San Francisco · ice cream
Bi-Rite Creamery
The shop that made Straus organic dairy and named-farm seasonality the default expectation for San Francisco ice cream, not just a good version of it. It has kept the same production model for twenty years and documents its own history, including the year it closed for a mandated seismic retrofit and ran a solar ice cream truck to keep serving its neighbourhood.
What to order
Salted Caramel, described on the business's own site as a signature flavor alongside Balsamic Strawberry
What we know
- First ice cream shop to build its base on Straus Family Creamery's organic milk, cream and eggs, sourced from a named dairy 45 miles north of the city, since 2006
- All recipes made from scratch on site; the 2019 seismic retrofit closure is documented on the business's own history page, including the solar-powered ice cream truck used to keep serving during it
- Menu built around seasonal California produce sourced from local farmers, with rotating flavors tied to the season
- Neighbourhood-to-institution arc traceable across 80-plus years: the 1940 Cordano brothers' market, the Mogannam family's 1964 purchase, and the Creamery opening under the founding pastry chefs in 2006
- Straus Family Creamery is independently notable as the first 100% certified organic creamery in the United States, per Bi-Rite's own sourcing page
- Status
- open
- Address
- 3692 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
- Maker
- Anne Walker and Kris Hoogerhyde, pastry chefs who began selling their ice cream through Bi-Rite Market in 2002 and opened the Creamery in 2006
- Opened
- 2006
- Website
- biritemarket.com/creamery/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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