Cape Town · ice cream
Unframed Ice Cream
Unframed is the most externally recognised Cape Town ice-cream brand found in this research (an international 'world's best' placement, the only African entry on that list) and its on-site production and named specialist recipe developer are documented by more than one independent local source, not just its own marketing.
What to order
Blue Coconut (made with blue spirulina) — singled out by name in the Big 7 Travel citation quoted in Cape Town press
What we know
- Founder left an investment-banking career in New York after visiting Cape Town in 2015; opened the first shop on Kloof Street in August 2016
- Production 'lab' visible directly behind the counter — churning, mixing and freezing all observable in-store, per Cape Town Magazine's original profile
- Imports cream specifically from France and worked with 'renowned French ice cream master' Stephane Auge as product/recipe developer
- Named by Big 7 Travel as 'Best Ice Cream Parlour' worldwide in 2019, the only African entry on that list of 50 — reported locally by Cape Town blogger Chris von Ulmenstein
- Purpose-built Woodstock flagship (187 Sir Lowry Road) with a visible 'ice-cream laboratory', opened as the brand's third Cape Town location by January 2020
- Status
- open
- Address
- 45C Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town
- Maker
- Yann Rey, founder; Stephane Auge credited as product/recipe developer
- Opened
- 2016
- Website
- www.unframedicecream.com/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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