Los Angeles · ice cream
Wanderlust Creamery
A named Filipino-American chef building an entire flavour programme as a personal travel-and-heritage map rather than a generic seasonal rotation, with a decade of continuous operation and press attention (Wikipedia's White Rabbit collaboration, the Bretman Rock Filipino American History Month flavour) as evidence the identity is sustained, not a launch-week gimmick.
What to order
Ube malted crunch (LAist, 2026)
What we know
- Founded August 2015 by husband-and-wife team Adrienne Borlongan and Jon-Patrick Lopez, first as a Smorgasburg LA booth, then a Tarzana storefront — both inside the City of Los Angeles (Wikipedia, sourced to multiple press citations)
- Borlongan's grandfather worked for Magnolia, a leading ice cream brand in the Philippines, and many flavours — including the best-selling ube malted crunch — are drawn from her Filipino-American heritage (LAist, 2026; Wikipedia)
- Flavours are explicitly built around Borlongan's own travel and heritage rather than a house style: Thai sticky rice and mango, Japanese-inspired matcha/hojicha/black sesame, Middle Eastern ashta (LAist, 2026)
- Every menu item at the Atwater Village shop names its inspiration to staff, who are trained to walk customers through the flavour map before ordering (LAist, 2026)
- Status
- open
- Address
- 3134 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039
- Maker
- Adrienne Borlongan (founder and chef, food scientist by training) and Jon-Patrick Lopez (co-founder)
- Opened
- 2015
- Website
- wanderlustcreamery.com/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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