As we learned in November, Portland's celebrated Salt & Straw ice cream is set to open two locations in San Francisco this spring, its first in the Bay Area following an expansion to Southern California over the last year. Now today we learn the address of the Hayes Valley location via Inside Scoop: 580 Hayes, i.e. in the new condo building where the former Hayes & Kebab was, at Laguna.
You can expect to get your Pear & Blue Cheese, and Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons cones there starting in May, after the building is completed, but first to open will be their upper Fillmore Pac Heights location, at 2201 Fillmore Street, set to open in March.
Salt & Straw only opened about five years ago in Portland and now has three popular locations there, with four more that have popped up around Los Angeles.
Each location gets some site-specific flavors, and here in SF they expect to find inspiration from local produce and such. A series of December preview pop-ups via their ice cream truck offered dollar scoops of Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons, Chocolate Gooey Brownie, Peppermint Cocoa, Gingerbread Cookie Dough, and Silencio Black Tea & Coconut Stracciatella.
To check out their full menu of quirky offerings, look here.
Previously: Portland's Salt & Straw Ice Cream Arrives In SF For Pop-Ups Next Week, Opening Two SF Shops In 2017