Eating in San Francisco: Bi-Rite Creamery

By Marissa Guggiana, Drew Lazor,Meg Zimbeck Travels

Credit: Bi-Rite Creamery

Bi-Rite Market in the Mission District had such positive feedback about their house-made ice cream, they decided to open a creamery down the block from their bustling little grocery store. They throw frozen-treat parties with local products made from the Straus Family's organic dairy farm in all manner of titillating flavors. Grab a cone of, say, honey lavender and loll through the hip, café-drenched neighborhood. And if you're feeling like you need to make ice cream tonight, then we've got some recipes for honey ice cream and banana pudding ice cream.

Marissa Guggiana is a Bay Area local, the president of Sonoma Direct Sustainable Meats, and an editor with Meatpaper magazine.