Fifty Licks Ice Cream

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Pechluck Laskey

Im trying to remember how long I have been loving Fifty Licks ice cream. I think it might have been when they first opened, since I have a photo in 2010 of their Red Bull Cola Ice Cream, I wrote in the captions that the Stumptown Coffee and Tahitian Vanilla were excellent, and was particularly loving the bacon bit parts of their Maple Bacon. I called it then "wonderful shake-ups to normal ice cream." Even though coffee and vanilla sound plain, they were bursting with flavor, and you could notice and appreciate the high quality ingredients. I like how the French custard style makes their product so creamy and soft. Recently (this past August), they opened up a brick and mortar location at 2021 SE Clinton at 21st, just down a door from St. Jack, and also easily walkable from SE Division or Powell if the other offerings on SE Clinton arent enough options. This sounds like a PERFECT end of a dinner for me. They are just a cute, clean crisp little bright spot. It turns out the Fifty Licks is more than just an Ice Cream Parlor. Besides offering the following ice cream flavors and sorbets. You can also get Fifty Licks sorbet cocktails and Cafe Cubano. So it can be your stop before and after dinner! They have twelve rotating flavors of scooped ice creams and sorbets. The flavors will continually be updated/rotated, based on what mad genius comes to fruition for the Fifty Licks imagination + execution testing! All you need to know is that Chad is a mad genius, and you cannot go wrong with any flavor you pick. Example ice cream flavors for instance might include (remember these will rotate based on seasonal ingredients/new ideas!): Stumptown Coffee Tahitian Vanilla Toasted Milk Jasmine Tea with Apricot Caramelized Apple Cherry Bourbon Jasmine Rice with Fragrant Pandan Raspberry Blood Orange Screamscle Maple with Bacon Single Malt Scotch Sorbet flavors for instance might include: Coconut Lemon Saffron Passionfruit with Sichuan Peppercorns Grapefruit with Rosewater Rhode Island Style Frozen Lemonade Chocolate with Toasted Oat Milk You can select a gluten-free waffle cone, and toppings such as Ghost Pepper salt, bee pollen, sweet corn dust, potato chips, Ovaltine, who knows what they might have! They do not have a liquor license or full bar (since that would require them serving food, which is more than this little ice cream parlor can handle in their space), but the few cocktails they do offer are so exquisite and Im not sure why you would want anything else. These are so sophisticated I dont know why they arent currently on a Bon Appétit or Saveur cover, they are so beautiful. On the other hand, maybe by June of next year, they will be... They offer a happy hour on their sorbet cocktails from 4-6 pm daily.

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Stephanie Bianco

I was genuinely looking forward to Fifty Licks opening, especially since it is so close to where I live. I walked by a couple nights ago and saw a bunch of people going in out and was excited to see that they were finally open, not to mention the flavors on their beautiful signage looked amazing! Tonight after work I decided to walk by and try it out, already unsure of which of the amazing sounding flavors to chose from. I even saw their huge signs walking up about their grand opening this Friday and thought it was cool that they were having a little celebration too. It looked like they were maybe closed for the night so before I even attempted to open the door I mouthed to the people inside asking if they were open. Because we all know how annoying it is for someone to walk in when youre closing shop, so I was trying to be polite which is my nature. A man opened the door and in the most rude possible way he snarks "What does the sign say?!" And trust me, his body language was not any better than his tone of voice. As I apologetically said the grand opening is Friday but some businesses open and have a celebration after the fact, I could barely finish my sentence as he slammed the door shut and turned away. This really sucks because I was looking forward to coming here so much. Now I will not support this business and encourage others not to either. To the rude man who may or may not be the owner but is definitely representing the company, even if you were tired and had a long day you could have been a lot nicer and now youre losing business before you even open.

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Anthony Alvior

Fifty Licks has a fun variety of flavors of ice cream to choose from, and you can tell that its quality creamy ice cream. Some of the flavor names are funny like "Chocolate as @!#$@" and "Vanilla as @#$#@#". Its funny to hear people filling in the blanks when they order. When you come in, there is someone to greet you and give you a chance to sample any of the flavors before making your decision. They were all so good that it was hard for me to decide, but I did end up going with the Thai Rice ice cream (creamy jasmine rice pudding infused with Pandan). Where else can you get something like that? They do have truly unique flavors and the staff is there to help you make your decision. I also liked the fact that there wasnt a very long line for me to wait in to order. Its a small cozy place with seating inside and out. Or you can take your ice cream to go as you wander the area. Keep in mind that the ice cream is a little on the expensive side, but it could be justifiable with their unique and delicious flavors.

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Mariah Denman

First came here during Ramadan for a late night ice cream fix and loved the clever flavor varieties, the cuban coffee, and the friendly/chill staff--even if the line is long they never rush you to make a decision and will let you try as many flavors as you want! Last week I stopped by to pick up some pints for my mom who is a cancer patient right now. When she was healthy we used to go there after work/school. I mentioned that to the guy behind the counter and he made some recommendations, let me try some new flavors, and he revealed that he did the cancer treatment dance with his dad, including trips to get ice cream (cancer patients need calories and comfort!). It was a cold rainy night, so it was just him and I in the shop, so we chatted and sympathized with each other. Turns out that guy was the owner. It was a blessing to have such a genuine interaction with him. Salt & Straw is fun and all but this place is where the realness happens.

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luna lol

my aunt, uncle, cousins and I walked here on a really hot day after practicing some music, and we were kind of tired and wanted to relax and have some ice cream. it was our first time going. the service was very good and they were nice, its decorated well, and it was over all good. but at first I got the carmalized honey flavor and thought it was too sweet for me. I got another scoop after that to see if I liked something else, so I had the grapefruit rose sorbet. it had a very nice flavor and I liked it, but it was pretty sour (as I should have expected). I think Ill go again some time, because I might not have got the best flavors for me personally but Im sure the others are great and thats just my taste. I can tell that they like or love what they do so props for that

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