SF Ice Cream

The best ice cream in San Francisco happens to have Filipino influence. This is the famous Mitchell's Ice Cream is a favorite in San Francisco and a lot of people probably don't know that certain flavors like Mango, Ube (yam) and Macapuno (from coconut) are Filipino favorite. We tasted these and theirs are even better than those in the Philippines, with probably few exceptions like Sebastian's. But that's another story for another post.

We accidentally found the place where we had Mitchell's after getting curious about some signs around the cannery during our walk back to our hotel. We remembered our friends recommending Mitchell's and it was part of our to-do list during that part of our vacation. The small ice cream shop is Norman's, named after its proprietor who happens to be Filipino. He runs the shop with his wife and they seem to have many regulars in their shop by the way they greeted people. We had a good chat with them as we ate our ice cream.

The ice cream shop was located at the Cannery, a huge building that hosted several establishments including our hotel.

Ice cream flavors and other offerings at Norman's who's affiliated with Mitchell's. Notice the "halo-halo" sign?

Norman's is just a couple minutes from our hotel. That's Norman in white cleaning the windows.

Mitchell's is definitely excellent ice cream and Norman's is where to get it when you're in the Fisherman's Wharf area. We hope for them to become fixtures at the Cannery and look forward to our next visit.