Bi-Rite Creamery Opens 11/25!

Bi-Rite Creamery
3692 18th Street @ Dolores
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-626-5600

OK, ice cream fanatics, I just got word (thanks Baba!) that Bi-Rite Market is opening a creamery. Very exciting! Bi-Rite is a wonderful little family-owned market that sells restaurant-quality prepared foods, organic produce, sustainably raised meats, poultry, and seafood, as well as fine wines and everyday groceries. Bi-Rite has served the Mission district since 1940, and has been under the ownership of the Mogannam family since 1964. In 1997, the Mogannam sons, Sam and Raphael, took over the store and modeled it after the great specialty markets of Manhattan.

The Creamery will be located across the street from the market who will be its first wholesale customer. Plans include supplying other restaurants and markets in the future.

Bi-Rite Creamery will be the first ice cream shop in the city to focus on organic, local, and sustainable ingredients and packaging; all ice creams will be made with products from Straus Family Creamery. The flavors are exotic: 16th Street honey lavender (using honey from hives on 16th Street), Laloo’s Sonoma goat yogurt, chai spiced milk chocolate, Blue Moon strawberry, pixie tangerine, salted caramel, roasted banana. These flavors bring to mind the fantastic organic creamery in Fairfax (for which I have been known to make major, inconvenient detours).

They will also be selling ice cream sandwiches, popsicles, ice cream cakes, hot chocolate, confections, and baked goods. But it doesn't sound like they're doing anything in an ordinary way.  For example the ice cream sandwiches will be made with coconut macaroon, mango lemon verbena will be a flavor of popsicle, and their ice cream cake will feature pumpkin ice cream with crystallized ginger and candied pumpkin seeds atop a ginger spice cake base. Yum!

Bi-Rite pastry chefs Anne Walker and Kris Hoogerhyde, along with Market owner Sam Mogannam, are partners in the venture. Local designer James Lagoc, who also designed the restaurant NoPa, helped envision the look and feel of the space. The store’s interior renovated from a former office, continues the theme of sustainability by incorporating reclaimed and salvaged materials. I can't wait!

Winter Hours of Operation
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday, Saturday: 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Closed on Wednesdays.

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For more information, see http://biritecreamery.com/