Salt & Straw

We were on a mission to find something sweet. I did not know they opened an Eataly in the mall, but the gelato line was long...and people were rude! Valley Fair has changed so much. Traci took us to a new area and there was Salt & Straw. What a life saver!These little boys had all met up in front for I think a birthday. As we walked to the entrance, I heard one yell let's go and get our ice cream and started running, and when he ran past me...Me: Heeeeeyyyy no cuts!Then I heard a parent tell him to stop. Laughing, I said I was only kidding, but the parents were great and said, "no, go ahead please." The young women inside were very friendly. I didn't need to sample everything like the couple ahead of us. I picked two flavors that sounded delicious and they were!Salt & Straw does an amazing job with flavors, for a chain. It's good to know there are other options!

I came here with my sister on a Saturday evening to end our shopping trip. There were only 2 people in front of us when we arrived so we didn't have to wait long. A younger mixed-gentleman with glasses helped us during our visit. He was not friendly at all and was very annoyed anytime we asked him questions about the flavors. I ordered a scoop of the Pear and Blue Cheese + a scoop of the Honey Lavender. A single scoop starts at $6.75. The Pear and Blue Cheese sounds like an odd combo, but it was surprisingly good as you can really only taste the pear. Nothing cheesy or funky at all. There are plenty of tables with chairs outside where you can enjoy your ice cream and people watch.

BOGO scoop today only 12-21-24.Pear & Blue Cheese: They candy Oregon bartletts to bring out their flavor, then fold in cave-aged crumbles of Rogue Creamery's blue cheese (voted best in the world) for a bold thwack. One of my favorite flavors here.Chocolate Gooey Brownie: For anyone who eats warm brownies right out of the pan. They fold fudgy chocolate-y brownie batter into intensely rich chocolate ice cream. My wife's favorite here.

Love the creative flavors at salt and straw! The arbequina olive oil flavor was creamy and had a light olive taste. For the limited edition almond brittle with salted ganache it was overall super tasty except the chocolate chunks were a bit too sweet. The workers let you try the flavors before you pick and they don't make you feel bad if you want to try a lot! There's no seating inside, but there plenty of seating outside or in the mall.

The line here gets long at times but when I went on a Friday night the line was surprisingly short! Service here is great, they are very patient with us trying out flavors and would even describe what's in them. We ultimately got the salted, malted chocolate chip cookie dough (3.5) and I personally am not a fan of cookie dough but still thought this was good. This was pretty sweet so I shared this with my bf and he liked it more but said that the salted sugar kinda tasted like dates.This is the type of place to try out unique flavors so I'll for sure come back to try something new!

One of my top ice cream stops. Always has interesting flavors and their classic flavors are always good and consistent. They had "Thanksgiving" inspired flavors but the only one I found good was the Parker house rolls with salted buttercream. A trick if you're indecisive and not a huge fan of sweets like I am, is to get a split single scoop, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Line is always long but goes by fast. Service was great. He let me try all of the special flavors.

This is a smaller store outside the Valley Fair Mall and they are very generous with samples. I tried the coffee and nuts which is my favorite flavor. I also love their snickerdoodle. The kids who work here are so sweet!

I'm not sure what changed but it seems like I'm no longer "allergic" to whatever was in it before, because I can actually taste the flavors now. I wasn't allergic in any way to ice cream anywhere else at the time of my previous reviews/tastings (or ever, really) but something in Salt and Straw's recipe would make my throat tingle regardless of the flavor. I haven't had any problems for the last few times we've gone this year. We tried the creepy crawly flavors from October 2024 but those are already gone so nothing I can add.We revisited for this month's Thanksgiving flavors and they're all exceptional! The sweet potato casserole apparently has a bit of alcohol (we were warned) but the coconut-oat milk and sweet potato flavor go perfectly together. The Parker House Rolls with salted buttercream is buttery and well-salted. I preferred the salt content in this one to the Turkey Stuffing and Cranberry Sage flavor - that one was a bit weirdly spiced (tasted like a mishmash of everything) but still tasty overall. For the Mom's mango pie, it might have been too cold out (we visited at around 6 PM) but the mango curd seemed to have become frozen mango chunks. The flavor was pretty tart. And overall that scoop was a lot more dense due to the lower temperature too.

Salt and Straw always has high quality ice cream with a bunch of unique flavors every month. I love seeing which ones they put out!The standard flavors that stay all year round are also really good. My favorites for the standard flavors are the chocolate gooey brownie and the snickerdoodle flavors.Service can be a hit or a miss here depending on the people. Lots of places to sit outside and enjoy the weather if it's nice out.

I walked in today for my first time and met the coolest employee (nick) he gave some bombb recommendations. 10/10 customer service. I'll definitely be coming again.