Salt & Straw Press Coverage

Seattle Times: Mushroom ice cream? Taffylike texture? Seattle’s ice-cream options are wider and weirder than ever

On a recent sunny day in the woods near Tiger Mountain, Salt & Straw co-founder Tyler Malek and his research and development specialist Sally Bowers wander the trails alongside foraging expert...

Life & Thyme: Foraging For Flavor With Salt & Straw

Peering over the cliff’s edge, the vast Pacific stretches out before me on a picture perfect day. It’s unusually clear for seven a.m. in April. Just north of Bodega but...

Life & Thyme: From Portland to Los Angeles

Given how Salt & Straw has come to epitomize Portland in a waffle cone, is it surprising that they’ve found a kindred spirit in Los Angeles, whose endless sunshine and swaying...

Food Republic: Master Your Cone at Home

Food Republic: Master Your Cone at Home Malek is the creative director of Salt & Straw, Portland's legendary artisanal ice cream shop (and soon to be in LA, too), which...

Portland Monthly: Frozen Frontier

How Salt & Straw captured the soul of a city, in an ice cream cone. What grows here, literally and spiritually, churns through these flavors: the entrepreneurial spirt, love of...

Bon Appetit: The Checklist

Cocktails by the Pint The June Summer Cocktail Series from ice cream gods Salt & Straw combines two things we love about Portland, OR: craft cocktails and a chill, collaborative...

Saveur, June/July 2014

Pineapple Honey Dorleac. Inspired by a popular cocktail from the nearby Expatriate bar, Salt & Straw creamery in Portland, Oregon, turns out this icy riff: a bittersweet honey-and-Aperol base with...

Thrillist: The 21 Best Ice Cream Shops in America

The 21 Best Ice Cream Shops In America Perhaps the only academic off-shoot on our list, S&S boasted an initial line of flavors created in OSU's Food Innovation Center using...

Food & Wine: Trend Spotting

Uni is the New Bacon Pairing uni with pimento d'Espelette and mint brings out its sweetness at Salt & Straw in Portland, OR.

Portland Business Journal

Orchid Awards: Entrepreneurs From an interview with Kim As our company has grown, my number one priority is focusing on staying connected to our shops, customers and teams. For me...

Kinfolk: City Guide

Check out Kinfolk's City Guide Photo Credit via Kinfolk, Photographed by Lisa Warninger Download PDF

Glamour

For serious foodies Put on a roomy dress and check out one of Portland's 475 food carts or more than 1,500 restaurants....honey balsamic strawberry with cracked pepper ice cream at...

Las Vegas Review Journal

Cold Snap Pear and Blue Cheese: The classic cheese board combo goes sweet.

The New York Times

I'll Have a Big Scoop of Beer, Please Some producers avoid iciness by keeping beer out altogether. Tyler Malek, the head ice-cream maker at Salt & Straw in Portland, Ore....

Huffington Post: The Best Summer Ice Cream

The Best Summer Ice Cream Flavors: Our Editors' Picks Love the bright strawberry flavor. Can't taste the peppercorn at all, but do get a subtle hint of balsamic on the...

Portland Tribune: Sustainable Life

If Portland were served on an ice cream cone, it just might be a scoop of Freckled Woodblock Chocolate. The purveyors of Salt & Straw ice cream dreamed up the...

Redbook

31 Days of Artisan Ice Cream The Portland-based shop sources local Oregon strawberries and honey to create an ice cream that is both sweet and tart. The addition of vinegar...

PDX Eater: Young Guns Semi-Finalist

Meet the Eater Young Guns Semi-Finalists: Tyler Malek Tyler and his cousin Kim Malek founded Salt & Straw in 2011, when it was just a small cart. Since then they...

KCRW: Good Food

Portland, The Mighty Gastropolis: An Edible Tour of Portland with Authors Karen Brooks and Teri Gelber Salt & Straw is an ice cream shop located in the food-centric Alberta neighborhood....

Portland Monthly: Phemon of the Year

We're serious: that's when culinary hunters begin the all-day frenzy at Sat & Straw, lining up like rock-concert hopefuls for a taste of something that confounds expectations of what a...

Whole Living

Not so Vanilla. Seasonal flavors like Bourbon Pecan Pie (and funky ones like Apple Cheddar Pie) make everyone scream for these West Coast Delights. Download PDF

Time

A perfect balance of sweet berries and zesty jam. Time Magazine speaking about Salt & Straw's Chèvre with marionberry habanero jam. Download PDF

GQ: The 10 Ice Cream Shops You Need to Visit

"Most fantastic ﬂavor: Honey Balsamic Strawberry with Cracked Pepper. Whoa!" The 10 Ice Cream Shops You Need to Visit

Alaska Airlines, July 2012

Regional ingredients from Willamette Valley farmers and Western Oregon purveyors are the cornerstone of the "farm-to-cone" desserts at Portland's Salt & Straw.

Bon Appetit: Pint Size Fun

Portland-based Salt & Straw adds a drop of vinegar and a hint of pepper to balance the sweetness in this strawberry shake, plus a splash of rum to make it...

The Oprah Magazine

Savory. Salt & Straw Arbequina Olive Oil. A sophisticated marriage of milky ice cream and the subtly peppery oil of the Arbequina olive. Download PDF

More: Indulge

Tantalizing treats to tempt all taste buds. Blue cheese ice cream? Trust us: delish! Plus other inventive flavors.

Portland Monthly, November 2011

Each scoop is wildly difference, bulging with luxurious texture, daring combinations, and an unmistakable taste of place.

Washington Post

The Oregonian

Northeast's Portland's Salt & Straw takes ice cream back to its roots Photo credits via:The Oregonian Photographs by: Motoya Nakamura To Malek's surprise, that little cart has become a...

The Wall Street Journal: Bits & Bites

As soon as the creamy pints were tested, we forgot all talk of local this or small-batch that. These scoops are so blissful there's no reason for Salt & Straw...