The Ice Creamist

Each year our Congressman from Oregon, Earl Blumenauer, personally bakes hundreds of fruitcakes for the holiday season and hand delivers them to friends and associates throughout Portland. They call the...

We are so proud to be partnering with Urban Gleaners this holiday season. When you buy a pint of our Thanksgiving flavors, we'll donate one to their Food to Schools...

October is here, Fall is here, short days, good tv, basketball practice, wool blankets, blood moons... Happy Halloween boys and ghouls! I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and have...

We’ve been celebrating the opening of TriMet’s new Orange Line all month long with a special flavor in our Portland scoop shops dedicated to the Orange Line called Bitter Orange...

Last week we were named as one of The Oregonian’s Top Workplaces. It’s our second year on this list and it’s one of our biggest honors because it’s based on...

For ten days in September, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) sets the stage for visual artists and performers from all around the world to present their newest works,...

[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="http://saltandstraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SaltStraw-30sec-v2.mp4"][/video] Our generation’s mark on the Portland bridge infatuation. The Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People, takes Bridgetown’s total count of river spanning structures to twelve! And this one...

Thomas Lauderdale first invited me to the Oregon Symphony in the mid-nineties. Watching him play the piano with the entire Symphony on stage is transfixing. My love for their music...

Four years and three months ago, my cousin Tyler and I rolled our little ice cream push cart onto the patio in front of Portland’s Aviary restaurant and Barista coffee...

Sunday, July 19th is National Ice Cream Day and this year there are two more reasons to join in the festivities. Our new July “Berries, Berries, Berries” menu is now...

This month’s menu is a little different to most. We are working with four elementary schools near each of our scoop shops to curate this set of flavors. The schools...