Seattle Freeze

For those of you who don’t know – the “Seattle Freeze” is something all transplants all joke about here in the Pacific Northwest. According to this belief, Seattleites are polite… but not particularly friendly.

Have you lived in the same apartment for a year, but never met a single neighbor in the building? Seattle Freeze.

When people get into the same elevator as you (at home or work), do they avoid eye contact and not say hello? Seattle Freeze.

Luckily the confection shop known as Seattle Freeze gives this expression a much sweeter definition!

The shop just opened in the historic Georgetown neighborhood this summer. It is a cute small space peppered with art from local artists – all for sale.

They have a menu of soft serve creations and rotating donut flavors. Each soft serve was made to order! They took out pre-portioned packages and placed them into their Seattle Freeze Machine along with your mix-in of choice.

They offer a few different “traditional” soft serve ice cream flavors, as well as 3 pretty unique ones.

We opted to try the more unique flavors, and asked for a taste of the Black Sesame, Green Matcha, and Ube. I am a sucker for all things Ube so I decided to double up and get the Ube waffle cone as well.

The Ube soft serve was delicious! It had a smooth and creamy texture, and almost a mild “milk at the bottom of the cereal bowl” taste to it. Therefore, we thought Captain Crunch would be a perfect mix-in and topping. The Machine really pulverizes the cereal so you can only see tiny specs of it in the ice cream, but we could still taste it. The flavors worked together quite well. The one negative was that the ice cream melts very quickly (and I’m already a fast ice-cream eater).

The Ube Waffle Cone was also very good. It had a mild Ube taste to it and was very thin and perfectly crispy. It held up well to the ice cream and did not get soggy. There was even a surprise at the very bottom – with a marshmallow hiding below a chocolate coating. I thought this was genius, because I hate it when a waffle cone leaks out the bottom. The ice cream did keep leaking out the vertical seem on the cone, but I am pretty shameless when eating ice cream. I managed to let none go to waste.

This little shop also serves some unique donut flavors. We did try three flavors: Matcha Orea, Ube Custard (of course), and Pineapple Li Hing Mui. I thought the ice cream was really the highlight. The flavors were bolder than the donut flavors and their method was unique.

This is definitely a must-try shop, so quit being so Seattle – introduce yourself to that new face in the office – and see if they want to make a trek down to Georgetown to check out the NEW Seattle Freeze.