The 10 Most Instagrammed Ice Creams in Vancouver

By Vitamin Daily

Just us, or is it warm out? This heatwave has changed our outlook on life. For one, our initial priority upon entering the office is no longer "Emails!" but rather "Construct polar vortex out of all the fans. Every fan. Steal boss’s fan. Consider expensing more fans to company account. Spritz face with camomile water from Whole Foods." It’s also influenced our Social Media habits, i.e., all we wanna do is look at pretty photos ice cream and dream about what cold, refreshing treats to hunt down next. It seems like we’re not alone; we’ve seen a deluge of beautiful local ice cream shots lately, and want to share the lust. Flip through for our slideshow of Vancouver’s Most Instagrammed Ice Cream, and prepare swoon.

• La Casa Gelato

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  With 218 flavours on location and only the finest ingredients in the churners (including kimchi, seaweed and wasabi for the bold) La Casa Gelato is a true crowd-pleaser. Add the Pepto-pink paint job outside and you’ve got an irresistible Instagram opportunity.

• Twisted Ice Cream

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  New on the Gastown scene, Twisted Ice Cream specializes in vanilla soft-serve sexed-up with whatever drizzles and toppings your heart desires (they change ’em up, adding new treats weekly). We recommend the Blue Hawaii coconut drizzle with cookie crumbles; it’s just what you need to endure that arduous walk to the beach.

• Earnest Ice Cream

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  Earnest Ice Cream boasts a unique feel and different flavours in each of its locations (we love the Cardamom at their Olympic Village outpost!). You can even buy these reusable pint-jars of ice cream in independent shops and restaurants around Vancouver; just grab one an swipe a spoon, too. 

• Soft Peaks

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  Soft Peaks takes ice cream to new heights by serving Vancouver’s only local, organic-milk soft-serve. Try their signature swirl ‘Honeycomb Peak’ served with a piece of local honeycomb on top. Gooey, frosty, melty perfection.

• Beta 5

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  Famous for their cream puffs, chocolates and pastries, come July 1st Beta 5 is serving up weekly feature sundaes, ice cream and sorbet scoops along with their highly sought after ice cream sandwiches. All summer long this sweet shop will be hosting ice cream socials (yes, this is a thing) every Friday and Saturday ’till September. Get your social on! 

• Rain or Shine

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  This is a one-stop shop for ice cream any day of the week, no matter the weather conditions. Test out the tasty Taco Tuesday (how’s that for alliteration) and indulge with your choice of scoops of flavours such as coconut chocolate chunk, honey lavender and coffee toffee topped with cream and sauce, and served in a waffle (taco) shell. You’re welcome. 

• Sushinori

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  If you think Sushinori isn’t really an ice cream joint, well… you’re correct. But that doesn’t undermine the glory of their Matcha Parfait. Complete with soft serve matcha and black sesame ice cream topped with corn flakes, whipped cream, jelly, lil’ cookies, gummies, mallows and various other delightful sundries, his unique concoction is as good as it looks.

• Brown Paper Packages

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  Locally-sourced ingredients, abundant flavour options, crisp cookies and sweet, sweet ice cream; Brown Paper Packages is more than a few of our favourite things. Pick ’em up at retailers like Pazzo Chow or order them online (we’d suggest getting married as an excuse to have them CATER YOUR WEDDING. Which they do! Amazing). 

• Glenburn Soda Fountain

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  Damn right, it’s better than yours. Basically everything at ye-olde style Soda Shoppe Glenburn Soda Fountain renders the ubiquitous "blessed" hashtag accurate. Their rotating banana split special could make a grownup weep. 

• Purdy’s Ice Cream Bar

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  Our true love: The Purdy’s double-dip sprinkles bar. Something about a mouthful of crunchy sugar rainbow is just so ridiculously crave-able. That bite! That melt! That time when our office was across the street from Purdy’s and it became a total issue! Anyway, this is what unicorns eat in heaven.