La Copa Loca

I don’t even know what I just tried to eat?
I ordered a single scoop of pistachio gelato. (I use pistachio as the yardstick of tasting the quality of gelato from the excellent stuff I’ve had in Italy). What I received was not only not gelato, it was just a scoop of cold unflavored ice milk textured frozen confection. There was NO FLAVOR. It was very weird.
La Copa Loca really shouldn’t serve this (non) flavor. Hopefully the other flavors are better and have an actual gelato consistancy.
And note to the owners: Please book the next flight to Caltagirone, Sicily if you want to taste true pistachio gelato. Or if you are up north, any gelato in Lucca. Then you will see that what you serve doesn’t even classify as gelato.
grazie

After my trip to Italy last year, I’ve been dying to find a spot that serves gelato as smooth and creamy like they did. La Copa Loca comes SO close! They have a bunch of flavors and are open late-​ish. I really enjoyed the sesame gelato and would totally be back to try the rest of the flavors.

Where have I’ve been all this time and not notice La Copa Loca delicious sorbet goodness?
This place is quite amazing with their unique flavors of ice cream, gelato, and S-​O-​R-​B-​E-​T!!!
It’s less than $ 5, dirty cheap!
I am in love with their dragon fruit and passion fruit flavor sorbet. Give it a whirl and you can thank me later.
What are you waiting for? Go uh!
I do hope you give this ice cream treat a try. Cheers!

This weekend while wandering through the Mission District I found myself with a hankering for Gelato. This eventually led me to La Copa Loca. Being a Tiramisu lover I ordered a 20 Oz Tiramisu milkshake. It didn’t quite taste like Tiramisu to me but it was tasty nonetheless. I think part of the reason is that the Tiramisu I usually have generally had an alcohol component such as Amaretto and this didn’t. I didn’t really taste coffee in its place either. However, I tasted the cream and lady fingers. Regardless of the recipe being outside my tastebuds’ usual range I still enjoyed it and would stop by again the next time I am in the area.

La Copa Loca had a great variety of gelato flavors. I stopped by earlier today while my boyfriend was getting his haircut next door, and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the gelato I sampled. They have cool tropical flavors like soursop and dragon fruit as well as classic flavors like chocolate and pecan.
I ended up getting the panna cotta and passion fruit gelato — it was creamy and sweet with a hint of tanginess. It wasn’t super sour as most passion fruit flavored foods are which was fantastic. A definite must try if you’re in the area.

Perfect gelato place in the heart of the Mission. Came here after a big meal and was not really craving anything heavy for dessert. What to eat? Gelato!
La Copa Loca means the «crazy cup» in Spanish, and serves up a pretty mean cup of gelato. There are many different flavors from the typical mango or pistachio to more exotic flavors like soursop and dragonfruit. As with any food joint, La Copa Loca caters to the local taste with all the wonderful assortment of fruit flavors that can be typically found in tropical Central and South America. ¡Qué rico!
I had two scoops of gelato– one kiwi and one blood orange, both of which were rich in flavor but not overly sweet. I also sampled a few other flavors such as the soursop and dragon fruit too, which weren’t overly seer either. I don’t like my ice cream or gelato that is too sweet, so I was definitely pleased with the sweetness level of the gelato here.
Overall I had a great first gelato experience here. I liked the variety of flavors (both usual and unusual) to both sample and eat. If you’re feeling adventurous and want to try some exotic fruit flavor gelatos, come here!
Buen provecho!

What’s there to say? This place is straight dope. I get the ¾ kilo every 1 – 2 weeks. Load up on their sorbet.
Coconut gelato and sour cherry are out of this world.

Love this place. Always a huge variety of flavors. Friendly staff = five stars. Conveniently located right down the street from my bank, I can’t walk past the place without going in. And they are vegan friendly with a huge assortment of sorbets as well as gelato. Mixed berry and passionfruit are my favorites. Can’t recommend this place enough!

el café rifa… very good coffee too… the kiddies like the gelato, while i just stick with the mud…

We found this place by luck! (Was parked across the street) What a find! My boys and I all had the crepes. They were so good!!! A big plus… friendly customer service! My kids and I can’t wait to come back!

Sadly this is the closest gelato to my house. Best part is the option of a toddler size for 2 bucks. I was just in Italy and this is what they would call «fake» or air pumped gelato. It had the wrong texture completely and the infamous mounds. Sorry!

Pitaya con coco at La Copa Loca! Another locally family owned gelato shop on the mission. Mauro and his family make their own gelato! Check them out on 22^nd and Capp!

Really really really friendly staff here! Love the flavor choices and taste hits the spot! (I got yogurt milk & mixed Berries) Good price too. Try them out!

First time here with the family and it’s awesome. Definitely will come back here. I don’t like gelatos but this one made it a good experience.

Is this heaven?
Nop, it’s just a Nutella&Banana crêpe with ice cream.
I got here looking for dessert after a fairly poor dinner. I love that it’s not only a plain ice cream shop!
I’m coming back to try one of their desserts.

La Copa Loca’s luscious nutella gelato and waffle cones get it done.
Knowing that you didn’t have to wait in a ridonkulous Bi-​rite-​esque line to get your fix?
EVEN SWEETER.

This place is by far the best ice cream store in town! I come here regularly but this is actually the first review I give, after like 10 visits!
They have all kind of favor, especially the tart kind! So hard to find ice cream that isnt too sweet that will rot your teeth, so this is definitely my to go place. Plus all the fruit favor are amazing!
Recommend the dragonfruit, lemon, and tart, if you are more into sour taste.

The gelato and sorbet are both pretty good.
They also give you free tasting, so explore before you buy!

La Copa Loca’s got some real unique gelato flavors. Tiramasu? Rum raisin? I can dig it.
Their cash-​only policy kind of stings, but getting a one-​scoop cone clocks in at around $ 3 — not too bad overall when the gelato is this well made.

Delicious gelato — dangerous that this place is so close to our place. I’ve heard this place actually sources gelato to numerous nice restaurants in SF; we haven’t had it out, but instead get it straight from the source.
All of the flavors we’ve tried have been delicious. My favorites to date have been pistachio (always a favorite of mine) and the café/​coffee flavors.
My husband and I are huge gelato fans; we even took a gelato making class in NYC for fun. We had learned that if you truly want to know whether a place makes good, authentic gelato, you should request to taste their pistachio flavor. Because it’s one of the more expensive flavors to make (due to the high price of the pistachios), many places don’t use the actual nuts, but instead use artificial ingredients to «mock» the taste. This place’s gelato was creamy, delicious, had a great flavor, and yes — you called it — tasted just like you popped one of those delicious little green nuts in your mouth.
Highly recommend. Just a note — we’ve found the gelato doesn’t do so great if you freeze it at home; we’ve gotten the larger «to-​go» containers for nights we’ve had people over to serve alongside cake/​desserts. While still tasty, the texture isn’t as good once it’s been refrozen. I’d recommend just getting a single serving and gobbling it up straight away :)

Bottom line at the top: gummy gelato, but they have unique flavors.
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They do a great job of clearly labeling gluten free, dairy free, sugar free, etc. Had the hazelnut and it was just okay.
They definitely have unique flavors but this city has better gelato and ice cream (Humphry, smitten)

We got excited, Bi-​Rite Creamery was closed but this place sounded cool!
The flavors were hard to read because everything said «GLUTEN FREE» underneath. I think 2 flavors had gluten… we aren’t surprised that the lemon sorbet is gluten free…
I got a small coffee and chocolate. The prices were great, but the gelato was not. It took a while to realize, but it just wasn’t very flavorful and there were ice crystals-​as if they had watered it down somehow.

I came here over an hour and a half before closing and they had already started to clean up and take out gelato for the night.
I had 4 – 5 samples but nothing really was outstanding but I also didn’t want to be that moocher so i got some chocolate kind and it was just okay. Maybe i came on a off day or maybe this place is overrated who knows.

After having dinner nearby, my friends and I wandered to La Copa Loca for some dessert. We came in about 15 minutes before closing and there was one person working behind the counter. She was really impatient with us because we weren’t making our minds fast enough and I’m sure she wanted to close up shop.
Anyways, La Copa Loca offers a lot of different gelatos and sorbets. I tried the white chocolate mint, dragon fruit, and pineapple. I really liked the dragon fruit sorbet, but the sample that I tried was really chunky. I ended up getting a single scoop of pineapple sorbet in a sugar cone because the sample I tried was smoother. The pineapple sorbet had a light pineapple flavor and not overly sweet. For the most part, my sorbet was smooth, but there were some big icy chunks.
When I paid for the desserts my friends and I got, the receipt machine ran out of paper, which made the worker helping me out even more impatient. When she finally figured out how to reload the receipt paper correctly, there was no line for me to sign for my credit card and she just told me to sign somewhere on the receipt. I thought that was unprofessional in my opinion and her friends standing around, waiting for her to get off of work didn’t help either.

After having dinner nearby, my friends and I decided to grab dessert. I consulted my handy Unilocal app and found La Copa Loca!
So how much did I love their ice cream?! So much that I didn’t even take a pic of what I ordered! I did, however, manage to take pix of their display cases.
July 2013
Ice cream case
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Great gelato. Great selection. I will be back!

I ordered a hazelnut gelato. It was good and melted very quickly. I don’t think it was anything out of the ordinary, though.

Los elados son Rico’s nomas las personas q atienden son muy serias, estuve con mis amigos Por ahi y la Verdad no me senti comodo con el servicio