Steamer’s Ice Cream Bar

This place seemed pretty sweet. Little ice cream counter attached to a bigger restaurant. Should’ve remembered I was in tourist central, and not in Pike’s Market!
When you have to force yourself to finish and ice cream cone… incredible. If you are at the waterfront, skip this one!

The Mountain Huckleberry is yummy… fruity and creamy. The sample spoonful of Coffee Almond Fudge was too full of almonds for my taste. My single scoop was pretty generous, so think twice before getting a double scoop. Not a bad treat for one of those rare warmer days in Seattle.

I went after dinner nearby. The place was so filthy, I decided to pass. Maybe it was a long day with tons of tourists, but it was just too unclean looking for me to trust anything served from there.

The flavors were basic (which is fine with me) and the prices were great. 2 big scoops in a waffle cone for $ 4! And the ice cream was great!

There were a lot of people going down the road with this ice cream, and a huge line when we got to the ice cream bar, so my family decided to try this place out.
The ice cream here was just okay. The ice cream was creamy enough, and the freshly made waffle cones were okay, though not the best. The flavors offered were vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, huckleberry, mint chocolate chip, butter pecan, cookies n cream, and coffee almond fudge. I tried the vanilla, which didn’t have much of a vanilla flavor, strawberry and huckleberry, which were okay, and butter pecan, which was pretty decent. I wound up buying the butter pecan in a waffle cone, which came out to $ 3.25. It was a decent price, but I wouldn’t have gotten this cone in such cold weather had I known what the ice cream and waffle tasted like.

Claiming the storefront of Steamer’s Seafood Café, Steamer’s Ice Cream Bar is a great way to cool down a hot day in Seattle, or acclimate on a cold day in Seattle.
To find the store, just follow the smell of their freshly made waffle cones. Their cones smell, and taste, like any other typical waffle cone you might find at, say, Cold Stone, but they do come with a unique shape. It’s actually kind of brilliant. To prevent any dripping at the bottom of the cone, they invert the bottom so that the cone itself catches all the melting ice cream. Pretty ingenious, I say, and it gets rid of any annoyances that come with needing a paper cone or a napkin to do the job. Maybe it was because the weather was a bit cold, but my cone didn’t seem as fresh as it could have. It was still good though.
The ice cream itself is limited to a daily batch of eight flavors. I had the Mountain Huckleberry and the Coffee Almond Fudge. The Mountain Huckleberry took me back to the days of making homemade ice cream at summer camp with a bucket of ice and a hand crank. After a long day mountain climbing or hiking through the woods, making ice cream was one of my favorite activities. The flavors there were usually strawberry or vanilla, but I imagine if we used huckleberry, it would have tasted just as refreshing and creamy. The Coffee Almond Fudge was a bit too sweet for me, but the mix of those three flavors were really good. I’m also not the biggest coffee ice cream fan, but my love for fudge made me think to give it a try.
All in all, the flavor’s here are pretty dependable, and most of the samples I tried were also really creamy, in a good way. I wouldn’t fight a bear to get a ride down to Steamer’s Ice Cream Bar, but I would definitely stop by if I was in the area.
GET: Mountain Huckleberry