I can eat ice cream anytime. And apparently, my daughter has inherited the gene.
We’d just stepped out of Swank and were getting into our car when she saw Kettle Creek Creamery just a few doors down—and immediately started getting back out. Later, she said, “Well, what would you do if you saw an ice cream shop sitting there all alone?”
Hard to argue with that logic.
Kettle Creek Creamery opened in the Commons at West Lake a little over a year ago. According to the server, it’s a family-owned business that got its start in Washington, Ga., crafting small-batch ice creams, gelatos and sorbets fresh every day.
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Which means its menu changes up regularly: During our visit, it featured 20 flavors: strawberry (as an ice cream and a sorbet), vanilla, Butterfinger, chocolate cookie dough (a fun twist with chocolate ice cream loaded with cookie dough!), butter pecan, peaches and cream, grape sorbet, apple pie (like vanilla ice cream and apple pie in every bite), chocolate velvet, golden Oreo crunch (dressed up with Health bits and white chocolate chips), cookie jar, banana pudding, dark chocolate espresso, cherry vanilla, Oreo cheesecake, chocolate alpine (mint chocolate ice cream plus Andes mints), coffee chip, cookie dough (this time it’s chocolate chip cookie ice cream with cookie dough), and Spaniard’s pistachio (with pistachios hand-ground in a mortar and pestle, then mixed with vanilla ice cream).
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The menu has the usual cones and cups, grab-n-go pints and quarts, milkshakes, and sauces and toppings. But it also has ice cream pies, specialty ice cream drinks and something called an “ice cream panini”: ice cream served on a brioche or pretzel bun, which is my kind of sandwich.
Just for the holidays, it’s also put together a 24-flavor ice cream advent calendar (cue heart eyes), available now for preorder. I was swooning over the flavors, which include many on the day’s menu but also Biscoff, bubble gum, triple berry sorbet, stracciatella, raspberry gelato, honey lavender, Persian, balsamic strawberry, lemon blueberry swirl, pumpkin praline and eggnog.
If you visit their Facebook page, you’ll see the many other specialty items and flavors the creamery regularly has available.
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And the taste? I let my daughter pick our flavor to share: Oreo cheesecake. We took our cup outside to sit at one of the tables (note, there’s no indoor seating). It was fresh, smooth, creamy, rich and sweet (but not too sweet), with plenty of freshly crushed Oreos in every bite. It was hands down the best cookies-and-cream ice cream I’d ever had.
My daughter agreed. As I went for the cup and a second bite, my daughter held it close, saying, “Excuse me, I’m trying to eat some really good ice cream here.”
Indeed.
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Kettle Creek Creamery
1030 West Lake Commons Dr., Suite 2, Martinez
Find them on Facebook
Ice cream cost: $3.75 to $8. Advent calendar is $60 for 24 flavors; preorder online.
