Looking to cool down on a sunny day with soft serve in Seattle?
There’s nothing like a cone of soft serve ice cream in the summer. Simple vanilla soft serve can hit the spot, but some soft serve Seattle spots get creative with unique flavors, toppings, and cones. And if you’re looking for vegan soft serve in Seattle, we found some options for you too.
Read on for our top soft serve ice cream spots in Seattle!
1. Milk Drunk, Beacon Hill
In addition to soft serve ice cream, Milk Drunk offers fried chicken, sandwiches, and cocktails. They also have a patio for enjoying your treats on a nice day. Some of their soft serve flavors are vegan! Keep in mind that they are closed on Mondays.
📍 2805 Beacon Avenue South
2. The Pastry Project, Pioneer Square
The Pastry Project doles out soft serve with creative toppings from a walk-up window in Pioneer Square. It’s typically only on Friday-Sunday for limited hours in the summer so don’t miss out!
📍165 South Main St
3. The Flora Bakehouse, Beacon Hill
Located in Beacon Hill, The Flora Bakehouse offers soft serve ice cream in addition to its usual menu of pastries and sandwiches. Their chocolate soft serve flavor is vegan, but if you’re down with butter, you can order your soft serve inside a croissant cone! They are open daily and offer the soft serve ice cream starting at noon.
📍 1511 S Lucile St
4. Spice Waala, Capitol Hill/Ballard/Columbia City
Spice Waala is known for their Indian street food as well as their soft serve. This is the place to get unique flavors of soft serve like lychee and rose cardamom—the flavors rotate regularly so follow along on Instagram so you don’t miss out. They have three locations around Seattle!
📍Capitol Hill: 340 15th Ave E
📍Ballard: 2008 NW 56th St
📍Columbia City: 5024 Rainier Ave S
5. Matcha Man, Georgetown
Located in Georgetown, Matcha Man is the place to get taiyaki ice cream in Seattle. Taiyaki is a Japanese fish-shaped cake. Here you can fill your fish-shaped cake cone with flavors like ube, matcha, and Thai tea—and vegan flavors as well!
📍 6014 12th Ave S
6. Kamp, Madison Valley
Kamp is a restaurant in Madison Valley that has delicious food and cocktails, plus a new seasonal flavor of soft serve every week! They have patio seating so if it’s really nice out you can enjoy your soft serve outside.
📍 2800 East Madison St
7. Hood Famous Bakeshop, Pioneer Square
Every summer we get excited for the seasonal ube and pandan soft serve at Hood Famous Bakeshop in Pioneer Square. They typically offer their soft serve on weekends between June and September.
📍 504 5th Ave S, Suite 107A
8. Temple Pastries, Central District
Temple Pastries in Seattle’s Central District offers some of the best pastries in the city. Then they opened a walk-up window in 2024 where you could order sandwiches and, in the summer, soft serve as well. They’ll be offering their soft serve again this May so be sure to try it.
📍 2524 S Jackson St
9. Indigo Cow, Wallingford
Indigo Cow is the first soft serve shop in the United States that uses Hokkaido milk from Japan. They rotate seasonal flavors and also offer fun toppings such as house-made fruit sauces. You’ll find it in Wallingford as well as a new location in Bellevue.
📍 1911 N 45th St
10. Many Bennies, Fremont
This new spot in Fremont offers fresh fruit soft serve blended to order using local fruit from Washington—plus you can’t beat ice cream with googly eyes. Find them right outside of Seattle Bouldering Project. Their soft opening hours for 2025 are 4:00 to 9:00 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. You can follow them on Instagram for updates.
📍 3535 Interlake Ave N
11. Baiten, Capitol Hill
You can get Instagram-worthy soft serve treats at Baiten, a Japanese dessert shop located in Tamari Bar in Capitol Hill. In addition to vanilla soft serve with syrup flavors like matcha and black sesame, you can get a loaded deluxe sundae, ice cream sandwiches, fruit sandwiches, and other desserts. They’re open from noon until late night daily except for Mondays when they’re closed.
📍 510 E Pine St