

Vanilla is typically always on offer, and other flavors include everything from chocolate and pistachio to vegan sorbettos, like black cherry, blood orange, strawberry, peach and blackberry. (46 Fox Chapel Road and 6425 Penn Ave. Alta Via’s soft serve gelato (available at both their Alta Via and Alta Via Pizzeria locations) is churned in-house daily, and each restaurant usually has two to three rotating flavors at any given time. Canal St.) Photo: Alta Via Alta Via and Alta Via Pizzeria They’re available seasonally, from late spring through early fall. (1500 S. Flavors change weekly, most often to match the beer that they have coming out that week, with recent flavors including Party in the Bedrock (fruity cereal, raspberry, strawberry, marshmallow, vanilla and beer), Limited Blend (coffee, peanut butter, chocolate and stout), and vanilla with IPA.

Carson St.) Photo: Hitchhiker Brewing Hitchhiker BrewingĪlcoholic soft serve is a food menu highlight at Hitchhiker Brewing’s Sharpsburg taproom. Some of their most popular soft-serve flavors include peanut butter, Fruity Pebbles, black raspberry, pistachio, strawberry shortcake, cookies ‘n cream, toasted coconut, and (for a limited time) blueberry, made with fresh blueberries. (4112 E. Is it even summer in Pittsburgh if you don’t get a cone at Page’s? This South Side institution has more than 30 flavors of hand-mixed soft serve on their menu every day, which all can also be made dairy-free. Serve on the menu all the time, with a flavor (everything from pineapple to pomegranate) that changes every four or five days. (1211 State Route 885) Photo: Page’s Page’s They also use their soft serve to make milkshakes, sundaes, tornadoes, banana splits and dipped cones in flavors like cherry and chocolate. This beloved seasonal ice cream window (they’re usually open from March through October) features classic soft-serve swirls in chocolate, vanilla, and twist - available in cups and cones. They’re using local oats to make their own vegan oat milk soft serve, available in a rotating list of seasonal flavors, like lemon safflower, carrot cake & olive oil swirl, hibiscus berry, organic rhubarb and sorrel (an herbaceous plant with a slightly sour taste). (285 River Ave.) Photo: Al’s Cone Zone Al’s Cone Zone The crew at Farmer x Baker, an outdoor cafe nestled on the banks of the Allegheny River at Allegheny RiverTrail Park, has seriously stepped up their soft-serve game this year. Not only can you find the super-creamy (and always delicious) summertime treat at classic ice cream shops around town in traditional chocolate and vanilla, but a handful of Pittsburgh-area restaurants (and a brewery, too) are redefining these frozen swirls with their own unique flavors.

Let’s call this the Summer of Soft Serve.
