Kate's Ice Cream
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| Kate's Ice Cream | |
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 Exterior of the shop in southeast Portland, Oregon, 2025 | |
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| Location | 3713 North Mississippi Avenue, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 97227, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°32′59″N 122°40′33″W / 45.5498°N 122.6758°W |
| Website | katesicecream |
Kate's Ice Cream is a gluten-free, plant-based ice cream company based in Portland, Oregon, United States.[1]
Kate's Ice Cream uses organic coconut milk and cashew milk.[2] Gluten-free and vegan ice cream varieties include cookies and cream, marionberry cobbler, rosewater cardamom almond, salted peanut butter brittle,[3] triple chocolate brownie,[4] vanilla, and lemon blueberry cheesecake, which has blueberry jam and graham cracker crust. Kate's also serves brownie sundaes, choco tacos,[5] ice cream cake, and ice cream sandwiches.[6]
Kate's has also served seasonal ice cream varieties such as chocolate peppermint.[7]
History
Owner Katelyn Williams launched Kate's Ice Cream in 2019,[1] initially selling at the farmers' market on the Portland State University campus in downtown Portland.[8] The business later operated as a pop-up on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, before the first brick and mortar location on Mississippi Avenue,[9][10] in the north Portland part of the Boise neighborhood.[11]
A second shop opened on 23rd Avenue in northwest Portland's Northwest District in 2024,[12][13][14] in the space previously occupied by Westward Whiskey.[15]
Reception
Writers for Axios Portland included Kate's in a 2023 overview of the city's best vegan ice cream.[16] Portland Monthly included the business in a 2024 overview of the city's best ice cream.[11] Waz Wu and Rebecca Roland included Kate's in Eater Portland's 2024 list of the city's sixteen "essential" vegan and vegetarian restaurants.[4] In 2025, writers included the business in the website's overviews of the city's eighteen best vegan and vegetarian restaurants[17] and best dairy-free frozen desserts.[18]
