Edmonton 
Cool off this summer with local ice cream and frozen treats! Some of these local ice cream shops are fairly new to Edmonton and offer completely new and unique flavours you can’t find elsewhere. Some are also local neighbourhood favourites that have been scooping for Edmonton for years.
And don’t just picture a classic cone when thinking of the coolest or best ice cream shops in Edmonton. You can find ice cream rolled up, dipped in chocolate, mixed for a milkshake, or as a sandwich. Rather than trying to decide on a flavour, we suggest just trying them all!
80 Flavours Premium Ice Cream
You might know 80 Flavours as the blue truck at the side of the road as you enter the city, with a list of flavours so long that you’re drawn in to pull the car over and give it a try. Enjoy your ice cream in the fresh open air around any one of the 5 ice cream trucks now permanently parked around Edmonton.
80 Flavours Premium Ice Cream:
- 4025 Gateway Blvd NW
- 14717 127 St NW
- 11520 Ellerslie Rd SW
- 8620 159 St NW
- 10910 142 St NW
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Kind Ice Cream
Be kind with ice cream. Use it to show some love to yourself and others with Kind’s two locations and small batch flavours. They have a rotating seasonal selection, with Gay OK, Lemon Cloud, and Aperol Spritz Sorbet (vegan), just for summer. You can enjoy these other delicious flavours any time of year: Cookies and Sour Cream, Vanilla Bean, Salted Caramel, or Mud Pie, to name a few.
Ritchie: 9551 76 Ave. NW; Phone: (587) 759-0080
Highlands: 6507 112 Ave.; Phone: 780-474-5547
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Yelo’d Ice Cream and Bakeshop
Enjoy an ice cream sandwich like never before from Yelo’d. These special treats involve a large slab of ice cream sandwiched between two freshly baked cookies, and you can choose any cookie or ice cream flavour for creating your sandwich. You can also take your ice cream in a cone, affogato, or milk shake.
Yelo’d Ice Cream and Bakeshop: 10150A 82 Ave NW
Phone: (780) 994-9356
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Scoops Ice Cream
This is a favourite of many Millwoods locals as it is walking distance from Jackie Parker Park and opposite the dog park on the ravine. Grab yourself one of their 20 flavours, and escape into the ravine paths south of the parking lot for a scenic walk with your cone. As a bonus, you could also order some Mary Brown’s Chicken while you’re here, or shop for goodies you can normally only get on Canada’s East Coast.
Scoops Ice Cream: 4004 50 St NW, Edmonton
Phone: (780) 490-6211
MishMash Parfait & Ice Cream
MishMash is part of the Scoop n Roll Family, another popular ice cream shop who are well-known for their rolled ice cream treats. But this ice cream truck specialize is mish mashing flavours together in order to create amazing tasting and great looking soft serve cones.
MishMash Parfait & Ice Cream: Kingsway Mall Parking Lot – Corner of Kingsway Ave & 109 St
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Scoop n Roll
What started as a single food truck is now one of the most popular shops in Edmonton with 7 locations and their sister truck, MishMash. This was the first place in Canada to offer the rolled ice cream which comes from Thailand where you can order it as Tim Pad. This version of ice cream is all about the process and the fresh ingredients. Your order is created by pouring liquid ice cream over a frozen pan where it is mixed up with fresh fruit, nuts, or candy. As it freezes, it becomes easier to roll into convenient little cylinders.
- 13154 137 Avenue NW
- 3414 Gateway Boulevard
- 375 St. Albert Trail
- 9908 170 St NW
- 13530 Fort Rd NW
- 1109 James Mowatt Trail SW
- 2020 Sherwood Dr
Phone: (780)9092211
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Pa Peterson’s Ice Cream
Pa Peterson’s has the ability to give you 1950s malt shop feels. Grab an ice cream cone, milk shake, bags of candy, and enjoy them on the patio. You can order a variety of ice cream flavours in waffle or regular cone. You can get all of their lunch and dinner foods to go on ordering services but will need to stop by in person for the ice cream.
Pa Peterson’s Ice Cream: Westgate Plaza, 16320 95 Ave. NW
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Blaster’s Ice Creams & Cakes
Visit in-store to see the daily ice cream flavours offered at Blaster’s in Millwoods. And take a browse through their gallery of fun cakes on Instagram to get a feel for their baking talents, too. Along with hard ice cream and cakes, you can also cool off with their milkshakes, slushies, and soft serve.
Blaster’s Ice Creams & Cakes: 1067 Knottwood Road East NW
Phone: (780) 440-6988
Made by Marcus
This ice cream shop began in Calgary and continues to grow in popularity across Alberta- so much so that they needed to build a shop on Whyte Avenue. For a summer stroll on Whyte, you can cool off with Marcus’s extraordinary flavours like Guava Milkshake, Malted Chocolate Honeycomb, Lemon Curd Blueberry, or Transcend Espresso PB&J.
Made by Marcus: 10426 82 Ave NW, Edmonton
Phone: (780) 705-7015
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La Carraia Gelateria Cafe
This may not be the list of the best gelato in Edmonton, but we couldn’t leave out ice cream’s Italian cousin! For some of the best gelato in Edmonton, head to La Carraia on a warm summer’s day and cool off with flavours like passion fruit, mixed berry cake, peach, melon, and many, many more.
La Carraia Gelateria Café: 10067 109 St NW, Edmonton
Phone: (780) 244-0648
By: Bernadette Gallagher