Hector Garcia of Waffle Me Up will be celebrating the Boise Ice Cream Festival by offering for the first time ever a special trio of mini-Waffles a la Mode with 3 different flavors of Idaho favorite Reed’s Ice Cream. This Explore event is open to the public and on the menu ready to order. Of course ice cream is good for breakfast and lunch…..it is milk right!!! [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Bittercreek Alehouse Pastry Chef will be making a Lambic Sour Sorbet with Oregon Raspberries as their featured dessert item on their menu during the Boise Ice Cream Festival! Simply come and enjoy a good meal and enjoy order this dessert off the menu if your belly has a bit more room. For this you can make room! [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Pastry Chef Rachel Wysong is making Toasted Pistachio Ice Cream with dark chocolate and chili bark with smoked pistachios as their featured festival dessert over at Red Feather. Note that she is creating other signature desserts for the festival at their sister restaurants next door at Bittercreek Alehouse and Diablo & Sons. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
[Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Pastry Chef Rebecca McManus of Richard’s Restaurant creates some of the most delicious and beautiful desserts in town. She is working with the culinary team at Richard’s to create an exclusive dessert menu for the opening week of the Boise Ice Cream Festival. The items special items for the festival will be: Goats milk gelato with a berry swirl; Lemon semifreddo (Citrus baked meringue, berry coulis, fresh berries and lemon curd), and a daily ice cream sundae special! Reservations recommended: https://www.richardsboise.com/
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Tickets only available at the door at the time of the event.
Join Juniper , Idaho Wine Commission and over 20 different wineries & cider makers for our annual evening of tasting the best wine and ciders Idaho has to offer in one of Boise’s most loved landmarks, Freak Alley Gallery
On May 31st, from 5-7pm come stroll down Freak Alley Downtown Boise to sample the season’s best local wines and ciders and get a head start on Idaho Wine and Cider Month in June. Swing by after work or on your way to dinner- $15 at the door gets you in, a stemless glass for tasting and 5 sample pours. Any additional pours are only a $1! Ticket proceeds will go to Idaho Wine Commission ‘s Idaho Wine Education Scholarship to help further a special recipient’s education in viticulture and enology and continue the incredible Idaho wine making tradition. (This is a over 21 years of age event.)
Come taste what Coiled Wines St Chapelle Winery Hells Canyon Winery SCORIA Vineyards 3100 Cellars HAT Ranch Winery and Vineyard Vale Wine Company Split Rail Winery Williamson Orchard and Vineyard Cinder Wines Par Terre Winery Vizcaya Winery Telaya Wine Co Potter Wines Meriwether Cider Company Cold Springs Winery Sawtooth Winery and more have to pour.
There will be small bites available from Juniper and plenty of good downtown vibes to get your weekend started right.
(Mark your calendars, occupancy is limited, first come, first served!)
Visit our Boise Ice Cream Festival pop-up booth at the Boise Farmers Market on Saturday June 1st. We’ll offer you a free sample of a couple of unique first run flavors of a local ice cream made with produce and seasonings purchased from the farmers and made by local Goody’s Soda Fountain. Check back closer to June 1st to hear a sneak peak of what those samples might be.
This event combines 3 Boise treasures: Trolleys, Ice Cream and comedian Megan Bryant! Enjoy a 30 minute ride around historic Boise while eating some ice cream with your family and friends while laughing with your on board host Idaho Laugh Fest founder Megan Bryant. Megan has 4 kids of her own under the age of 10 and will use her unique family friendly improv to keep you chuckling as you cruise Boise and interact with a few costumed characters along the route! Pick up and drop off will be at Shoreline Park (1375 Shoreline Dr, Boise, ID 83702) on the corner of Shoreline Dr and South 14th St attached to the Greenbelt and located adjacent to the Boise Farmers Market. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
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As part of the new Boise Ice Cream Festival, C4 Creamery will be on the patio of Bacon in downtown Boise for this one time only pop up event! Guests that have breakfast or brunch at Bacon on Sunday June 2nd from 11AM-2PM will get a free sample of one of C4 Creamery’s collaborative ice cream creations inspired by Bacon with their proof of purchase. C4 Creamery’s new location is at 3037 S Cole Rd in Boise and they can also be found on Saturday mornings at the Capital City Public Market in downtown Boise. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Since 1947 Fanci Freez has been serving customers cold treats and delicious drive in meals. On Monday June 3rd and Monday June 10th Fanci Freez will be celebrating the Boise Ice Cream Festival by having $1.00 off any size dipped cone, $1.00 off any size fanci soda or get one of their medium milkshakes for the price of a small! These prices are roughly what it would have cost almost 20 years ago.
The offer is valid at both of their locations:
1402 W State St | Boise, ID 83702
&
1750 W McMillan, Ste 100 | Meridian, ID 83646
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Chef Sarah Kelly of Petite 4 will dazzle you with her after dinner creations featuring elevated ice cream sandwiches. Expect things like a blueberry pie ice cream sandwich or a chocolate nut and pretzel ice cream sandwich with ice cream flavored with local caramel stout beer. These desserts and a few other surprise twists will be available for purchase to guests of Petite 4 after they finish their meals there. Reservations at Petite 4 are always recommended and can be obtained by calling 208.345.1055 between 3PM-5PM. Go to http://eatatpetite4.com/ for more information about Petite 4. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Join Robert D Austin Jr, one of the administrators of a very popular local Boise history Facebook group of over 6,000 members and special guest John Sowell of the Idaho Statesmen for the first ever panel discussion on Boise’s history with ice cream. Also joining will be Goody’s owner Brett Palmateer and Scott Wink of Boise’s Best Bites. Discover how several key factors over the past 120 years have helped shape Boise’s obsession with the frozen treat. From frontier town to an agriculture and dairy center of national importance, we’ll talk about how the ice cream industry in Boise went from pharmacy soda fountains to drive ins to ice cream trucks then to this modern group of ice cream makers like Goody’s, The Stil, Stella’s , Reed’s Dairy and C4 Creamery. During the morning you’ll also have the opportunity to see the team at Goody’s pulling out a batch of fresh made ice cream from that morning or making waffle cones. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Perhaps the most famous dessert in Idaho is Westside Drive In’s Idaho Ice Cream Potato. For the festival on Wednesday June 5th, at both locations, Chef Lou and his son Josh Aaron will be offering it up for only $3.49! Of course locals know there are no potatoes involved here it just looks that way. They roll a chunk of ice cream into some cocoa powder to give the dessert the signature potato appearance then they top it with whipped cream and put it over some chocolate syrup that seems like sour cream and steak sauce. The result is surprising, delicious, fun, and soooo Idaho.
You can find them at:
1929 W State St, Boise, ID 83702 (Drive in or walk up only)
or
1113 E Parkcenter Blvd, Boise, ID 83706 (Drive in, walk up, or eat inside)
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OMG this is going to be delicious! Stella’s Ice Cream is collaborating with the owner of Lemon Tree to create several custom flavors for this event.
Inspired by the menu of Lemon Tree you will see something like ice cream flavors playing off Lemon Tree favorites like the basil lemonade or the blueberry jalapeno lemonade or a vegan coconut yellow curry……you see where this is going!
With the purchase of your delicious sandwich or salad at Lemon Tree Co during this event you will be treated to a special free scoop of one of these amazing new custom flavors by Stella’s Ice Cream. Stella’s will be on site serving it and describing the flavor profiles and creation process. Stella’s Ice Cream has a beautiful scoop shop with lots of surprises in Nampa, ID and their second location is coming to Eagle, ID in summer 2019. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Since 1947 Fanci Freez has been serving customers cold treats and delicious drive in meals. On Monday June 3rd and Monday June 10th Fanci Freez will be celebrating the Boise Ice Cream Festival by having $1.00 off any size dipped cone, $1.00 off any size fanci soda or get one of their medium milkshakes for the price of a small! These prices are roughly what it would have cost almost 20 years ago.
The offer is valid at both of their locations:
1402 W State St | Boise, ID 83702
&
1750 W McMillan, Ste 100 | Meridian, ID 83646
[Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Include in ticket: Barbarian’s Cookie Dough Ice Cream Ale (pre-launch tasting), Barbarian’s Twix Ice Cream Ale, The Stil ice cream, brewery tour and discussion.
Join us at Barbarian Brewing in Garden City, Idaho for an exclusive behind the scenes tour and tasting of the upcoming new beer: Cookie Dough Ice Cream Ale.
You will get to be the first group of beer lovers to enjoy the new flavor and you’ll get to learn more about Barbarian’s recent move to incorporate more candy and ice cream into their beers.
For reference Barbarian’s Twix Ice Cream Ale is a golden stout made with 60lbs (1080 candy bar pieces) of Twix, 20 lbs of vanilla ice cream, extra caramel, chocolate and vanilla! You’ll have to be at the tour to hear about what went into the Cookie Dough ale!
[Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
OMG this is going to be delicious! Stella’s Ice Cream is collaborating with the owner of Lemon Tree to create several custom flavors for this event.
Inspired by the menu of Lemon Tree you will see something like ice cream flavors playing off Lemon Tree favorites like the basil lemonade or the blueberry jalapeno lemonade or a vegan coconut yellow curry……you see where this is going!
With the purchase of your delicious sandwich or salad at Lemon Tree Co during this event you will be treated to a special free scoop of one of these amazing new custom flavors by Stella’s Ice Cream. Stella’s will be on site serving it and describing the flavor profiles and creation process. Stella’s Ice Cream has a beautiful scoop shop with lots of surprises in Nampa, ID and their second location is coming to Eagle, ID in summer 2019. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Join Mai Thai Executive Chef Justin Scheihing and Mai Thai owner Billy Pothikamjorn for a special pairing event in conjunction with the Boise Ice Cream Festival. They will be featuring a menu special of a dozen Rice Powder Dusted Pacific Fried Oysters paired with a Thai Sriracha Lime Sorbet for $25. The full food and bar menu will also be available at this time.
The special will be a great pairing and will push your understanding of frozen desserts by introducing you to a spicy frozen dessert not normally seen in most typical ice creams and sorbets but that goes really well with the spicy cuisine of Thailand. The sorbet will be a great mix of sweet, spicy, and sour served after your crunchy, salty, umami oysters. This spicy dessert is definitely a notable highlight of the Boise Ice Cream Festival. Thanks to the Mai Thai team for creating it!
The special will be enough for an oyster lover to enjoy by themselves or for a table to order as part of their full order to share.
Barbarian releases “Dat Cookie Dough Ice Cream Ale” to the public on this day! Meet at Barbarian Brewing in Garden City to celebrate the official launch of this new ale at this open to the public event. The Stil ice cream cart will be on hand from 5-8PM. During that time there will be a special offer of two 6oz beer pours and two ice cream choices from The STIL for $12 and can be purchased the day of at the event.
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Join Diana DeJesus of Boise Bucket List at one of her groundbreaking Collaboration Over Competition events for up and coming female entrepreneurs, this one with a Boise Ice Cream Festival twist. The mixer will be at the manufacturing facility for The Gelato Shop in Nampa, Idaho. Meet other aspiring female entrepreneurs to foster intentional and genuine relationships with like-minded women. Hear from the owner of The Gelato Shop about the gelato making process and the ups and downs of being a business owner and entrepreneur in the food and dessert industry. There might just be some tasty samples! Tickets coming soon. Follow Collaboration Over Competition on Facebook for details once they are available. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
Diablo and Sons Pastry Chef Rachel Wysong will be making some whimsical flavors of soft serve ice cream. I hear she is working on her new “burnt honey” flavor to pair with Diablo’s fire grill menu offerings so it will be the perfect dessert ending to your meal. We are super excited to taste all the twists she makes.
No pints of beer, only pints of ice cream will be enjoyed on these 30-minute trips around downtown Boise with your family! No alcohol will be allowed. This will be a family and kid friendly event. Join us for a group pedaling event from 10:30AM to 3PM the day of our Grand Tasting event at Jump. This is a separate event from the Grand Tasting, but it would be super convenient for those already at Jump for the tasting. Make sure to schedule your pedaling at a time outside of your Grand Tasting session time. Kids are welcome but need to be tall enough to ride an adult bike and contribute some to the pedaling portion of the event. We’ll provide some ice cream to taste, family appropriate music to enjoy, and help make sure we all have a blast. Rides will load and unload at Jump near their display tractors at the corner of 9th Ave and W Broad Street. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
[Buy tickets in advance before it is sold out, no tickets at the door] The Grand Tasting is the premier event of the 2019 Boise Ice Cream Festival. It will be a gathering of more than 200 flavors of mostly locally made ice cream, gelato, and frozen treats all under one roof. Tickets are available for specific time sessions only. Sessions will be 12:30-2PM, 2-3:30PM, and 3:30-5PM. A ticket will entitle each guest up to 120 free samples during their allotted session. No additional out of pocket money will be required at the event once you have paid for your ticket. There will be live entertainment, games, educational opportunities and surely a few brain freezes. The event will take place on the 5th floor of Jump in downtown Boise. The Grand Tasting is co-sponsored by the Culinary Collective Network with a portion of proceeds to benefit Boise’s local non-profit Create Common Good. Festival activities will start taking place on May 28th, 2019 and will conclude at this finale ticketed event The Grand Tasting on Saturday June 15th, 2019. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
[Buy tickets in advance before it is sold out, no tickets at the door] The Grand Tasting is the premier event of the 2019 Boise Ice Cream Festival. It will be a gathering of more than 200 flavors of mostly locally made ice cream, gelato, and frozen treats all under one roof. Tickets are available for specific time sessions only. Sessions will be 12:30-2PM, 2-3:30PM, and 3:30-5PM. A ticket will entitle each guest up to 120 free samples during their allotted session. No additional out of pocket money will be required at the event once you have paid for your ticket. There will be live entertainment, games, educational opportunities and surely a few brain freezes. The event will take place on the 5th floor of Jump in downtown Boise. The Grand Tasting is co-sponsored by the Culinary Collective Network with a portion of proceeds to benefit Boise’s local non-profit Create Common Good. Festival activities will start taking place on May 28th, 2019 and will conclude at this finale ticketed event The Grand Tasting on Saturday June 15th, 2019. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]
[Buy tickets in advance before it is sold out, no tickets at the door] The Grand Tasting is the premier event of the 2019 Boise Ice Cream Festival. It will be a gathering of more than 200 flavors of mostly locally made ice cream, gelato, and frozen treats all under one roof. Tickets are available for specific time sessions only. Sessions will be 12:30-2PM, 2-3:30PM, and 3:30-5PM. A ticket will entitle each guest up to 120 free samples during their allotted session. No additional out of pocket money will be required at the event once you have paid for your ticket. There will be live entertainment, games, educational opportunities and surely a few brain freezes. The event will take place on the 5th floor of Jump in downtown Boise. The Grand Tasting is co-sponsored by the Culinary Collective Network with a portion of proceeds to benefit Boise’s local non-profit Create Common Good. Festival activities will start taking place on May 28th, 2019 and will conclude at this finale ticketed event The Grand Tasting on Saturday June 15th, 2019. [Full 2019 Ice Cream Festival Calendar] [Places to Stay in Boise]