"At Smitten, they use liquid nitrogen to churn your ice cream to order—and the result is phenomenal, ultra-smooth ice cream. The cookie dough with pretzels and chocolate chips is our default order, and you can get your scoop topped with everything from chocolate syrup to cookie dough chunks. Make sure to ask about what seasonal flavors they have on rotation like their spicy honey and lavender earl grey with quinoa." - julia chen 1, lani conway, ricky rodriguez, patrick wong