Cheese & Crack Snack Shop
Ice cream shop · Kerns
22 SE 28th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
Highlights
Creamy soft serve with fun dusts & toppings, plus cheese boards.
Creamy soft serve with fun dusts & toppings, plus cheese boards.
"Along the restaurant row of Southeast 28th Avenue, Cheese and Crack serves snack-y trays of bruleed brie and charcuterie with house-made crackers. But visitors also frequent the shop for creamy swirls of vanilla soft serve, which are sprinkled with “dusts” in flavors like matcha or beet and come in cones filled with chocolate ganache at the bottom to prevent leakage. The shop’s vanilla soft serve is also the foundation in its sundaes — featured specials like the caramel cornflake sundae and raspberry birthday cake sundae rotate on a monthly basis, but the always excellent banana pudding sundae is worth an order, complete with luscious house-made banana pudding and Nilla wafers." - Michelle Lopez
"On sweets, Serrone favors ice cream and gelato and says this shop is her favorite for soft-serve sundaes: "They’re my favorite for soft serve sundaes. It’s like a reward: I go on a little 20-minute walk, I get my ice cream, and I walk back. The sundaes are epic. I always think I’m gonna be able to finish a whole one and it never happens." - Thom Hilton
"I enjoy that Cheese & Crack Snack Shop pairs marionberries with savory options — their cheese plates are described as laden with baguette, cornichon, olives, and marionberry jam." - Janey Wong
"Cheese & Crack Snack Shop offers one boozy frozen drink that it does incredibly well: a frosé wine slushie that is light, ethereal, and refreshing. Be sure to pair the frosé with one of the shop’s generous charcuterie plates, complete with house-made butter crackers, savory oatmeal cookies, and more. Those who are booze-free can opt for the shop’s frozen lemonade." - Rebecca Roland
"Ten years ago, Salt & Straw was likely the most commonly spotted Portland ice cream on Instagram, but now, as Salt & Straw shops open all over the country, Portlanders are far more inclined to share shots of this cheese shop’s lanky towers of soft serve, dusted in various flavor powders and topped with a picture-perfect chocolate cowboy hat. They’re not just pretty, either: The ice cream itself is supremely rich and silky, and the dollop of chocolate ganache at the bottom of the cone is a thoughtful touch." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
