Hila Gelato Caffè
Ice cream shop · Mission
951 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Highlights
Sicilian gelato shop with creative flavors, coffee, pastries
Sicilian gelato shop with creative flavors, coffee, pastries
"Look, we know, gelato is not technically ice cream, but hear us out: when it’s hot out and you’re on Valencia Street, this is the place to go. Chef and owner Iliary Biondo owned a gelato shop in Palermo for ten years and serves the real deal at her current San Francisco shop, Hila. Go with whatever flavor moves you — we’re partial to pistachio and gianduia — but whatever you do, get it stuffed into a walk and snack’able cannoli if you can." - Paolo Bicchieri
"The Mission has a wealth of dessert options, but Hila Gelato should be your first choice regardless of the temperature. The Sicilian-style gelato is incredibly creamy and the flavors rotate constantly. Our favorites usually lean on the fruitier side, like the blueberry that’s chock full of small berry bits that taste straight from a farm stand in the Central Valley. Consider this the perfect way to cool off on a 72-degree San Francisco day." - patrick wong, julia chen 1, ricky rodriguez
"The Valencia Street shop is credited as one of the contributors that helped usher in the Great Gelato Summer of 2024, helping establish a wave of upscale, chef-driven frozen desserts across the city." - Paolo Bicchieri
"A Mission gelato shop run by Ilary Biondo (who owned a gelato shop in Palermo for 10 years before moving here) offering flavors such as pistachio and gianduia; the shop suggests skipping the cone and ordering a cannoli to be filled with a gelato flavor of your choice." - Dianne de Guzman
"A Valencia Street gelato shop took to Instagram to show off a new Dubai chocolate gelato; according to the Italian shop, this marks "the only Dubai chocolate gelato in the Bay Area." - Paolo Bicchieri
