Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream Capitol Hill
Ice cream shop · Capitol Hill ·
Creative flavors like salted caramel & honey lavender
Creative flavors like salted caramel & honey lavender
"We all know how your relationship with Molly Moon’s goes. You stroll past and catch the scent of hot waffle cones wafting across the block, something inside of you snaps, and you immediately hang a sharp turn inside and order a triple scoop. Whether or not it was originally your intention to eat some ice cream, we think you made a good decision, because a trip to Molly Moon’s is a Seattle rite of passage. Their flavors focus on local products, like organic Washington peppermint, lavender harvested from the Olympic peninsula, and chocolate spun with melted K'UL bars. Look out for seasonal options that usually taste way better than the mainstays." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley
"A local institution, Molly Moon’s serves up the right mix of imaginative and classic flavors, all made with fresh and local ingredients. The notoriously long lines move quickly, and with Cal Anderson park right across the street, there’s always somewhere to enjoy your scoop." - Hum Creative
"Scoop It Up at Molly Moon's Another food-truck-made-good in a permanent location, Molly Moon’s now has five locations around town, but still sends out its iconic baby-blue truck for special events — just follow your nose to the heavenly scent of their freshly made waffle cones. Flavors range from classics like vanilla bean and strawberry to local specialties like Theo Chocolate or Stumptown Coffee (pro tip: get those two swirled together), with more adventurous rotating seasonal flavors (current offerings include blackberry bergamot and watermelon mint sorbet). Locally sourced, organic ingredients are the emphasis here. They also have vegan options and pints to go, as well as plenty of merchandise featuring their goofy-cute pug mascot, Parker Posey."
"Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream Shop, Capitol Hill by Hum Creative. A local institution, Molly Moon’s serves up the right mix of imaginative and classic flavors, all made with fresh and local ingredients. The notoriously long lines move quickly, and with Cal Anderson park right across the street, there’s always somewhere to enjoy your scoop."
"I found that on Capitol Hill, Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream recently put a “gun free zone” sign in the shop window that explicitly calls attention to police; the chain has had a no‑gun policy for seven years, but the police‑specific wording is new to this location. Owner Molly Moon‑Neitzel says she added the sign after a California businessman ordered $500 worth of ice cream for local officers and then alerted them to pick it up, which produced a sudden influx of police into the store that made staff—particularly BIPoC employees—uncomfortable and, she alleges, led to some officers harassing employees; social media then incorrectly suggested the shop had given free ice cream to cops. Moon‑Neitzel says the sign is intended to alert officers that the store is a gun‑free zone, not to ban law enforcement; none of the six other open Molly Moon’s locations have the sign. The company’s Instagram post emphasized support for Black Lives Matter and divesting funding from the police, and it published the June 3 company newsletter online—which doesn’t prohibit employees from attending BLM protests but provides health and safety guidelines and alternative ways to take action—and said it supports employees who protest and wants open, honest dialogue." - Gabe Guarente
