Berlin scoops: from pandan to buffalo-milk soft serve

Between two cookies at Jones, flavoured with pandan at amato, or as buffalo-milk soft serve after pizza at Gazzo: these eight places take different approaches to ice cream. House-made nut milk, roasted pistachios and hand-rolled cones are part of the picture.

Jones Ice Cream – ice cream between two cookies

Behind Jones is the French pastry chef Gabrielle Jones, French dessert champion in 2006, who worked at the Ritz in Paris among other places. She makes American-style ice cream from fresh milk and cream, without egg. The cones are rolled by hand and she bakes the cookies herself. The first shop is on Goltzstraße in Schöneberg, with branches on Eberswalder Straße and Wiener Straße. The ice cream sandwich is a scoop between two of those cookies.

Jones Ice CreamSchöneberg · Ice Cream

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Jones Ice Cream

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Jones Ice Cream

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Hokey Pokey – ice cream as patisserie

Niko Robert was a pastry chef at the Ritz-Carlton before he founded the Hokey Pokey ice cream patisserie on Stargarder Straße in 2011, with no powders and no ready mixes. The flavour that gives the shop its name is a New Zealand classic: vanilla ice cream with crunchy honeycomb toffee. Besides Hokey Pokey, the pistachio with whole roasted Sicilian pistachios is worth it. For home there are tubs, such as pistachio with white chocolate.

Hokey Pokey StargarderPrenzlauer Berg · Ice Cream

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Hokey Pokey Stargarder

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amato – black sesame, pandan, Vietnamese coffee

Viet Anh worked in Berlin restaurants for more than ten years before opening amato on Dunckerstraße in June 2025. The flavours come from the tastes he and his family grew up with, mostly East Asian: black sesame & Thai tea, pandan, Vietnamese coffee, plus vegan sorbets and pastries. The affogato comes with hojicha instead of espresso. Dogs are welcome; the logo features Armin, Viet Anh’s dog.

amatoPrenzlauer Berg · Café

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amato

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Tribeca – vegan, made with nut milk

Klaus lived in New York’s Tribeca and worked in finance when he started experimenting with vegan ice cream. In 2017 he opened Tribeca Ice Cream on Rykestraße with his brother Frank and business partner Paul; there is now a second shop on Graefestraße. The ice cream is based on house-made nut milk, cocoa butter and coconut oil, with no refined sugar. The house favourites are raw chocolate and pistachio, and there are gluten-free ice cream sandwiches and spaghetti ice cream too.

Tribeca Ice CreamPrenzlauer Berg · Ice Cream

Vanille & Marille – the Steglitz classic

Vanille & Marille started in a Kreuzberg courtyard in 2009 and runs several shops in Berlin, including one on Leydenallee near Rathaus Steglitz. Everything is made in its own production kitchen to its own recipes.

The counter holds original Tahiti vanilla and Sicilian pistachio next to caramel beurre salé, walnut with fig and Mojito Cubano, a sorbet with rum, mint and lime. Some shops take a break in autumn and winter; current hours are listed on the website.

Vanille & Marille SteglitzSteglitz · Ice Cream

Spumante – ice cream in a bistro

Sisters Helene and Emma opened Spumante on Reichenberger Straße in March 2023. Inside it feels like a ferry heading for the Mediterranean: white monobloc chairs, an azure painted floor, Italo pop on the speakers. Here the ice cream comes between dripping on bread, calamari with aioli and sparkling wine on tap, and only in the evening; during the day it is closed.

SpumanteKreuzberg · Bar

Kuréme – bufala, Viet coffee, mango sticky rice

Kuréme on the corner of Waldemarstraße and Adalbertstraße was founded by My and Duong with their friend Gabriele Atzeni, who runs production. The ice cream is made in small batches with Italian technique and flavours from travel and childhood, such as mango sticky rice with pandan, coconut milk and mango. For the Viet coffee, the condensed milk goes in at the very end so the scoop tastes like Vietnamese iced coffee. Bufala is ice cream made from buffalo-milk ricotta with olive oil, salt and pepper, dipped on request into one of the glazes: matcha, chocolate or pistachio.

KurémeKreuzberg · Korean

Gazzo – soft serve from the pizzeria

Gazzo on Hobrechtstraße has been baking sourdough pizza since 2018. It makes this list for the finish: soft serve made from fresh buffalo milk from a family farm in North Frisia. It comes with olive oil, sea salt and shortbread from Katie’s Blue Cat.

GazzoNeukölln · Italian

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Gazzo

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