• Frankie & Jo's - University Village

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  • Ice-cream Ice Cream
    Vegan

The 3nd location of this vegan ice cream shop opened 2020. Offers varying flavors such as brown sugar vanilla, chocolate date, and gingerbread golden milk. Sorbet, selection of toppings, and seasonal specials available. Also sells ice cream by the tub. Open Mon-Sun 11:00am-10:00pm.


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20 Reviews

First Review by JandreaGrobbelaar

The Hungry Vegan

Points +3774

Vegan
07 Sep 2024

Worth it

I love Frankie & Jo's! Their flavors are creative and sophisticated. I would encourage you to try them all.

Pros: Delicious, Cute

VictoriaSmith04

Points +342

Vegan
26 May 2024

worth the splurge!

Really great ice cream. Tried the strawberry and the beet ice cream. Creamy, delicious, really fruity flavoured not just 'sugary'. Reallly worth it!

Pros: really good flavours , fun location

Cons: no seating

AlishaM

Points +1061

Vegan
23 May 2024

Delicious ice cream

Honestly, the options here were more like gelato than ice cream: creamy, thick, intense flavors, and all around awesome. It’s not inexpensive (about $5 per scoop), but worth a splurge every once in a while.

Pros: Lots of flavors, All vegan

Cons: Expensive

JohnWaldum

Points +750

Vegan
09 May 2024

Superb Plant Based Ice Cream Shop!

Was walking around the university mall when we stumbled upon Frankie and Jo's. It was a special treat to stumble upon a vegan ice cream shop. With a good selection to choose from and delicious waffle cones. Seattle you have the envy of this Bay Area native.

Pros: Taste!, Options! , Locations (3)

veganveronica

Points +1298

Vegan
09 Feb 2024

Love their seasonal flavors

Every flavor is great, but we love to get their seasonal flavors! The cranberry gingersnap oatnog was the best in a while! Soooo good and definitely get a pint if you don’t live closeby😉

Pros: Lots of options, Open late, Indoor seating

EmdotAlice

Points +4748

Vegan
04 Dec 2023

Creative flavors

My partner loves their unique flavor offerings. On our most recent trip he got one of their seasonal flavors, the cranberry gingersnap oatnog and said it was amazing.

Desh

04 Dec 2023

andyjng

Points +5372

Vegan
08 Oct 2023

Top tier ice cream

With a completely plant-based menu, it made it extra challenging for me to narrow down which flavors I wanted. Fortunately they allowed you to sample as many flavors as you'd like, so I definitely had my fixing.

Everything here is 100% vegan, gum-free, and soy-free. This avoids a lot of the top allergens which is quite impressive, as most of the flavors are coconut based. Each item on the menu also has a complete ingredients list which makes it really easy to know what you are consuming.

I ultimately went with a double scoop of their Supercookies & Cream, and their Salted Caramel Ash. Both of these flavors were incredible. The ice cream was delectably creamy and oh so satisfying.

While there's not a lot of seating inside, they are located in an open plaza with plenty of tables and seats to choose from.

OperationChowhound

Points +7531

Vegan
15 Jul 2023

Fancy Flavors

I enjoyed the Chocolate Tahini Supercookie flavor, but it mostly tasted like chocolate ice cream with chocolate chunks.

Pros: all vegan

Cons: expensive

adalea

Points +1151

Vegan
14 May 2023

yummy yum yum

i brought my friends here. no particular reason, not to cheer myself up, just because they have good ice cream and they’re all vegan and it was a nice sunny day and i wanted to go get some ice cream. some people eat ice cream when they’re sad but i eat ice cream when i’m happy. well technically it was a sorbet. i love vegan businesses. i love vegans. i love seattle. all of these things converge at frankie and jo’s. what a wonderful place. ice cream lifts your mood in the best of times and the worst of times. there is also a veggie grill nearby i think which is yummy.
levi, if you’re reading this, we should come here sometime. i know you’ve already been to the other location, but maybe we can make a new memory here. they have interesting flavors. we can share two scoops. there’s nothing like expensive ice cream on a summer evening. i’ll pay. consider it. i’ll see you in a couple weeks.💗

Updated from previous review on 2023-05-14

Pros: yummy, cute

Cons: expensive

dlachica

Points +3056

Vegan
28 Feb 2023

Had me at Salty Caramel Ash

I have never seen so many plant based frozen desserts in one location and wanted to try them all. My first taste was Salty Carmel Ash and that was it, I was in love. The silky smooth texture, I think, adds to the delicious sweet caramel flavor. Then add a plant based cone and I was in heaven and feeling very decadent.

Pros: All vegan, Cone or bowl, Smooth silky texture

ms_snow

Points +139

Vegan
24 Dec 2022

Creative flavors

Very creative flavors that rotate monthly. Yum!

Vegan_WNBFpro

Points +357

Vegan
02 Nov 2022

Salty Carmel Ash

Women owned, small 503C business

Pros: Vegan 🌱 , Best flavors ever!!!, GF vegan cones

vickerbasket

Points +1253

Mostly Veg
09 Oct 2022

Decently interesting

We tried the beet strawberry rose sorbet and the california cabin. The sorbet w reminded me of a nostalgic candy. There were some floral notes in there without being soapy. The California cabin was supposed to have smoked vanilla, cardamom, black pepper but it tasted mostly of coconut.

Pros: All vegan

Cons: Flavors could be stronger

Birgit

Points +1816

Vegan
24 Aug 2022

It’s that good

I had the Chocolate Tahini Supercookie just a standard scoop to share with the hubby. It was plenty and plenty delightful to enjoy immensely. The flavor was rich and the texture was a culinary adventure to be repeated. Can’t wait to try more flavors. Also loved that the ice cream was not overly sweet but just right. Cute shop with happy and friendly welcoming staff and atmosphere.

1tz3l

Points +102

Vegan
09 Aug 2022

Best icecream

This place had some of the best vegan icecream I’ve ever had, even the non-vegans I was with enjoyed it so much because of all the different flavors they offered!

Pros: Wide menu, Huge portions

CaitlinJulia

Points +321

Vegan
15 Jul 2022

So creamy and tasty!

I got the chocolate super cookie and it was delicious and had a great texture. The waffle cone is also yummy, just know it’s gesture is a bit more cookie like than waffle cone since it’s gluten free.

LorraineGadsden

Points +7274

Vegan
10 Jul 2022

Absolutely Delicious

I love ice cream, and I am pretty picky about it. As someone who has had lots of vegan ice cream, I have a common complaint that it’s oddly sweet or not creamy. Not at Frankie & Jo’s. My boyfriend ordered the chocolate tahini supercookie, and I ordered a split of the brown sugar vanilla and supercookies and cream, both in a waffle cone. All of the flavors were beyond delicious and especially creamy. The brown sugar vanilla was so good my non-veg dad tasted it and went back in to get his own scoop.

I seriously think it’s some of the best ice cream I have ever had, and my family agreed. There were many fun flavors and toppings too. The person working was also super friendly. I highly recommend giving this place a try!

Pros: all vegan , creamy ice cream… waffle cones… toppings, friendly staff

TimSwast

Points +42

Mostly Veg
20 Jun 2022

Gourmet, smooth, and light vegan ice creams

This ice cream was delicious! So glad to have some vegan ice cream amidst so many other options in U Village. I took my cousins and they didn't even realize it was vegan.

Updated from previous review on 2022-06-20

Pros: A weird and wonderful variety, Light and smooth, very gentle on my stomach , Delicious and intense flavor

Cons: Costs $1 extra to get a split scoop

kaleyeah87

Points +409

Vegan
16 Jun 2022

Yummy 🍦

I got a “mini” scoop of rocky road in a cone and it was delicious. The ice cream was smooth and creamy and there were soft marshmallows and crunchy nut pieces sprinkled throughout. The portion size was also quite large for a “mini”. Frankie and Jo’s seems to have improved their recipe over the past couple years and it’s great!

Daren

16 Jun 2022

I need to go back! I miss their simple flavors.

JandreaGrobbelaar

Points +40

Vegan
07 Oct 2020

Amazing vegan ice cream!

Staff is really friendly and the ice cream is delicious!

Pros: Everything is vegan and gluten free, Alternatively sweetened options , Wide variety of flavours




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