The Valentina, Ice Cream Bar

 

The Ice Cream Bar is located in the Cole Valley neighborhood of San Francisco (just a few blocks from the Haight/Ashbury).  Every time I go, I soak up the soda fountain experience. The Valentina is in the lactart section of the soda fountain menu. What's a lactart? Per the Ice Cream Bar Menu, "it's a milk acid which imparts a drying quality." This lactart is refreshing, smooth and captivating.

I just love the names of many of their soda fountain drinks, like El Borracho, Madrid Mistress, New Orleans Hangover and Too Good to Be True. All these drinks, non-alcoholic at this time until they can secure their license. If you know you only want one of the drinks from the soda fountain, skip the line in the front and head directly to the back to the soda fountain where you can find the soda jerk waiting for your order. They are now serving old soda fountain favorites for lunch, such as grilled cheese and hot dogs.

The Drink - The Valentina, $8
Strawberries, rosewood and rosemary extracts, pineapple syrup, cream, lactart, soda

The Place - Ice Cream Bar 
7 Days a week
http://theicecreambarsf.com/

Other Ice Cream Bar Drinks
A Lover's Game (non-alcoholic)