Fifty Licks

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Fifty Licks
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Exterior of Fifty Licks on East Burnside Street (with Laurelhurst Theater in the background), Portland, Oregon, 2022
Restaurant information
Established2009;15 years ago (2009)
Owner(s)Chad Draizin
Food type Ice cream
Website www.fifty-licks.com

Fifty Licks is an ice cream parlor with several locations in Portland, Oregon.

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History

Owner Chad Draizin had graduated from NSU University School and studied beer brewing at the University of Florida before an internship at Portland Brewing. [1] After realizing brewing beer on an industrial level was not for him, he began Fifty Licks as an ice cream truck in 2009. [2] That ice cream truck, which operates only during the summer, was named one of Portland's "best new food carts" in 2011 by The Oregonian. [3] "Fifty Licks" is an estimate of the number of licks required to eat one scoop. [3]

In 2013, Draizin opened the first brick and mortar location in the Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood, [2] and Vox Media's Eater selected Fifty Licks as seventh on a list of "16 worthy ice cream candidates that opened across the country over the past year or so" to be included on its "Eater National Ice Cream Heatmap". [4]

Fifty Licks is a small-batch handmade ice cream shop in Portland, Oregon. Their ice cream is lusciously high in butterfat and eggs, and their flavors lean towards elegant & aromatic.

— bon apétit presents Feast Portland [5]

The second location opened on East Burnside Street in the Buckman neighborhood in 2017, which led to increased popularity for the company. [2] [6] Fifty Licks offers approximately eleven flavors daily as well as two soft serve flavors and offers ice cream cocktails. [7] [8] The ice cream parlor also makes an effort to provide non-dairy and vegan options, and hopes to eventually feature fifty-percent dairy-free products. [9] [10]

In 2018, Akron Beacon Journal reporter Katie Byard wrote about "some feasting in Portland, Ore., considered one of the country’s best food cities..." [11] and "... an ice cream place dubbed Fifty Licks. Specializing in nontraditional flavors, it touts that it makes its base for its ice creams in house... a friend bought some 'Chocolate as #$%&' with housemade ganache for us to try. The name works... " [12]

During the 2018, Occupy ICE protests, the Fifty Licks food truck distributed free ice cream to protestors. [13] [14] In 2020, Fifty Licks opened its third location in the Slabtown district of the Northwest District neighborhood. [2] [15] Later that year, following the George Floyd protests, one of the shops was briefly targeted by a rioter who tore down a Black Lives Matter poster displayed in the shop's window. [16]

An Associated Press article reported that Fifty Licks was featured in the Hulu television series Shrill . [17] Peter Cottell of Thrillist said Fifty Licks is "beloved for simple, elegant flavors in no-nonsense spaces." [18]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Russell, Michael (February 19, 2020). "Fifty Licks ice cream to open first west-side location this spring". OregonLive . Advance Publications. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  3. 1 2 Russell, Michael (June 24, 2011). "Portland's best new food carts". OregonLive . Advance Publications. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  4. ↑ Forbes, Paula (August 30, 2013). "The 16 Hottest Ice Cream Shops in the US Right Now". Eater. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
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  6. ↑ Russell, Michael (April 25, 2017). "Fifty Licks opens new Burnside location this Friday". OregonLive . Advance Publications. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
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  8. ↑ Kryza, Andy (September 11, 2013). "These boozy ice cream cocktails are everything you've ever wanted". Thrillist. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
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