Kate's Ice Cream | |
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![]() Exterior of the shop in southeast Portland, Oregon, 2025 | |
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Street address | 3713 North Mississippi Avenue |
City | Portland |
County | Multnomah |
State | Oregon |
Postal/ZIP Code | 97227 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 45°32′59″N122°40′33″W / 45.5498°N 122.6758°W |
Website | katesicecream |
Kate's Ice Cream is a gluten-free, plant-based ice cream company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. [1]
Kate's Ice Cream uses organic coconut milk and cashew milk. [2] Gluten-free and vegan ice cream varieties include cookies and cream, marionberry cobbler, rosewater cardamom almond, salted peanut butter brittle, [3] triple chocolate brownie, [4] vanilla, and lemon blueberry cheesecake, which has blueberry jam and graham cracker crust. Kate's also serves brownie sundaes, choco tacos, [5] ice cream cake, and ice cream sandwiches. [6]
Kate's has also served seasonal ice cream varieties such as chocolate peppermint. [7]
Owner Katelyn Williams launched Kate's Ice Cream in 2019, [1] initially selling at the farmers' market on the Portland State University campus in downtown Portland. [8] The business later operated as a pop-up on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, before the first brick and mortar location on Mississippi Avenue, [9] [10] in the north Portland part of the Boise neighborhood. [11]
A second shop opened on 23rd Avenue in northwest Portland's Northwest District in 2024, [12] [13] [14] in the space previously occupied by Westward Whiskey. [15]
Writers for Axios Portland included Kate's in a 2023 overview of the city's best vegan ice cream. [16] Portland Monthly included the business in a 2024 overview of the city's best ice cream. [11] Waz Wu and Rebecca Roland included Kate's in Eater Portland 's 2024 list of the city's sixteen "essential" vegan and vegetarian restaurants. [4] In 2025, writers included the business in the website's overviews of the city's eighteen best vegan and vegetarian restaurants [17] and best dairy-free frozen desserts. [18]