Rick*s Rather Rick Ice Cream

Evening Magazine
"Best of the Bay", February 2005

Palo Alto Weekly
Winner: Best Ice Cream Store, 2009

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"Grown-ups and kids all need a sweet treat sometimes, and Rick's Rather Rich Ice Cream offers classic flavors and new favorites. Made in-house, Rick's frozen yogurt and ice creams are indeed notoriously rich, and the small-business intimacy of the store is the cherry on top. Rick's recently expanded to include more indoor seating, but sitting outside with a cone after work or play is a quintessential Palo Alto summer experience. The quality and sheer variety of flavors (including adult favorites such as carob and honey, pistachio saffron and white chocolate ginger) has kept customers coming back faster than a speeding bullet for years."

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The Paly Voice

VIA Magazine

"Rick's is the ideal ice cream shop. Unique flavors, a clean and welcoming atmosphere and friendly service make it a prized establishment in Palo Alto."
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Alameda Newspaper Group (San Mateo County Times, Argus, The Oakland Tribune)
Superb ‘micro creamery’

“Nothing’s artificial about the Banana ice cream…the ice cream tastes exactly like a real banana, only smoother and creamier.”…“The Black Walnut captured the earthy flavor of the walnuts in an exquisitely creamy, delicate base. The Saffron Pistachio was laced with threads of red saffron. The pistachios lent the ice cream a slight savory flavor and the end result was bliss.”

“After devouring our cones, we couldn’t leave empty handed, so we got a quart of Coffee ice cream for the road. It too was an eye opener—strongly flavored, yet delightfully sweet and creamy.”
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San Francisco Chronicle

“… Rick’s is one the happiest places I know…people are smiling from their hearts, not just because it’s good for business.”
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“At this 1956 creamery, customers are sweet on the Kulfi, laced with a bouquet of Indian aromatics from saffron and rose to almond and cardamom.” (Note: there are pistachios in it, too)
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Get up & Go

“Rick’s Rather Rich Ice Cream is touted by some as dishing up the best in the world. With a menu as varied as its clientele, Rick’s serves classics such as a beautifully minty Mint Chip to the very exotic Rose (tastes like a rose smells) and White Chocolate Ginger.”
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Palo Alto Weekly

“…But the crème de la crème was, if you will is, the Industrial Chocolate, made from chocolate ice cream, chocolate fudge and cookie dough. I found it to be the best chocolate based ice cream around, and certainly worth going back for.”
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Gourmet Magazine

“Exotic flavors rule in this congenial parlor, but even such complexities as White Chocolate Ginger and Saffron Pistachio engulf you foremost with their creaminess. The difficult choice between wafer cone and sugar cone necessarily goes to the former at Rick’s. While the sugar cone is tastier and crunchier, it tends to collapse under the weight of this substantial ice cream, while the wafer cone virtually merges with all the licks that melt down into its vortex.”
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