Salt & Straw — a Danny Meyer-backed, Portland, Oregon-based national chain of quirky ice cream shops — launched its first Big Apple spot at 360 Amsterdam Ave. last month to breathless media ...

These two ice cream shops will be the West Coast brand's first locations in the Northeast. Salt & Straw is opening its first two New York City ice cream shops. The first Salt & Straw shop is ...

Heavy cream is added, further smoothing the texture. The introduction of sugar isn’t just for sweetness: like scattering salt on snow, it lowers the freezing point, minimizing ice formation.

Known for their original flavors, Salt & Straw ice-cream shops, started in Portland, Oregon as a food truck and then opened a brick-and-mortar store in that city in 2011. Indeed Salt & Straw has ...

Salt & Straw has been the lick-forward leader ... of "crunchy chocolate crickets" (actual crickets, yep) in the matcha ice cream as well as bits of toffee brittle that includes mealworms.