While the giant menu at 100% Sweet Cafe has a lot to offer, you'll want to go straight for the shaved ice. This dairy-free dessert comes in a bunch of different flavors like green tea and mango. Read more.
This Vietnamese dessert spot hits all the right notes with their sweets and ché, which are shave ice parfaits layered with things like lychee, pandan jelly, jackfruit, and even avocado. Read more.
A Sicilian specialty, granita is a staple of Delfina's dessert menu, and it makes a wonderful end to any meal at this next-door sister restaurant to the Mission's Pizzeria Delfina Read more.
One of multiple fine, Italian or Cal-Med restaurants around town where you'll find granita on the menu this time of year, Foreign Cinema is well known for its watermelon granita in the summertime. Read more.
Handcrafted in Northern California, their small-batch dairy-free sorbets are coconut-based and sweetened with organic agave nectar. Flavors include Earl Grey, Orange Creamsicle, and Kona Coffee. Read more.
Holy Gelato is doing dairy teetotalers right by giving out options, because one vegan choice is just tokenism. That said, who needs so many to choose from when Thai tea is on the menu? Read more.
The Ice Cream Bar always has three dairy-free flavors: Chocolate sorbet, a coconut milk-almond, and a rotating fruit flavor. Though all are great, it's the almond that's the real winner. Read more.
Take the Italian ice: sweet shaved shards in lemon, almond, or a seasonal flavor. Syrupy but light and summery regardless of the season, it's always a treat after, say, a chicken parm. Read more.
The "shave ice"isn't exactly always dairy free, or vegan, but you can order it without the whipped cream! One of their versions is made with Four Barrel coffee and chocolate syrup. Read more.
One of the staple, classic dessert items at Zuni Cafe is the espresso granita, which will come as a parfait with whipped cream if you don't ask for it without, but stands excellently well on its own. Read more.
