Salt & Straw to Add Additional Flavors this Summer

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Robby Davis, GolocalPDX Contributor

Salt & Straw ice cream will be adding several new flavors to their menu in the near future. Beginning in June, Salt & Straw will be adding flavors that were inspired by local food carts and street food chefs. Salt & Straw’s Head Ice Cream Chef, Tyler Malek, recently took a culinary tour across Portland to come up with this idea.

These flavors will become available on June 5th through July 2nd.

In order to accurately depict some of these flavors Salt & Straw collaborated with chefs from each food cart. They wanted to get the flavors as accurate as possible. Some of these new flavors include, Nong’s Khao Man Gai Peanut Butter, Viking Soul Food’s Goat’s Milk and Lingonberries, Potato Champion’s Poutine, Wolf & Bear’s Tahini and Cardamom, and Koi Fusion’s Kimchi & Rice.

With these flavors being added in the coming months Portland’s food scene will be remaining diverse for the foreseeable future.

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