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5. Xanath Ice Cream: There's only one reason to go to this shop -- vanilla.
As much as we love peanut butter curry ice cream, there's literally no substitute for a good vanilla, particularly if you want to put it on something else, like a fruit pie, or cover it with dark chocolate sauce. It's the standard by which ice cream shops' competence should be measured. With vanilla, there's no hiding behind other ingredients.
Frankly, we think Xanath's other flavors are meh. But Xanath is an outlet of a vanilla-bean importer and has three kinds of vanilla: Mexican, Madagascar and Tahitian. Not only are all three quite good and quite different; together they prove that vanilla really is exciting. Yes, we know that's not exactly a San Francisco philosophy, but when it's directly imported location-specific vanilla, we think it gets a pass.
That's it, these are our Top Five Ice Cream Shops. Feel free to agree or disagree in the comments; we gotta go brush our teeth.
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