Fresh, ripe, in-season berries rank among the most ambrosial foods you can eat. Luckily, Seattle restaurants and bakeries are currently dreaming up dishes showcasing their sweetness, from strawberry shortcake to ice cream to pastries. We've rounded them up below so you can get your fill of plump, juicy fruit during the all-too-short berry season. For more delicious things to eat and drink, check out our list of July food and drink specials, our complete food and drink calendar, or our restaurant listings.
A La Mode Pie
You can always find golden pies bursting with berries at this pie bakery, whose signature pies include Blue Hawaiian (blueberry, pineapple, and coconut), Marionberry Hazelnut, and Strawberry Rhubarb.
Bakery Nouveau
The ever-popular bakery has concocted a sweet-tart Blueberry Limoncello Tart, a lemon chiffon cake brushed with limoncello syrup and layered with blueberry mousse and lemon cream.
Brave Horse Tavern
Tom Douglas's South Lake Union beer hall worked with the Dahlia Bakery crew to produce their new mixed berry pie.
Central District Ice Cream
Known for its bold, intriguing flavors, the Central District ice cream shop is scooping up Blackberry Beet and Strawberry Peach and Sun-dried Tomatoes for July.
Coyle’s Bakeshop
Pastry chef Rachael Coyle's adorable Greenwood bakery recommends their strawberry ricotta cake, made with Hayton Farms strawberries, for breakfast, and who are we to argue?
Cupcake Royale
The popular cupcakery's "Mountain Berry Crunch" ice cream features blackberry ice cream with hints of cinnamon and orange and house-made dark chocolate granola.
Dahlia Bakery
Tom Douglas's bakery boasts berry treats galore, including buckwheat oat bundt cake with lemon buttermilk glaze and blueberries and blueberry almond crostada.
Ellenos Yogurt
If you haven't tried the lush, velvety yogurt swirled with tart marionberry from everyone's favorite Greek yogurt vendor, you're missing out.
Frankie & Jo’s
The natural plant-based ice creamery's seasonal Blueberry Buckwheat Streusel flavor consists of a coconut milk base blended with Bow Hill Farms blueberries, plus crunchy buckwheat and cashew streusel clusters.
Full Tilt Ice Cream
The ice cream shop that doubles as a pinball arcade has partnered with the Washington Blueberry Council for July to create blueberry-themed specials, like a blueberry sundae with homemade blueberry sauce and fresh blueberries, blueberry champagne floats, blueberry milkshakes, and a blueberry cheesecake flavor.
General Porpoise Doughnuts
Renee Erickson's doughnut shop has been stuffing their pillowy, heavenly doughnuts with super-seasonal fillings like strawberry cream and blackberry jam.
Hello Robin
You won't be able to get enough of the "Berry White," the Capitol Hill cookie bakery's new cookie with three types of berries, lemon zest, and white chocolate.
Hot Cakes
As their molten cake of the month, Kari Brunson's decadent dessert emporium is currently serving Fraiche Raspberry Verbena Molten Cake, featuring dark chocolate molten cake filled with lemon verbena-infused creme fraiche, house-made raspberry jam, vanilla ice cream, and lemon verbena meringue kisses. Their summer menu also includes strawberry shortcake with a warm biscuit, whipped cream, Hayton Farms strawberries, strawberry black pepper compote, and basil semifreddo, and their vegan shake of the month for July is the Blackberry and Olive Oil Cookie Vegan Shake, made with organic blackberry compote, Frankie & Jo's brown sugar vanilla plant-based ice cream, and a crunchy vegan and gluten-free olive oil cookie crumble.
Macrina Bakery
Fresh blueberry pie, mini blueberry cheesecakes, and strawberry vanilla bean cupcakes are among the beloved bakery's summer menu offerings, available until September 4.
Mighty-O Donuts
The vegan donut shop's July donut of the month is the "blueberry monster," with a vibrantly pigmented blueberry batter and glaze.
Molly Moon’s Ice Cream
The local ice cream parlor puts the summer dessert favorite in ice cream form with their strawberry shortcake flavor, made with sweet cream ice cream, a swirl of Viva Farms strawberry jam, and real shortbread scone chunks.
The London Plane
Stop in for a lazy brunch at Pioneer Square's bright, airy cafe and feast on some berry babka French toast.
Parfait Organic Artisan Ice Cream
The Ballard farm-to-table ice cream maker showcases local produce with their summertime selection, which includes Stellar Strawberry, Cacao Nib with Blackberry Ripple, White Chocolate Raspberry, Raspberry Sorbet, and the non-dairy Strawberry Colada.
Pie
Fremont's pint-sized pie shop offers strawberry rhubarb and "berry awesome" pie every day, as well as an ever-rotating selection that might include apple blackberry, apple blueberry, apple raspberry, raspberry blueberry, Northwest blackberry, peach blackberry, peach raspberry, and more—all the more reason to stop in to see what today's options are.
Pie Bar
Get your fruit-filled pastry with a side of booze at this popular walk-up bar, which suggests Seattle Cider as a pairing for its strawberry rhubarb crumble pie and the "Burning Apron" cocktail (Irish cream, amaretto, vodka, rum, coffee, and cream) as a pairing for its "deserted island" pie with strawberries, raspberries, marionberries, Granny Smith apples, and a streusel topping.
Rachel’s Ginger Beer
The spicy-sweet soda shop's seasonal flavor is Strawberry x Passionfruit—combine with a scoop of pineapple Dole whip soft-serve for maximum summer vibes.
Raised Doughnuts
All through July, the Central District doughnut shop will fry up doughnuts in strawberry and blueberry basil. Head in on Sundays to snag some blackberry pie doughnuts, complete with homemade berry compote filling, sugar coating, and a petite pie lattice.
Salt and Straw
The Portland-based artisan ice cream shop's line of seasonal flavors for July all revolve around berries: Goat Cheese Marionberry Habanero, made with Sweet Fire-flavored chevre from Portland Creamery; Birthday Cakes & Blackberries, which tastes like frosting and features chunks of cake and blackberry jam; Fresh Sheep's Cheese & Strawberries, with a fresh sheep's cheese cooked into an egg yolk custard for a rich, funky, tangy base for jammy roasted strawberries; Meyer Lemon with Blueberries, a vegan and dairy-free flavor with coconut cream, Central California Meyer lemons, and blueberries; and Finnriver Salal Berry Cider, a cardamom-spiced ice cream swirled with a marmalade made from Finnriver Farm & Cidery's salal berry cider (which uses the dark bluish-black berries of the salal plant, a shrub commonly found in the Pacific Northwest).
Seattle Pops
In addition to their permanent Very Strawberry and Strawberry Banana flavors, the frosty-pop purveyor has concocted the seasonal flavors Strawberry Lemonade and Strawberries and Cream.
Trophy Cupcakes
The gourmet cupcakery's Blueberry Pie cupcake consists of Madagascar vanilla cake filled with house-made Washington blueberry pie filling and crowned with vanilla buttercream, a fresh blueberry, and a piece of flaky pastry crust.
Volunteer Park Cafe
Volunteer Park Cafe's summertime cake comes bedecked with blueberries, raspberries, and blossoms.
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