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After about a year and a half of business in Palo Alto, Tin Pot Creamery is expanding with a second location due to open in Los Altos this month.
The small-batch, artisan ice cream shop will have two prime locations come Nov. 21: the original at Town & Country Village and the new at 201 First St. in downtown Los Altos.
Owner Becky Sunseri ? a former Facebook pastry chef with a deep love for all things sweet ? said the Los Altos shop will be pretty much the same as Palo Alto, but “more streamlined” with 12 instead of 18 flavors. The ice cream will continue to be made at the Palo Alto store’s kitchen and delivered by ? wait for it ? a milkman to 201 First St.
The new space is roughly the same size as Palo Alto’s serving area (most of the Town & Country space is dedicated to a back kitchen and clean room), Sunseri said. There’s also ample outdoor seating.
The second locations’ menu might be smaller than Palo Alto’s, but it will open with some exclusive seasonal flavors, Sunseri said. Don’t miss pumpkin with oatmeal pecan streusel and eggnog with boozy caramel swirl, to name a few.
It will also have the “tried and true” ice cream flavors and Tin Pot’s baked goods and coffee offerings. At Tin Pot, everything ? the ice cream, the toppings, the cones, the baked good add-ins ? is made in-house with locally grown, organic ingredients.
Tin Pot Creamery’s strawberry shortcake, salted butterscotch with gooey brownies, Four Barrel coffee with cocoa nib toffee and rich chocolate with TCHO dark chocolate shards. Photo by Michelle Le.
Sunseri said she’s known for awhile she wanted to open a second location. The Los Altos space, formerly occupied by European Cobblery, recently fell into her lap.
Based on how Los Altos goes, there could be more locations in the works, she said.
“It’s been fun,” Sunseri said. “I’m just trying to ride the momentum.”