Kurt Farm Shop

"This famous Vashon Island creamery maintains a toehold on the mainland in the Chophouse Row Building on Capitol Hill. It sells cheese, including the gooey bloomy-rinded Dinah's treasured by top Northwest chefs. But all products pale beside the simple richness of Kurtwood Farms ice cream. Churned on-site in Seattle, it's made with Jersey cream and milk, organic cane sugar, and pastured eggs. Yes, you can order farm-fresh flavors, like bay laurel, lemon verbena, and even Sungold tomato jam. But connoisseurs prefer the real deal, straight up. "The taste is pure Puget Sound, it's the grass the cows are eating," notes the Emerald City's columnist-in-chief Dan Savage."

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"Kurt Farm Shop, the hyperlocal ice cream shop supplied by Vashon Island’s Kurtwood Farms, is looking to sell its wee 285-square-foot storefront in Capitol Hill’s bustling Chophouse Row. The shop sells cheese and neon-yellow bricks of butter for $15 a pound alongside (and sometimes in) the custard, all produced from the milk of the Jersey cows displayed in the shop’s beautiful, cheeky pin-ups." - Adam H. Callaghan