Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams

Ice creams built from the ground up with superlative ingredients.

Our first Chicago scoop shop, which opened in September, 2013, is on Southport Avenue at the Brown Line. The sleek, rustic-modern shop—in the heart of the Lakeview neighborhood’s family-and-pedestrian-friendly Southport Corridor—features the full line of built-from-the-ground-up ice creams (and sorbets and frozen yogurts) that Time magazine called “the best in America.”

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10/30/2024

So be it.

10/26/2024

Almost time to turn over a new leaf 🍂 Enjoy the flavors in our fall collection before they’re gone!

As always, availability varies, so call before making a special trip.

10/22/2024

The harvest was bountiful this year.

10/14/2024

Scottsdale, it’s time to party! 🎉Join us for FREE scoops this Wednesday, 10/16 at the grand opening of our second Arizona scoop shop. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the first 50 folks in line will get a free swag bag. Plus, you can enter our giveaway to win free ice cream for a YEAR.

All the deets: www.facebook.com/share/ospnNEyUH8iAneyN/

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The original Cone Coin is back — and all dressed up for Trick-or-Treat. Perfect for handing out on Halloween (1 coin = 1 kids cone). Only in scoop shops, while supplies last!

10/04/2024

There’s this moment when scooping into Sweet Potato Marshmallow Praline that’s pure fall bliss. When the edge of the spoon crashes into a pocket of pralines. Nestled between *just* the right amount of sweet potato and marshmallow creams on the spoonhead. The way the caramelized sugar from the pecans melts into a perfectly candied, crunchy bite … it’s as satisfying as stepping on a crisp autumn leaf, and way more delicious.

10/02/2024

October is elite.

10/01/2024

ONLINE ONLY! Because the only good thing about flu season is … it’s also Hot Toddy season.

Sweet, citrusy orange sorbet. A blast of cayenne and ginger. Refreshing lemon and honey. And the smoothest throat-coating warmth courtesy of premium whiskey.

Available for nationwide shipping only at jenis.com, while supplies last!

09/24/2024

Pumpkin, you’re cute. But we’re crushing on pepitas (tiny green pumpkin seeds) this fall. Pepitas have a delicate, nutty, subtly sweet flavor that makes for a beautiful, downright unctuous ice cream. Almost a kissing cousin to nougat-y pistachio and peanut butter ice creams (fans of our Pistachio Macaron, this is your fall flavor!).

In our Pumpkin Seed & Rye Cookie ice cream, we harness the power of pepitas two ways: toasted pumpkin seed oil and pumpkin seed butter. The oil provides silkiness, nuttiness, and toasty notes. While the butter gives the ice cream decadent texture and depth. To cut through the richness and ground the flavor, we made a rye cookie crumble — using a combo of pumpernickel and rye flours, because they have this wonderful robust flavor that holds its own in the super-aromatic cream. The way it softens, it’s like eating a hearty fall cookie with the ideal savory-salty-sweet balance.

09/23/2024

Hey, Narberth! The only thing better than a party … is a party with free ice cream. 🎉 🍦

Join us this Thursday 9/26 for FREE scoops at the grand opening of our Narberth shop (and swag bags for the first 50 folks in line).

Plus, you can enter our giveaway to win free ice cream for a YEAR.

Doors open at 6 p.m. sharp — see you there?

More details: https://www.facebook.com/share/83cAoYEUrsZKRzrq/

09/21/2024

FALL ORDER SHORTCUT: ask for a Harvest Moon!

The easiest way to enjoy three of our new fall flavors. Bay Leaf Cheesecake, Pumpkin Seed & Rye Cookie, and Sweet Potato Marshmallow Praline, all served in a Buttercrisp Waffle Bowl. A texture-loaded trio of cozy spices, cool herbal notes, and toasted nuttiness.

09/18/2024

Bay Leaf Cheesecake is our tribute to a humble little laurel with a rich culinary history. Before vanilla was widely available, cooks reached for bay leaves to give desserts, especially cream-based ones, brightness and depth of flavor. When steeped in our lush, almost tangy cream cheese ice cream, bay leaves add refreshing and herbaceous depth — with notes of eucalyptus, pine, and thyme. Plus a classic vanilla-like familiarity that’s perfect with our textured graham cracker swirl.

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Miso Butterscotch Brownie. A jaw-dropping balancing act of a flavor. Where sweet, salty, and savory tiptoe across the same delicious tightrope. We start with buttery caramel cream. Then fold in yellow miso, which unlocks layers of umami — the way sprinkling flaky sea salt on a cookie makes everything pop. Dark chocolate (gluten-free!) brownies give fudge-like decadence to every bite.

Available for a limited time in scoop shops, online, and via the Jeni’s app.

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NOW SCOOPING: Pumpkin Seed & Rye Cookie

An ice cream catapulting us into our savory-sweet era (aka fall). Featuring roasted pepitas (tiny green pumpkin seeds) folded into sweet cream two ways — pumpkin seed oil for toasted nuttiness and depth, and pumpkin seed butter for silky-smooth, almost buttery texture. All studded through with a scratch-made rye crumble, resonant with notes of honey and brown sugar and the melt-in-your-mouth texture of a soft-baked cookie. Nutty and nuanced, trust us when we say: This is the flavor of the season.

Enjoy Pumpkin Seed & Rye Cookie for a limited time in shops, online at jenis.com, or via the Jeni’s app.

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Bay Leaf Cheesecake. Tastes like an autumn breeze whistling through a slice of the most glorious vanilla cheesecake ever. We owe all this refreshing depth to the bay leaf — the humble (yet powerful!) little laurel that imparts palate-cooling notes of thyme and vanilla to lush cream cheese ice cream. Textured with a crisp graham cracker swirl that mimics the best homemade crust, Bay Leaf Cheesecake straight-up blooms with fall comfort.

Available for a limited time in shops nationwide, at jenis.com, and for local delivery via the Jeni’s app.

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A new sweet potato ice cream has entered the chat. 🍠 Passing the torch to Sweet Potato Marshmallow Praline!

Real sweet potatoes blended into cream and loaded with cozy spices — like, Vietnamese cinnamon and nutmeg — to emulate a deep, oven-baked flavor. Swirled with bright marshmallow-scented cream, like the topping on a casserole. And bedazzled with pralines that melt into heavenly pockets of caramelized crunch.

Available now in scoop shops, at jenis.com, and for local delivery.

09/05/2024

FALL JUST DROPPED. 🍂

This season, we’re boldly going where no other fall ice creams will take you — expertly navigating the border between sweet and savory. Refreshing and comforting. The familiar and the wholly unexpected.

Because duality is the name of the game this time of year. Cozy sweater weather one minute, hot enough to swim the next. A toss-up between sipping on a hot or iced spiced latte. A savory casserole and a decadent dessert that both feature the same delicious squash.

Our fall collection hits this perfect spot. Like your favorite fall jacket. Four unapologetically autumnal flavors — so you can literally consume fall.

BAY LEAF CHEESECAKE
MISO BUTTERSCOTCH BROWNIE
PUMPKIN SEED & RYE COOKIE
SWEET POTATO MARSHMALLOW PRALINE

Now available for a limited time in scoop shops nationwide, online at jenis.com, and for local delivery via the Jeni’s app.

09/02/2024

Life hack: Recreate our PB&J Parfait at home! Check out the (super easy!) recipe at the link below. It might just be the best PB&J you’ll ever make … though we don’t recommend packing it in a lunchbox.

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08/22/2024

IT’S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME.

Presenting the PB&J Parfait. Our nostalgic homage to the lunchbox staple. Two half scoops of Salted Peanut Butter with Chocolate Flecks — rich, dense, and bursting with roasted peanut flavor. Layered between sweet-tart strawberry sauce and fresh whipped cream. The perfect treat to close out the summer.

The PB&J Parfait is available in scoop shops nationwide for a limited time!

08/21/2024

The 🐐is back online!

Mouthwatering and ethereally light, with just the right amount of tang. Like a scoopable cheesecake with sugar-plumped dried cherries and a deep red cherry sauce.

Goat Cheese with Red Cherries is available at jenis.com for nationwide shipping.

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Bastani Sonnati isn’t just an ice cream — it’s a time capsule. As says:

“I wanted to recreate the feeling of being a 10-year old boy, sneaking into the freezer when my parents weren’t paying attention. I wanted to bring my childhood to ice cream shops all over the country … I really believe we created the best Persian ice cream you can find.”

We’re beyond touched that so many of you have loved our version. Capturing memories and bringing folks together — it’s what this collab with is all about.

Bastani Sonnati will be around to enjoy for just a little longer.

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BASTANI SONNATI. Our collab with . Available now.

Every so often, one of our friends trusts us to recreate a memory through ice cream. That’s what happened when Ben Hundreds asked us to make Bastani Sonnati, or Persian ice cream — one of his favorite childhood desserts.

Our version upholds the traditional flavor profile. With saffron, rose water, and pistachios playing in razor-sharp balance. Fragrant and stunning, this is an ice cream with endless stories to tell.

And … a flavor this special deserved the coolest companion merch. Swipe to see the limited-edition T-shirt, designed by The Hundreds in their signature retro streetwear style.

Enjoy Bastani Sonnati for a limited time in scoop shops nationwide and at The Hundreds Los Angeles flagship store. And order pints and the companion T-shirt (heads up: quantities are VERY limited!) for nationwide shipping at jenis.com/pages/thehundreds and thehundreds.com.

08/04/2024

As far as we’re concerned, the lavender + coffee trend deserves to live forever. Enter the Lavender L’affogato. Wildberry Lavender and Coffee with Cream & Sugar, topped with cold brew. Breezy and beautiful; the perfect summertime pick-me-up.

08/01/2024

Hey — got any plans for Thursday 8/8?

02/06/2019

We just raised 30% more money for She Should Run than we did last year. Help us celebrate and keep pushing the cause. Name great women who should run. Remember that super smart woman you went to grade school with? Tell her to run. That stay at home mom who would be amazing on your city government? That organizing star who should be in office? Tag them here, and let’s encourage great women to run.

01/29/2019

We will be closing tonight at 9 p.m. and will be closed all day tomorrow due to the extreme temperatures. Please stay safe out there!

01/28/2019

Banana French Toast ice cream. A velvety banana custard with pops of pure maple syrup and lots of cinnamon-brown sugar French toast gravel. Only in shops for Ice Cream for Breakfast Day this Saturday, Feb. 2.

01/11/2019

Bouncy as a cloud with flavor as bright as sunshine. 🍋 Jeni first made this gorgeous Lemon Buttermilk Frozen Yogurt more than 20 years ago, inspired by the citrusy sherbets she loved as a kid. It quickly became her favorite flavor and remains so today. 🍋 Made with lemon juice and oil from lemon zest, we add cultured buttermilk and fresh yogurt for the most incredibly creamy, creme fraiche-like texture. Find Lemon BFY in shops and online now!

01/10/2019

Mash together Bananas Foster and crème brûlée and you get this luscious custard. Made with real bananas (no flavorings here!) because it’s the only way to infuse that not too grassy, not too sweet, perfect banana flavor in every bite. A silky egg yolk custard and torched sugar candies pay homage to the classic French dessert. The pièce de résistance? A splash of apple brandy, made with Ohio apples by our friends at Watershed Distillery. This is a top shelf, white tablecloth, silver spoon ice cream if there ever was one. Brandied Banana Brûlée is now in shops, online, and in select grocery stores for a limited time.

01/01/2019

We are open today for normal hours. Happy New Year!

12/31/2018

We are open today from noon to 9 p.m., and for normal hours tomorrow! Grab your first ice cream scoop of 2019 with us tomorrow. Happy New Year!

12/25/2018

We are closed today for Christmas. Happy holidays!

12/24/2018

We will be open today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed tomorrow. Happy holidays!

11/30/2018

Damn, Cognac with Gingerbread. You’re good. There is no greater combination in the world than a good, warm cognac, a dark caramel sauce, and a heavily spiced, blackstrap molasses ginger cake. Our cake recipe is a riff on Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s (Jeni’s favorite holiday cake), but made with extra ginger and molasses. This year we’re crumbling that exact recipe into our Courvoisier ice cream and swirling a slightly darker caramel into it. As you eat it, let the flavors melt and meld on your palate. The notes of cognac roll out of the ice cream one by one. The ginger, the caramel. If ever there was an ice cream tailor-made for winter, it’s this one. And we’re now scooping Cognac with Gingerbread in shops nationwide.

11/21/2018

We will be closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the time with your family and friends! We will be open on Black Friday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

11/08/2018

Now scooping: White Chocolate Peppermint!
Jeni started making this flavor around the holidays nearly two decades ago—because there's just something about white chocolate and peppermint that screams holiday time. Made with pure peppermint oil for a fresh, palate-cooling mint flavor, and white chocolate specks for texture and an air of decadence. Just for fun, and because it reminds Jeni of her grandmother's peppermint cookies, we gave this normally all-white ice cream a pink swirl using all natural fruit and vegetable juices. White Chocolate Peppermint is now available in pints and scoops in shops nationwide.

11/06/2018

Today is the day. Get out and vote. No excuses. Cast your ballot for love, to support your community—because what you have to say matters. When we all speak up, that's when real change—real democracy—happens.

11/06/2018

Remember, the conversation doesn't stop at the polls. Grab a friend, a cohort, a colleague across the aisle, and talk to them. Our guess is you have a lot more in common than you think. Maybe that conversation even happens over ice cream? Have it tomorrow, Election Day, at a shop and we'll throw in an extra scoop to your order to keep the discussion going longer. Find your polling place here: https://jen.is/2ADxMEF

11/04/2018

Stop into a scoop shop on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, and we’ll add an extra scoop to your order of a standard or single. Now let’s get out there and vote! Find your polling place here: https://jen.is/2ADxMEF

10/17/2018

We will be closed tonight due to maintenance. We will keep you posted when we are back open and scooping!

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3404 N Southport Avenue
Chicago, IL
60657

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 11:30pm
Tuesday 12pm - 11:30pm
Wednesday 12pm - 11:30pm
Thursday 12pm - 11:30pm
Friday 11am - 12am
Saturday 11am - 12am
Sunday 11am - 11:30pm

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