Saadi, a cultural documentarian who after years of traveling around the world and developing culinary skills along the way, wanted to return to California to embark on a new venture and share his artistic & culinary experience with the folks back home.
Adar, who while finishing law school at the University of San Francisco, decided he would rather join the small business sector and interact with the community in which he lives and loves, instead of serving the legal interests of corporations
We consider everyone on our team to be family. As representatives of our business, we have our staff know that friendly, welcoming service is cornerstone to the environment we wish to provide. We continuously work with our team members so that they are knowledgable about not only our ingredients, process, and business practices but about the industry in general. As owners of a business, we find it imperative to pay above minimum wage and require the best and most welcoming customer service the city has to offer.
Hometown Creamery Brings Homemade Ice Cream To The Inner Sunset
"After a series of mysterious signs appeared in the window of the former Hotei Sushi at 1290 9th Ave., brothers Adar and Saadi Halil have dispelled the mystery and unveiled a new ice cream shop called Hometown Creamery. According to Adar, opening a business at 9th & Irving fulfilled a long-term aspiration... Read More
Hometown Creamery Goes to Great Lengths for Its Ice Cream
"There is no question that the Castro has too many cafes, or that Russian Hill has too much beige, but San Francisco can probably never have too much ice cream. With a couple of exceptions, artisanal dairy desserts have clung to the precincts east of Twin Peaks, but the Inner Sunset’s ever-denser foodie corridor now has its own: the fraternally run Hometown Creamery, on Ninth Avenue at Irving... Read More
Where to find the BEST Ice Cream in The Bay
SF Hometown Creamery
This brand new spot just opened its Inner Sunset doors in this month. It is run by two brothers with a passion for ice cream and the neighborhood (one of the brothers was determined to end up on this exact block since they hatched the idea, 5 years ago). In addition to creative, house-made flavor combinations, such as candied orange peel, pistachio and almond, Hometown Creamery makes their ice creams completely from scratch (most purchase a premade vanilla base) so they had to get a pasteurizer’s license and build a specific sanitized room for the process. We suggest stopping in for a taste of their hard work!...Read More
