The best ice cream shops Pyrénées-Atlantiques

The Mendiburu family, who specialize in dairy production in Bardos, have started making their own ice creams and sorbets. While they make classic flavors (chocolate, caramel, hazelnut, rum raisin, etc.) directly on their farm, these atypical ice-cream makers also offer their own creations: Patxaran ice cream, cherry and crème fraîche ice cream, cucumber sorbet, raspberry-lime-Espelette pepper sorbet, crème brûlée omelette...

This artisan ice-cream maker, the only one in the Basque region to hold the Glaces Artisanales de France label and winner of the Talents gourmands 2017 competition, offers refreshing sweets with flavors as classic as they are singular. Manufactured to a demanding quality charter, Bastidarra milk, sorbets made with 45% fruit, flavors adapted to the seasons (including, of course, must-haves like dark chocolate sorbet, cremino, lemon meringue, raspberry...), not forgetting logs and frozen pastries. A wide range of sweet treats are also available.

This blue truck is well known by all the inhabitants of Palois: these ice creams cannot be forgotten. Georgio has the secret of these perfect preparations, entirely home-made, always fresh, made with natural products (fruits, vegetables, herbs, creams, pistachio paste, hazelnut or cocoa...). You can't be disappointed. Even the cone is handmade with butter and fresh eggs. The variety of flavors is impressive with daily 34 different flavors and up to 230 possible recipes. The taste buds are guaranteed to be amazed!

Ranked no. 1 for the best vanilla ice creams in 2019 by a famous gastronomic guide, Mathieu Bargeton makes his high-quality frozen delights, sorbets and pastries with respect for tradition from his laboratory in Ascain. Here, it's not quantity, but quality that's the hallmark. Cow's milk ice cream, marcona almond ice cream, homemade caramel ice cream, "chocahuète" ice cream... but also sudachi sorbets, soursop sorbets... And let's not forget the tasty Brussels waffles and homemade crêpes you can enjoy overlooking the bay of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

A fine CV for this already renowned Saint-Jean-de-Luz establishment, which has now set up shop in its Anglet "cabane" overlooking the ocean. Generations of people, young and old, have enjoyed their ice creams (40 flavors), made with the finest natural ingredients from the Basque country. It's hard to choose between the ice creams, sorbets and the house specialty, the Krakada, the must-have waffle made with vanilla and sourdough brioche dough, topped with apricot, raspberry or strawberry marmalade, dark chocolate sauce or hazelnut chocolate.

Since 1924, many generations have enjoyed the ice creams and sorbets of Maison Lopez, a veritable institution in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. For decades, the same spirit of tradition and recipes has gone into the making of classics and new flavors. Here, the craftsmen are committed to respecting the authenticity of natural taste, without colorants or other additives. Ice creams made with fruit from local orchards, milk from the Basque region for the ice creams... All homemade, including sorbets.