Glotomania.Oax — Restaurant in Oaxaca

Highly recommend this amazing business! 100% vegan ice cream (including the cones!), nieves, and popsicles! Delicious and creative flavors including ginger/coconut charcoal and Oaxacan chocolate.

Also, this is more than just great ice cream. Jorge and his family are such kind souls. They employ, for example, deaf people and other folks who may have trouble finding work. (You can write your order on a piece of paper, no problem). We also had the pleasure of meeting Jorge’s girlfriend Liz, who helped us by answering our questions in English. The flavor we wanted wasn’t there because they had a stall at a little market in the city center that day, and they had already brought that flavor to the stall. So what did Liz do? She gave us— 2 complete strangers— a ride in her car to the market, so we could order that flavor!!! This level of hospitality and kindness is just something you don’t experience often, and it is a travel memory that we will be talking about for many years.

Did I mention the ice cream is delicious?!

I can’t recommend this place...

I did appreciate that everything tasted as it should. Strawberry icecream tastes of actual strawberries. And chocolate has a nice earthy flavor which punches at your tongue. But I must say that the texture just doesn’t do it for me. It needs some work. It just leaves too sticky of a feeling in your mouth and the formed ice crystals aren’t fluffy enough for my taste. I guess it’s because of too much fructose. The waffel was also a bit too firm for the bite, but I guess that’s secondary. With some adjustments this could be a great place - the vegan concept and the vibe bring you already half there but the icecream better...

It is such a beautiful place because of the obvious love and dedication that has been poured into the business. The family was so helpful in explaining the differences in flavors and letting me taste as many as I desired. Not only are the focused on accessibility, they are also supporting sustainability, as evidenced by their compost toilet to save water! Very cool and very appreciated. Oh, and not to mention, they don't use any milk products AND the ice cream is phenomenal!!! Thank you for helping to care for all of us and the environment. Best of luck in...