Noble Folk Ice Cream & Pie Bar — Restaurant in Healdsburg

IMPORTANT #CELIAC UPDATE IF YOU HAVE CELIAC DO NOT GO HERE!

They are no longer gluten-free! #NOTGLUTENFREE! Or according to the employee who was trying to gaslight me tonight (I will explain that below) they have NEVER BEEN GLUTEN-FREE.

I went in to grab some yummie gluten-free cupcakes, and noticed that there was only one cake platter in the case. I was prepared to be told that they were sold out of the gluten-free items, but NO--what I was told was actually more horrifying. The "gluten-free" cupcakes were cozied up and cuddling with the death cupcakes. She reaches to grab me one.

Me, "Oh sorry, are those plated with the normal people cupcakes"

Her "Yes, that is how we always do it."

Me: "Actually, all the times I have been here before they are on a separate plate, or back in a fridge. I always ask about cross-contamination and have been assured they are maintained separately."

Her: "Maybe you normally go to Santa Rosa. They even come in the same box loose with all the normal cupcakes."

So casual. Absolutely NO UNDERSTANDING of how this was a flagrant violation of safe food handling for allergies and trying to convince me that I must normally travel out of town to another location to get them. SMH.

So, either this employee is absolutely terribly trained...or all the employees before for the past several years were lying to me.

Take your pick. Regardless, all answers = completely #unsafeforceliac #notglutenfree #celiacdeath.

I am leaving my original review as proof that yes, the healdsburg location is the one I used to get my treats from.

Fantastic service! They were sold out of most #gluten-free baked goods, but I scored a raspberry lemon cupcake and it was FANTASTIC!!! Plenty of tangy frosting, and the raspberry filling was delightful! I also tried their blood-orange raspberry sorbet, tasted more like a dreamy creamsicle, so that was a surprise, but super creamy...

After a round of wine flight tastings at Kendall Jackson, we headed out to Healdsburg for some more wine and dinner. But first, we decided to explore the city. We used this time to find some dessert and found Noble Folk through a quick Yelp search as a nearby sweets shop.

Walking up to the front door, I was enamored by its charming handwritten signs for "our daily menu." It had listings for ice cream and pies, but they had flavors that were not typical such as ginger + yuzu, miso butterscotch + pecan, lucky charms and almond matcha. With interesting flavors as these, we made our way in....all eight of us.

The shop is pretty small with minimal tables, so with us and a few other patrons, this spot looked poppin in not time. If ice cream is not your thing, there's always pie! I decided to check out there selection for the day. Pies of the day were Aztec Chocolate, Peach Raspberry, Salted Honey, Lemon Custard and Peanut Caramel. I decided to get a slice of the Peach Raspberry since that looked like a staple trade, but I was thinking long and hard about the Lemon Custard topped with blueberries.

The pie crust was flaky and my favorite part of the pie. Overall, the peach raspberry did not meet my expectations since I was anticipating more of a tart flavor than sweet. The peach was prominent with fruits in the center and the raspberry was more of a sauce that the peaches were bake with. It was good, but I guess I was hoping for more tart than sweet.

Noble Folk and their sister bakery, Moustache, pride themselves on providing customers with beautifully handmade ice cream and scratch made pies using the best farmed ingredients Healdsburg has to offer. Their pies are made from traditional recipes, which you can definitely taste! If I find myself in Santa Rosa, definitely will need to buy more pie to take home to share...

It says here that Noble Folk Ice Cream And Pie Bar is on Matheson Street, but if you ask me it's right at the intersection of Sinful and Heavenly.

Noble Folk is the the reason why you should refuse the dessert menu at your favorite nearby restaurant. A nice after-dinner stroll will bring you to a sparkling old-timey ice cream parlor right there on the Healdsburg Square.

The first thing we did after we walked in was to ooooh and aaahhh while watching other patrons' choices go by. Nobody seemed to be able to get to the table without digging a spoon into their mound of frosty choice.

The ice cream at Noble Folk is so creamy-rich and so deliciously flavored that it must be a sin. But it can't be sinful, ...I feel like I'm in Heaven! The flavors are imaginative, and yet familiar. Who doesn't love Thai Tea? The Cornflake Maple brings out the Saturday-morning kid in all of us. Almond Butter and Jelly?! Oh, my! Looks like I'm gonna spend all my allowance here.

What could be better?! I'll tell you what... handmade Pie ...a la Mode, that's what! We had the Lemon Blueberry Pie, with a hint of Thyme... topped with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. Totally swoon-worthy.

Soon, I will slip off to the Healdsburg Square again, and discreetly duck into the door of Noble Folk, every chance I get.... ssssshhhhhhh! Don't tell...