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Vice President Joe Biden campaigned for Senator Jeff Merkley at a rally at the Oregon Convention Center October 8, 2014. Later they stopped for ice cream at Salt and Straw in NE Portland. The Vice President payed for his and Merkley's cones, posed for pictures with patrons and staff, then headed for the airport.

(The Oregonian)

Salt & Straw's creative ice cream gospel is spreading to another California city.

By spring 2017, the Portland-based shop, known for flavors like salted caramel Thanksgiving turkey and gingerbread cookie dough, will open its ninth West Coast location in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The shop will open in a 2,400-square-foot space at 2201 Fillmore St., in a former Evolution Fresh. Plans are also already in motion for a second San Francisco shop in the city's Hayes Valley neighborhood.

According to an interview with co-owner Kim Malek in the Chronicle, the "culinary similarities between Portland and the Bay Area -- specifically the push for locally sourced and seasonal offerings -- were big reasons for the move."

Salt & Straw has four Portland locations, four Los Angeles locations and an upcoming shop in San Francisco at 2201 Fillmore St.

-- Samantha Bakall

sbakall@oregonian.com

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