https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/11/the-best-ice-cream-sundaes-in-the-bay-area/

At the new Ghirardelli Chocolate Experience Store in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square, you can smell the elements of your ice cream sundae coming together: Freshly roasted nuts and rich, just-melted chocolate, made at Ghirardelli’s San Leandro factory and mixed with milk and vanilla to create hot fudge. Naturally, they offer it in milk and dark chocolate.

The recently renovated Ghirardelli Original Ice Cream Shop, part of a three-phase project slated to be finished by 2024, brings what is perhaps the most famous sundae — a 12-ouncer with top-and-bottom fudge, two scoops of vanilla, crushed almonds, whipped topping and a cherry — into the modern era. It’s served at a marquee-lit bar, where custom Heath Ceramic tiles in signature Ghirardelli blue sparkle against views of the San Francisco Bay. And if that’s not enough, they’re coming out with a non-dairy, almond milk-based sundae this fall.