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.