Is Fentons Creamery Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Oakland, CA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 4, Episode 9

Fentons Creamery is a historic ice cream parlor and restaurant on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, according to Wikipedia. The parlor is described as the longest continually operating creamery in the state, historically sourcing milk from a small herd of dairy cows in West Marin. A site check on 2026-09-08 found the restaurant's website, fentonscreamery.com, listing 2025 copyright dates and current hours for the Oakland location, including active online ordering for ice cream and food. The site also listed additional locations, a food truck inquiry form, and a custom cake ordering option, indicating an actively managed multi-channel operation alongside the original Piedmont Avenue parlor.

Food Paradise, Season 15, Episode 10

S15E10 ('The Bucket List') featured Fentons Creamery's housemade ice cream and sundaes on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, according to the restaurant's website (fentonscreamery.com). Fentons Creamery is a historic ice cream parlor and restaurant, and it is California's longest continually operating creamery, maintaining a small herd of dairy cows in West Marin, according to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-11). A 2026-09-08 check of fentonscreamery.com found an active online ordering option, a custom cake shop, and a food-truck inquiry form, with hours listed as 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, according to the restaurant's website.

Man v. Food, Season 10, Episode 4 Aired September 27, 2022

Casey Webb's first Oakland stop was Fentons Creamery, a longstanding ice cream parlor and restaurant that the business says has served the Bay Area for more than a century. He tried the Banana Special, a large sundae built on a sliced banana with three scoops of ice cream in rocky road, vanilla, and strawberry flavors, then topped with crushed pineapple, strawberry and chocolate fudge sauces, chopped almonds, whipped cream, and a cherry; the rocky road flavor is one the business credits itself with originating. This was a tasting stop rather than a timed challenge. The company's official website remains active, offering online ordering and listing two current locations, in Oakland and at the Nut Tree in Vacaville, though the site's footer copyright is dated 2025 rather than 2026.