2025 Centurion Award winner
Fentons Creamery
Best Ice Cream Parlor in Oakland · Oakland, CA
Best Ice Cream Parlor in Oakland · Oakland, CA
Fentons Creamery has scooped house-made ice cream on Oakland's Piedmont Avenue since 1894, a bustling parlor famous for towering sundaes and its signature Black & Tan — a toasted-almond-and-caramel creation whose flavor the Fenton family invented. It earned a new generation of fans as a setting in Pixar's 'Up.'
More than 125 years on, Fentons remains a raucous, all-ages Oakland institution where the crab-salad-and-sundae lunch and the enormous banana splits are a rite of Bay Area childhood.
Each Centurion Award is a dated record tied to one year’s evaluation — earned annually, never carried over. Open a year for the full citation and verification details.
Awards run one calendar year and renew only if the business clears the bar again. Selection is by published criteria, never for sale.
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This page is the standing record for Fentons Creamery (2025). It was not bought, voted on, or sponsored — only winners are published, and an award that stops holding up is revoked, not quietly removed. For hours, bookings, and live reviews, go straight to the business itself.
If you’ve put in the years, you may already clear the bar. Evaluation is free, private, and never for sale.