My Favorite Ice Cream in Sevilla

Sometimes it's hot and you want an ice cream. Obviously, the best ice cream in that situation will be the closest ice cream shop to your current location. However, if you're willing to travel, I was really impressed by the ice cream at Frío Fino, which is part of the Manu Jara chain of bakeries.* Plus the location of the heladería is divine: right next to Santa Ana Church in Triana on the Calle Pureza. Absolute Triana-maxxing both with location and the "local" flavors.

they put a little palmera on top of the ice cream, a  nice touch

I tried several flavors over the weeks of summer. The flavors were all good in their own way and only one was inedible. Here is my ranking:

The best ice cream flavor at Manu Jara Frio Fino Heladería:

1. Vanilla. (pictured above). Vanilla or "vainilla" is actually a hard flavor to find in Spain. More common to find "crema" or nougat is more common as the 'basic" flavor. You don't realize you miss vanilla until it's hard to find! Manu Jara's vanilla ice cream was my favorite.

The most Sevilla-coded flavor IMHO:

2. Palmera. Little pieces of crispy elephant ear pastry in ice cream. So good, like biting into a flakey palmera pastry, but it was the cool ice cream version of eating a palmera. (I know that's not very descriptive, but it was like the old ben and jerry's chocolate brownie ice cream from the 90s, when the brownies actually had the taste and texture of brownies and not "gummy chocolate cake product." Except it was palmera, of course) 

Delightful and unexpected:

3. Yogur de Amarena. Sour cherry yogurt. Very sour in a good way. Plenty 'o cherry bits. I love cherries and sour things and Spanish yogurt (because it actually tastes like yogurt), so I loved this flavor.

Too real for me:

4. 70% Chocolate or whatever it was called. This was dark chocolate. it was too intensely chocolately for me. El Andaluz's favorite, he ordered this every time we went.

My least favorite:

5. The worst was the speciality limited-edition flavor that was Bailey's, palmera, and yema (burned sweet egg yolk), because it tasted like mantecados (Spanish Christmas spice cookies, a VERY acquired taste). Which is probably what people love about it but I should have considered my own tastebuds before ordering it out of FOMO, since everyone else in line was ordering it. 

They have several other flavors like hazelnut chocolate and pistachio and huelva strawberry sorbets, plus some complicated puff pastry shell sundae thing, but I like what I like and the vanilla was so good i kept ordering that all summer. I tried the cones and they were nothing special so I stuck with bowls for ease of eating (40 degrees celsius and ice cream gets drippy fast!). 

Be forewarned these are very small servings, maybe a 1/2 cup for the small. I think I spent around 7 euros each time for 2 small servings. 

Where is Frio Fina? C. Pureza, 83, 41010 Sevilla, Spain right next to the Iglesia de Santa Ana in Triana. You can actually walk along Calle Betis from the Plaza de Cuba or the Puente de Triana and turn down Calle Duarte to get there faster with a nice river view (although walking along Calle Pureza is, in itself, a form of Triana-maxxing.) Plus nice to walk along the river with the ice cream afterwards. No bathrooms or seating in the shop, it's strictly take-out with two tall tables out front on the sidewalk. Accepts credit cards with a tap, which is always nice when you are juggling handfuls of ice cream. I think it's open from 3 pm to 11 most days and a little later on weekends. Closed mondays. But google it--this is current as of summer 2026. 

* Disclaimer: I don't like Manu Jara's pastries (too heavy and sweet for my tastes), but the ice cream is divine.