I live walking distance from Salt & Straw in Venice but I hadn’t yet managed to try the ice cream because the line always seems so long. Yesterday afternoon after another late lunch at Gjelina (lamb sausage pizza - yay), I stuck my head in and confirmed that one doesn’t need to stand in line to buy the prepackaged pints so I picked up a couple to bring to dinner at a friend’s house last night. We had chocolate gooey brownie and almond brittle with salted ganache and they were both really really good. Huge chunks of delicious brownie in the former. A couple people got bites of the latter that they found unpleasantly salty but that didn’t happen to me - I found that the two together in one bowl created the perfect mix of salty and sweet 
. Sweet Rose Creamery is the other fancy ice cream shop in our regular rotation, but based upon this one sampling I think I prefer Salt & Straw for both texture and flavor.
As a side note, the special flavors this month are the Fermentation Series. Maybe I just have plebeian taste in ice cream, but I wasn’t even tempted to taste any of them. Two of them - fish sauce caramel and dill pickle sorbet - sounded actively unpleasant to me. But maybe a more adventurous soul will give them a try.