{"id":256022,"date":"2026-07-31T03:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256022\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:31:19","slug":"reading-terminal-market-ice-cream-festival-2026-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256022\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Terminal Market Ice Cream Festival 2026: What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ice-cream.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Reading Terminal Market\u2019s Ice Cream Festival <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Reading Terminal Market is bringing together local ice cream makers, unusual frozen desserts and family activities for an afternoon dedicated to one of summer\u2019s favorite treats.<\/p>\n<p>   When is the Ice Cream Festival? <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readingterminalmarket.org\/event\/ice-cream-festival-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reading Terminal Market\u2019s Ice Cream Festival<\/a> will take place from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, on the 1100 block of Filbert Street and inside the market.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The festival is free to attend, with food and merchandise available for purchase separately. It will be held rain or shine, with the outdoor portion covered along Filbert Street.<\/p>\n<p> Which ice cream vendors will be there? <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Seven vendors are scheduled to serve frozen treats outside the market:<\/p>\n<p> Bassetts Ice CreamCloud CupsHangry Bear CreameryIrv\u2019s Ice CreamMilk JawnThe Mango HutTubby Robot <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The lineup includes traditional ice cream, small-batch gelato, fruit sorbet and flavors influenced by Latin American ingredients.<\/p>\n<p> Ice cream specials inside the market <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Reading Terminal Market merchants will also offer festival-only desserts and ice cream-inspired food throughout the building.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The listed specials include horchata ice cream from El Merkury, build-your-own ice cream sandwiches from Famous 4th Street Cookie Co., ube and mango ice cream from Tambayan and sour cherry labneh ice cream from Saami Somi.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Other options include an ice cream croissant and ice cream bagel from Market Bakery, peach cobbler funnel cake with vanilla ice cream from Fox and Son Fancy Corn Dogs and a warm vegan brownie with vegan vanilla ice cream from LUHV Vegan Deli.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Adults can also find a boozy affogato at Pennsylvania Libations and mango-apricot prosecco sorbet at Molly Malloy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p> Contests and activities <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The festival will feature multiple ice cream-eating contests, with winners competing for the title of Ice Cream Festival Eating Contest Champion.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Other activities include a DJ, live custom airbrush T-shirts, balloon twisting, henna and appearances by Reading Terminal Market mascot Philbert.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Children\u2019s activities will include face painting, ice cream coloring pages, sugar-sand art necklaces and an ice cream truck photo opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information published by Reading Terminal Market.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/things-to-do-philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Things To Do<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Reading Terminal Market\u2019s Ice Cream Festival PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Reading Terminal Market is bringing together local ice cream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[837,139,539,69,71,70,10070,593],"class_list":["post-256022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-things-to-do-philadelphia","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}