This iconic family-run Italian bakery and gelateria has been pleasing ice cream fanatics for more than 120 years with classic flavors like Sicilian pistachio, stracciatella (chocolate chip), and salted caramel. Also home to a great spumoni, freshly piped cannoli, and a huge variety of Italian cookies. Be prepared for a line out the door after dinner on weekends, though it’s a pleasant wait.

Part wine bar, part jam shop, part brunch spot — Bar Pomona does it all. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, pair a glass of natty wine with fresh soft serve, made in-house. Rotating flavors like strawberry and blood orange can be topped with delights like Luxardo cherries, chili crisp, and chocolate tahini. There’s also tiramisu, and keep an eye out for special appearances by cookies, cake by Bronwen Wyatt of Bayou Saint Cakes, and other occasional sweets. Incredible donuts are available during weekend brunch service.

This unassuming Creole cottage may be the best place for a romantic night cap in the French Quarter, if not the entire city. The bar’s extravagant desserts pair just as well with the dreamy courtyard as it does with one of Chris Hannah and team’s refined, precise cocktails. Though the desserts change, expect the incorporation of spirits and savory flavors — for example, an Eccles cake served with Point Reyes blue cheese or a rum baba with Chantilly cream.

This pastry shop is New Orleans’s answer to the French-born Ladurée: Instagrammable, pastel, and displaying rows of treats almost too pretty to consume. Sucré is best known for its creamy gelato, colorful macaroons, specialty chocolates, and photogenic desserts. You won’t find cocktails here, so this is definitely for a more wholesome end to the night, but there isn’t a lack of liquid treats here. Try one of their milkshakes, flavored lattes, Ashwagandha, lavender London fog, or matcha fizz. The French Quarter location is now joined by Magazine Street and a new Freret Street outpost.

Not sure if it’s ice cream or coffee you’re craving? Why not both? Drip Affogato Bar has new digs on Camp Street, saying it outgrew its original Warehouse District digs after an interior revamp. Specializing in the traditional Italian dessert, Drip’s gelato flavors may include praline, Bourbon Street beignet, and bananas Foster, just to name a few. Enjoy it in the comfort of this small but mighty café with eclectic décor that feels like it’s straight out of Alice in Wonderland. Many options on the cocktail menu can also double as dessert.

The ice cream sandwich is one of those traditional desserts that takes you back to childhood. Whether it was at the pool, on the porch, by campfire, or at a birthday party, the reliable ice cream sandwich was a summer staple. Luckily, the Chloe’s version can still be experienced at the boutique hotel’s pool, by a fire pit on the St. Charles Avenue porch, or after a birthday celebration in the dining room. It includes a two-inch slice of brown butter ice cream snuggled in between two huge praline crunch cookies, and it tastes even better than childhood. Seasonal hand pies are another highlight.

Piccola Gelateria is more than excellent gelato, sorbet, and dairy-free vegan sorbet. This sweet, family-run Magazine Street shop also serves stellar sweet and savory crepes, piadina (Italian flatbread), gelato cakes, affogato, and coffee. For the gelato, there’s traditional flavors and others: sea salt caramel, tiramisu, licorice, blueberry, rose petal, king cake, biscotti, and stracciatella. Open until 9 p.m. every night.

Part coffee shop, part café, part bar, the Vintage on Magazine Street thrives with its array of offerings in a city full of people who like to start the day with a cocktail, end with caffeine, and enjoy a beignet at any time of day without waiting in the line at Café du Monde. That said, the options include traditional, beignet bites, and stuffed seasonal flavors like S’more or raspberry-filled. Close out the night (or start the day) in this cozy, Parisian-inspired cafe with a beignet flight, accompanied by some bubbles and good company. Open until 10 p.m. on weekends.