Chill is a new dessert café in the Financial District offering cupcakes, frozen yogurt, frozen custard and crepes. I opted to try their sundae, the Crispy Crepe Cone ($5.50) and selected a coconut crepe, dulce de leche syrup (which winds its way through the crepe) and wonderfully tart black sesame frozen yogurt. There is a topping option as well, but I decided to just focus on these three flavors. It's a little bit more of a balancing act than a typical sundae, but it's worth the effort. Chill is located at 125 Kearny (at Post). —Tamara Palmer

Winner of our Best Ice Cream category in the 2008 Best of SF, La Copa Loca Artisan Gelateria features handmade frozen delights created by Italian ex-pat Mauro Pislor. His homeland pride shines through with the clever Ice Spaghetti Pomodoro sundae cup ($5), which begins with a layer of marshmallow cream, topped by vanilla gelato, fresh strawberry sauce and white chocolate shavings that look like Parmesan sprinkles. It provides a perfect refresher on a sizzling day like today. La Copa Loca Artisan Gelateria is located at 3150 22nd St (at Capp). —Tamara Palmer

Look, we can't be good and eat salads all the time, so we've created the new and recurring Friday Sundae to redress the balance and offer some sweet ways to kick off the weekend. Our first selection is an adventurous, yet rewarding journey: Jollibee, the leading fast food chain in the Philippines, offers one of the funkiest frozen desserts in town with its Halo Halo ($4.59).

Halo means mix in Tagalog, and this concoction is a multilayered sensation of ingredients meant to be mixed together, creating what a friend likes to call a sort of "trippy, sweet soup." A layer of condensed milk is topped with shaved ice, sweetened mung and white beans, ube (purple yam) ice cream and paste, langka (jackfruit) ice cream, leche flan (custard) and nata de coco (almost Jello-like cubes made from coconut water). It's fun to try all the bits separately at first before blending; be careful not to gobble up all the leche flan and nata de coco first, though. Jollibee is located at 200 4th St. (at Howard). —Tamara Palmer