It’s here (and quite frankly, has been here for a few weeks): pumpkin season. No matter that the temperatures JUST dropped in the last week. Pumpkin craze hits as soon as fall begins, regardless of what it feels like outside.
Need your pumpkin fix? Charlotte has a lot to offer. Take a look, and let us know what we missed.
Note: These pumpkin-y items were available at the time of research for and publication of this article. Menus subject to change at all mentioned locations.
Ice Cream
Not Your Mamas Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream // Two Scoops Creamery
Pumpkin Spice Ice Cream // Golden Cow Creamery
Pumpkin 5-Spice Ice Cream // Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
Pumpkin Spice Ice Cream // The Local Scoop
Pumpkin Ice Cream and Pumpkin Milkshake // Ninety’s Ice Cream
Pumpkin Pecan Praline Ice Cream // The Percantile and Creamery
Sweet Treats
Pumpkin Spice and Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake Cupcakes // SAS Cupcakes
Pumpkin Pie popGelato // Popbar
Pumpkin Cannoli // Inizio Pizza
Salted Pecan Pumpkin Fudge // Iva Jean’s Fudge
Vegan Pumpkin Donut // Move That Dough Baking Co.
Spiced Pumpkin Tea Cake, Spice Pumpkin + Cream Cheese Entremet, Pumpkin Pecan Praline Macaron // Amelie’s
Boxcar Pumpkin Cupcake // Fu Man Chu Cupcakes
Pumpkin Pie Oh My Concrete (Suarez Pumpkin Pie) // Shake Shack
[available through October]
Pumpkin Spice Croissant // Renaissance Patisserie
Pumpkin Spice Latte Cupcake and Maple Pecan Pumpkin Cupcake // Cupcrazed
[flavors change daily]
Pumpkin Pie Waffle // Cast Iron Waffles
Pumpkin Pie Donuts // Your Mom’s Donuts
Pumpkin Bread, Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread, Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes, Baked Pumpkin Doughnuts // Suarez
[doughnuts available on Saturdays only]
Pumpkin Muffins, Pumpkin Spice Latte Donut, Pumpkin Cheesecake // Big View Bakery
[cheesecake starts 11/1]
Pumpkin Icing Donut // Duck Donuts
Apple Pumpkin Butter Doughnut // Reigning Doughnuts
[only available 10/29 – 11/4 if it wins Voter’s Choice]
Pumpkin Muffin // Parliament
Pumpkin Macaron // Le Macaron
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies, Pumpkin Butterscotch Roll, Famous Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Apple Muffin, Pumpkin Scones, Pumpkin Cake, Pumpkin French Macarons // Sunflour Baking Company
[available items may vary daily]
Pumpkin Blondie (with chai gelato, brown sugar caramel, salted vanilla pecans) // Rooster’s (Uptown and SouthPark)
Three Layer Pumpkin Cake (with spiced maple cream cheese icing) // Copain Gatherings
[special order only]
Pumpkin Chocolate Truffles // The Percantile and Creamery
Pumpkin and Cream Cheese Cake by Majid Amoorpour // Not Just Coffee (South End)
Pumpkin Cheesecake Truffles and Pumpkin Spice Cookies // Hey Sugar Shop
Pumpkin Pancakes //Â Poppy’s Bagels
Pumpkin Crème Brûlée // Bulla Gastrobar
Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake, Pumpkin Muffins, Pumpkin Macarons // Bar Cocoa
[muffins available at breakfast]
Pumpkin Cheesecake (whole or mini) // Cheesecake Carousel
Pumpkin Pie Tartlets (with cinnamon meringue, smoked pecan streusel, salted vanilla gelato) // 5Church
Pumpkin Cheesecake Crepe Roll (with homemade pumpkin ice cream, whip, graham cracker crumble) // Crepe Cellar
[special only – no guarantee of availability]
Pumpkin Spice Cookie Dough // Cookie Dough Bliss
Pumpkin Pecan Crumb Cake // Community Culinary School of Charlotte
Pumpkin Muffins and Pumpkin Scones // Central Coffee
Beer
Gourd Have Mercy (Pumpkin Amber) // Sycamore Brewing
Pumking (Yam Beer) // Brewers at 4001 Yancey
Gordgeous (Pumpkin Ale) // NoDa Brewing
King Don’s Pumpkin Ale // Catawba Brewing
Chai Jacked Pumpkin Chai Spiced Cider // Red Clay Ciderworks
Savories
Pumpkin Pizza (pumpkin cream base, buffalo mozzarella, ricotta, basil) // Inizio Pizza
Pump Up The Jam Toast (pumpkin jam, cinnamon maple whipped goat cheese, toasted pumpkin seeds) // Queen City Grounds
Pumpkin Agnolotti (with wood-oven roasted squash, pepitas, sage, brown butter, pumpkin oil) // WP Kitchen + Bar
Butternut Soup (spicy butternut, pumpkin seeds, scallion crema) // B.GOOD
Pumpkin Bagels and Pumpkin Cream Cheese // Poppy’s Bagels
Coffee/Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Fall Spice Latte ft. Lil Pump // South End Grind
Pumpkin Spice Latte and Pumpkin Spice Slushee // Cuplux
Vegan Pumpkin Spiced Latte // Fern, Flavors From The Garden
Pagan Pumpkin (Pumpkin Spiced Drink) // Subsecreto
Pumpkin Pie In A Cup (Pumpkin Chai Latte) // Brakeman’s Coffee
Pumpkin Spice Latte // Sunflour Baking Company
Pumpkin Spice Latte // Crane Coffee Company
Pumpkin Pie Latte // Central Coffee
Gorgeous Gourd (latte with pumpkin chai spice syrup) // Trade and Lore
Pumpkin Spice Latte // Reid’s Fine Foods (Uptown)
Pumpkin Spice Latte // The Percantile and Creamery
Oh My Gourd (pumpkin gelato and espresso blended with maple syrup, topped with maple whipped cream) and Cascara Pumpkin Cider (pumpkin juice sweetened with cascara syrup, topped with whipped cream and cascara garnish) //Â Queen City Grounds
The Pumpkin One Smoothie, The Pumpkin One with Cold Brew Smoothie, The Fall Smoothie Bowl // Clean Juice
Pumpkin Spice Tea // Verde
Pumpkin Oolong Milk Tea // Kung Fu Tea
Cocktails
Pumpkin White Russian // The Suffolk Punch
Pumpkin Spice Margarita (tequila blanco, cream, pumpkin spice syrup, vanilla extract, simple syrup) // 204 North
Drunkin Pumpkin (Bailey’s, spiced rum, cream, pumpkin) // 5Church
A Pumpkin With No Name (Dewar’s, lemon juice, pumpkin spice simple syrup, angostura bitters, vanilla extract, egg whites) // Sophia’s Lounge
PS(B) Old Fashioned (Bulleit Rye Whiskey, pumpkin spice, cranberry bitters, angostura bitters) //Â Sophia’s Lounge
Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice (Stoli Vanilla, homemade pumpkin butter, pumpkin simple syrup) // K Lounge
Allie Papajohn is the creator and face-behind-the-food on EatDrinkCLT’s Instagram and blog. She is constantly thinking about her next delicious meal and enjoys spreading the word about Charlotte’s culinary scene.