Salt & Straw ice cream’s “Halloween” Series is available through the month of October.

The series features the return of five flavors from co-founder and head ice cream innovator Tyler Malek, including flavors with long-standing partner Monica Martinez, founder of Don Bugito, and Paola Briseño-González, food writer and leader of Los Angeles’ Dia de los Muertos festival, the largest in the United States. 

The series is also a nod to founders’ Kim and Tyler Malek’s grandmother, who hosted an annual Halloween party where she transformed her basement into a haunted house for kids in the neighborhood to enjoy. 

Additionally, Salt & Straw is offering free scoops for kids under age 16 in costumes and free Pup  Cups to furry friends in costume on Halloween as well as Chocolate Covered Crickets for purchase. It also will continue to offer its seasonal Pumpkin Spiced Waffle Cone, in collaboration with Diaspora Co.

Flavors include: 

• The Great Candycopia — Housemade candy—inspired by Kit Kats, Reeses, Snickers, and Heath bars—folded into salted butterscotch ice cream. 

• Jack o’ Lantern Pumpkin Bread — Pumpkin-spiced ice cream with pieces of pumpkin bread, whipped cream cheese frosting and pinches of warming spices.

• Don Bugito's Creepy Crawly Critters — Matcha ice cream with toffee-brittle mealworms and crunchy chocolate cricketsfrom Don Bugito, a company aiming to change how the world sees insects.

• Essence of Ghost — Last served in 2018, Bone-white scotch-spiked sorbet wisped with a black licorice sorbet.

• Blackberry & Masa Tamale Sherbet — A monster vegan mashup in tribute to Michoacán's tamal from the Purépecha region: half masa coconut cream sherbet, half juicy marionberry sherbet, made in collaboration with Paola Briseño-González.

October food trucks

October has not brought back cool temperatures to date, but food trucks are coming out of hiding from the heat. Here's some places you can find some this month:

• Gilbert Farmers Market: October means the Saturday mornings market moves to an hour later, now 8 a.m.-noon, Oct. 19, 26, 222 N. Ash St., Gilbert.
• Harvest in the Heritage District: The monthlong celebration of fall includes a Thursday night event series with food trucks, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 17, 24, Heritage Marketplace, north of Barrio Queen.