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What people have written about us.
We are grateful to every writer who has climbed Vallejo Street to visit. Most of them have mentioned the hill.
Bay Table · October 2026
“Brownies & Ice Cream does exactly what it says, which turns out to be a rare and slightly alarming quality in a candle.”
The Hearth Review · Spring 2026
“Hale & Wick may be the only company in San Francisco whose growth strategy is the speed at which wax cools.”
Northside Weekly · December 2025
“Ask about the unscented candle. Then watch June Hale’s face.”
Goods & Gather · September 2025
“A 212-foot table, 141 votives, and not one guttered flame. We counted, and so, we later learned, did they.”
Pacific Interiors · Summer 2024
“The candle we saw on more coffee tables this year than any other, usually beside a book nobody had finished.”
Northern California Makers Fair · 2023
“Best Candle: Mission Fig. Hale & Wick, San Francisco.”
Press releases
Fact sheet
- Founded
- 2014, San Francisco
- Founders
- June Hale and Martin Wick
- Location
- 628 Vallejo Street, Russian Hill
- Staff
- Seven, and a shop dog named Pepper
- Batch size
- Forty glasses
- Stockists
- Eighteen, in six regions
Media enquiries
Talk to Martin.
For interviews, product samples, photography, or a visit to the pour room, call the shop at (415) 555-0148 and ask for Martin Wick. He handles press, and he will have prepared notes. Samples of Brownies & Ice Cream are sent with a card reminding the recipient that it is a candle.