KESSHŌ Artisanal Chocolate and Gelato (Burnet Rd)
Gelato churned from 70 percent Ugandan chocolate the shop roasted itself, out of a trailer on Burnet Road.3
Why go
KESSHŌ makes bean-to-bar chocolate first and turns it into gelato second, which is the whole reason a single-origin claim means anything in a scoop: the roast is their decision, not a supplier's.3 The case runs 70 percent Ugandan dark, ube, milk tea, local strawberry and a black sesame cookie flavor they added recently.3 It trades from a food trailer at 6726 Burnet Road, five days a week, and there is a second one at the South 1st Food Court.3
Order this / avoid
- Order: the ube, which is the flavor Austin Monthly's Taylor Tobin singled out for the way its vanilla and floral notes sit against sesame.2 Then the 70 percent Ugandan dark, which is where the chocolate-making shows.3
- Avoid: Monday and Tuesday. Burnet Road is closed both days.3
What locals & experts say
- The Infatuation has written about this gelato, at the operator's other trailer. Nicolai McCrary's page, dated 13 November 2023, covers the South Austin truck at 601 W Live Oak St and describes
an ice cream truck in South Austin, close to Oltorf and South First Street, selling 'Asian-inspired' flavors of gelato, including ube, hojicha, and 'boba tea.'
He connects the two halves of the business himself:The same team also runs a chocolate operation, selling single-origin chocolate bars in a variety of flavors.
That is the brand, and the address on the page is Trailer #2, so it is not a judgment on Burnet Road. The page carries no rating, because the Infatuation does not rate dessert shops.1 - Austin Monthly picked a flavor. In Taylor Tobin's July/August 2024 frozen-treats roundup:
We recommend the ube; its vanilla-ish and floral flavor works brilliantly with cookies' nutty sesame and white chocolate made with Peruvian cacao.
She was writing about a summer 2024 ice cream sandwich built on black sesame chocolate cookies, so read the sandwich as seasonal and the ube as the part that keeps.2
Good to know
- Hours: Wednesday and Thursday noon to 8, Friday and Saturday noon to 9, Sunday noon to 5.3
- Second trailer: South 1st Food Court, 603 W Live Oak St, on slightly different hours. Do not turn up at one expecting the other.3
- Price: not published on the venue's page.
- Hygiene: no public inspection score exists for this business.4
- Coverage is brand level, and this window has none of its own. Both desks above wrote about the operator and its South Austin trailer, so what carries across to Burnet Road is the chocolate, the flavor list and the people, and nothing about this counter. Kesshō is also absent from the Infatuation's fifteen-strong Austin ice cream guide, checked on 8 August 2026.1
- The award claim on the shop's own page is still unverified. It calls its chocolates award-winning and names no body and no year, so no accolade ships here.3
Verdict
could-visit — A bean-to-bar chocolate maker running a gelato trailer on Burnet Road, which is a better setup than it sounds: because they make the bars, the roast behind a 70 percent Ugandan dark scoop is theirs rather than a bought couverture. The case leans Asian, with ube and milk tea alongside local strawberry and a black sesame cookie flavor. Order the ube, which is the flavor Austin Monthly picked out. It opens Wednesday through Sunday, noon until 8 or 9, and closes at 5 on Sundays. There is a second trailer at the South 1st Food Court if this one is shut. It sits mid-ladder because The Infatuation and Austin Monthly both wrote about that other trailer, and because a mobile vendor has no public inspection score at all.