Clementine's Creamery

Clementine’s Creamery in Prairie Village is the Kansas City-area outpost of Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery, a St. Louis-based artisan microcreamery founded in 2014 by Tamara Keefe — its first scoop shop outside the St. Louis market, not a locally KC-founded business.

Description

Clementine’s Creamery at 6966 Mission Rd is the Kansas City-area location of Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery, a St. Louis-based artisan ice cream company. The shop sits in the Shops of Prairie Village and occupies the former CHILL ice cream parlor space. It is the brand’s first scoop shop outside the St. Louis metro.

Clementine’s produces super-premium, small-batch ice cream in three signature lines: “Naughty” (alcohol-infused flavors), “Nice” (made with grass-grazed local dairy), and “Non-Dairy” (plant-based). The company markets itself as Missouri’s first microcreamery, with a product standard of more than 16% butterfat, low overrun, and no fillers, additives, or stabilizers. The Prairie Village menu includes the brand’s signature Gooey Butter Cake flavor — a St. Louis hallmark — alongside flavors such as maple bourbon pecan and coconut fudge.

Ownership and history

Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery was founded by Tamara Keefe, who launched the company in 2014 and opened its first shop in St. Louis’s Lafayette Square neighborhood in May 2015 after leaving a corporate career. By the time of the Kansas City expansion, the company operated roughly seven locations in the St. Louis area. The Prairie Village shop, which opened in 2025, is explicitly the company’s first scoop shop outside St. Louis — an expansion of an established out-of-market brand into the Kansas City metro, not an independently KC-founded creamery.

Tier classification

Tier 2 — out-of-market brand expanding into KC (not locally founded). This designation reflects deliberate tier honesty. Clementine’s is a St. Louis company founded by a St. Louis-based owner; the Prairie Village shop is its first location outside St. Louis. It is therefore NOT a born-and-bred Kansas City business and does NOT qualify for Tier 1, which measures deep KC roots and KC-grounded ownership. It is placed in Tier 2 rather than Tier 3 because it is still a Missouri-based, founder-owned independent artisan operation (not a national or absentee chain) physically investing in and operating within the KC metro — but the page must clearly disclose that its roots and ownership are in St. Louis.

Sources

1. Kansas City Magazine, “Clementine’s Ice Cream Opens In Prairie Village Today” — https://kansascitymag.com/clementines-ice-cream-opens-in-prairie-village-today/ — accessed 2026-05-30
2. QSR Magazine, “Clementine’s Ice Cream Expands into Kansas City” — https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/clementines-ice-cream-expands-into-kansas-city/ — accessed 2026-05-30
3. Clementine’s Ice Cream official site — Prairie Village page — https://www.clementinescreamery.com/pages/prairie-village — accessed 2026-05-30
4. St. Louis Magazine / Feast Magazine — founder profiles of Tamara Keefe (founding history) — https://www.stlmag.com/dining/hot-seat:/ — accessed 2026-05-30
5. The Pitch KC, “Clementine’s Ice Cream brings its ‘10-minute vacation’ to Prairie Village” — https://www.thepitchkc.com/clementines-ice-cream-brings-its-10-minute-vacation-to-prairie-village/ — accessed 2026-05-30

Verification

Drafted 2026-05-30 from web research; 5 independent sources (KC Magazine, QSR Magazine, official site, St. Louis Magazine founder coverage, The Pitch KC). KEY FINDING re: local-vs-chain: CONFIRMED as a St. Louis-based brand. Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery was founded in 2014 by Tamara Keefe and opened in St. Louis (Lafayette Square) in 2015; the Prairie Village shop (2025) is its first location outside St. Louis, opened in the former CHILL space. It is therefore NOT fully local to KC — tiered as Tier 2 with explicit St. Louis-brand disclosure (candidate flag honored). Unverified: location phone number and whether the PV store is company-operated vs. a local franchise/partner.