Ice Cream at Gelateria La Romana

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Gelateria La Romana 🏆


Per Person A three flavour, 600ml tub was €12.

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Website https://www.gelateriaromana.com/
Access One step up to automatic door.

In Short
First Impressions. Stylish Interior with space to linger.
USP? Best Italian gelato in town and stunning looking cakes at interesting prices.
The offer in three words. I gelati italiani!
Service! You'll probably get chance to practise your Italiano if you want to.
Friend friendly? Vegan flavours are on offer.
Rating for dating. It's Italian ice cream done just right. What are you waiting for?
Change one thing? No.
Revisitability. Stratospherically high.

What's the story?
Expanding to various branches around town, there's nothing we can do but praise GR and we readily add the entire experience to the HR Recommended list right away.

Decor, cleanliness, design and service are all exactly as you'd hope. Even the packaging looks smart, simple and stylish. A takeaway isothermic box comes with some nifty little cones to make your own cornets (or you could pick some up in Lidl, who seem to sell them all year round).

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This is real cream-lead gelato, not egg-centred ice cream. Hardly breaking news then that's its not just immensely creamy, but is almost like a frozen liquid in consistency. The flavours are intense and demand your attention in a way supermarket tubs can only dream of. If, of course, a tub were to start dreaming. Does tupperware dream of plastic sheep?

Absolutely superlative, Pistachio is terrific and even looks like creamed fresh pistachios. Biscotto della nonna is equally creamy, cakey flavours with chocky spongy chunks adding some strawberry cheesecake style saltiness. Chocolate is solid and rich, although some might find it a tad strong. Blueberry, sambucca and lemon is a cocktail meets palette cleanser. A vision in frosty pink. All the flavours here pass a critical test - eyes shut and you'd know each one's USP almost instantly.

The branch at San Bernardo is often packed. We've seen queues out the door on weekend afternoons. Downstairs tends to reverberate to kids groups, upstairs to the background chatter of Italians - who aren't ones to mess about - or mess with - when it comes to gelato.