Without gelato there would be darkness and chaos.
About us: Back in 2014 The Island Gelato Co was conceived on the beautiful isle of Waiheke and has since evolved to a store in the historic Ferry Building, Newmarket’s Westfield rooftop, and now Ponsonby Road, lucky us!
So what is Gelato you ask? Gelato is Italian for ice cream, but it’s batch churned and has less air, sugar and fat than regular ice cream. This produces a more dense chewy scoop with lots of flavour. This process also enables Island Gelato to create sorbets (which are dairy free) with bases such as coconut milk, oat milk and fresh farm fruits.
With 24 flavours in the cabinets at anytime, creativity is a big part of Island Gelato’s philosophy, sourcing fresh seasonal fruit to be turned into swirls and jams or fresh sorbet is a beautiful part of the process.
All the cream based gelati are made with fresh organic jersey milk from Jersey Girl Organics and their genius patisserie chefs produce caramels, brittles, and chewy bits to adorn the silky pillows of fresh creamy gelato.
Some of I.G.C’s signature gelato flavours include salted Sicilian pistachio, Pics peanut butter choc and caramel, mango lassi, plum and meringue pavlova, Banoffee pie, coffee affogato, choc whiskey and truffle, buttermilk and dulce de leche.
AND the sorbets, tamarillo, salted coconut passionfruit, basil and lime, peached ice tea - plus many more.
To step it up a notch, try a combo of any flavour (we suggest a cream and sorbet combo) and if you’d like next level add a shot from their flowing choc tap (80% couverture chocolate). Come on get in there!
We pride ourselves with our select vegan cabinet (12-16 rotating flavours) and our new range of bespoke delicious gelato cakes, made for any special occasion and soon to be available to walk in and purchase.
OPENING SPECIAL:
With this article we welcome you to an ADDITIONAL free scoop with any scoop purchased.{NOTE please cut out this article and present as a coupon}. See you soon. valid to 31/04/22
ISLAND GELATO CO, 124 Ponsonby Road, Three doors down from Orphans Kitchen, www.islandgelato.co.nz
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Published 4 March 2022