The 2018 Gelaterie d’Italia Guide signed by Gambero Rosso is back with its second edition. It will be presented in absolute preview at Sigep in Rimini on Monday 22 January. Only then will we know which will be the best gelateria in Italy in 2018?
After the debut in 2017, received with excellent results by users and insiders, the new Gambero Rosso guide is arriving, ready once again to bring the best ice cream shops in the realm into line.
The guide
One, two or three cones: attributed on the basis of goodness, together with a handbook on the main types of sub-zero products and on the ingredients. It will be presented in the Orion open space, together with a tasting by the award-winning master gelato makers.
Along with the presentation of the 2018 edition of the Gambero Rosso guide dedicated to ice cream, in fact, a tasting itinerary will be created and special prizes will be awarded to the best chocolate ice cream, the best gastronomic ice cream, the emerging ice cream maker and the sustainability award.
This year too, 350 ice cream parlors have been included in the publication, all visited by Gambero Rosso inspectors and evaluated according to the Ice Cream Taster’s Vademecum.
What are the most important values? The layout of the place, the tasting, the excellence of the ice cream, the quality.
Where do we start again
There are just under 37,000 Italian ice cream parlors, in 2017 there were only 36 that earned the Three Cones in the guide, created again this year with Orion, the company’s brand Clabo Spa, world leader in the sector of display windows for restaurants.
The most represented region was Emilia Romagna with 7 excellences, then Lombardy (5), Tuscany and Piedmont (4). Center of gravity shifted tended to the North in 2017, in the South only three ice cream parlors deserved the Three Cones last year (two in Campania, one in Basilicata). Bologna, queen city with 3 top ice cream shops.
Special awards in 2017 in Senigallia for the best chocolate gelato, in the Bergamo area for the Gusto&Salute award, in Carmela Grotta di Toscolano Maderno (Bs) as emerging gelato maker and in Frascati for the best gourmet ice cream.
What will have changed in 2017?
Antonello Minoia
Freelance journalist, with a huge passion for carbohydrates, for sport and for all that is writing, texts, contents and communication. As a child I wrote fairy tales, when I grew up I wanted to be a poet or a writer. They told me: “Don’t tell stories.” And instead, that’s exactly what I do: I tell stories.