Venchi gelato grande (4 flavours: €5 each)!
Gelato in Italy at Venchi: a grande waffle cone piled with chocolate and hazelnut flavours, with the signature molten chocolate down the cone. €5 each.
Gelato at the source on the Europe trip, and we went to Venchi, the historic Italian chocolate maker: a grande cone with 4 flavours, €5 each (around SGD$15.50 for two). 🍦😋
What we had:
- Two grande waffle cones, each piled with four scoops of chocolate and hazelnut gelato
Venchi is a chocolate house first, so the gelato leans gloriously chocolatey, and the move here is their signature trick: they line the inside of the waffle cone with molten dark chocolate, so as you work down, you keep hitting cool ribbons of rich, fudgy chocolate against the crisp cone. Genius.
The scoops themselves were everything Italian gelato should be: dense, silky and intensely flavoured rather than airy, because proper gelato has less air churned in and less fat than ice cream. The chocolate flavours were deep and almost bittersweet, and the hazelnut (nocciola) was nutty and fragrant, that unmistakable Italian classic. Eaten slightly soft, just out of the case, they were luxuriously smooth.
At €5 for a generous four-flavour cone from a name like Venchi, it felt like a treat and a bargain at once. Eating gelato this good in Italy is one of those simple holiday joys.
Overall: 4.7 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Dense, chocolatey Venchi gelato with that molten-chocolate cone, a proper Italian indulgence. Would re-visit.
