The highest concentration of quality ice cream parlors in Italy is in Lombardy. There Guide of Italian ice cream parlors 2022 published by Gambero Rosso, who drew a reasoned map of the sanctuaries of ice cream throughout the boot, 461 in total, surprising for its results. L'assignment of the three cones the highest recognition of the guide for quality assigns the first three podiums to the North.
All Lombardy which is firmly at the top with 14 award-winning venuesfollowed by Piedmont with 9 and Emilia-Romagna which takes third place with 8. Fourth position for Lazio with 7, closely followed by Veneto with 6; Tuscany with 4. Then Liguria, with 2. And with two award-winning ice cream parlors Campania finally appears, where in 1784 Filippo Baldin published the first De' Sorbetti manual in Naples, as well as Basilicata and Sardinia. Bringing up the rear with one ice cream parlor each Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Marche, Abruzzo, Puglia and Sicily which gave birth to Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, considered the inventor of modern ice cream, which starting from Aci Trezza and Palermo, arrived as far as Paris , where he opened in 1686 a place that still exists, the Café Procope, where a large variety of ice creams were served.
The annual presentation of the Gambero Rosso Gelateria Guide also allows you to photographing trends in Italian gelato art che represents a constantly increasing phenomenon, gli Italians are in fact the first per capita consumers worldwide of homemade ice cream animating a market that is worth 4,2 billion euros and employs 74 workers.
The 2022 ice cream therefore presents itself as an ice cream that qualifies for "Sustainability" the result of ethical and transparent production processes, both in terms of raw materials and packaging. Favor the traditional but deeply indigenous, less sweet. “An ice cream created by professionals for whom science and nature are an increasingly inseparable pair. An ice cream that calls for attentive and prepared professionals, chemists and farmers at the same time, enlightened entrepreneurs capable of grasping the tastes and needs of a public more attentive than ever in terms of food, who wants to know how and where everything that ends up in a cone or cup”.
In fact, own vegetable gardens and orchards are multiplying, as are the lists of ingredients with the name and surname of the suppliers to make the most of the territory and the attention to detail is growing. Prevail as always i "reassuring" flavors starting with chocolate, almond and pistachioso and sugar-free options are increasing, lactose-free and without studied and calibrated eggsand with great attention also for those who are forced to give up. The creative and innovative part is very present but it too is at the service of nature with intriguing mixes of fruits, spices, flowers and herbs.
The Guide also awarded the following special prizes this year:
Emerging Gelato Special Award
Erika Quattrini from The Penguin Penguin
Falconara Marittima [AN]
Special award Best chocolate ice cream
Fiorpanna
Cornaredo [Milan]
Special Award Sustainability Award
Moou
Turin
Special award Best gastronomic ice cream
The ice cream tree
Monza [MB]
Special award for the promotion of local productions
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Sondrio
Finally, for the section of "Il Gelato del Pasticcere", the mini-guide which from north to south mentions on equal merit, without any ranking, the master pastry chefs who try their hand at subzero temperatures, 38 masters of the white art were reported
AWARDS THREE CONES 2022
Piedmont
Canelin – Acqui terme [AL]
Marco Serra Ice Cream Maker – Carignano [TO]
Gelati d'Antan – Turin
Mara dei Boschi – Turin
Marchetti House – Turin
Niva – Turin
Optimal! Good is not enough – Turin
La Tosca – Turin
Soban -Valencia [AL]
Liguria
Spinola Creamery – Chiavari [GE]
Perfume- Genoa
Lombardia
La Pasqualina – Almenno San Bartolomeo [BG]
The Sweet Dream – Busto Arsizio [VA]
Oasi American Bar – Fera Gera D'adda [BG]
Arctic – Milan
Ciacco – Milan
Cream – Milan
The Gnome Ice Cream – Milan
Paganelli – Milan
Pavé – Ice cream & Granite – Milan
Terra Gelato – Milan
Chantilly – Wife [MN]
The Ice Cream Tree – Monza
Pallini – Seregno [MB]
VeroLatte – Vigevano [PV]
Veneto
Scaldaferro Natural Gelateria – Dolo [VE]
Gourmands of Nature – Gazzo [PD]
Chocolat – Mestre [VE]
Gelateria Marisa – San Giorgio delle pertiche [PD]
Dassie – True Artisan Gelato – Treviso
Zeno Ice Cream and Chocolate - Verona
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Timballo – Udine
Emilia Romagna and Lombardy
Santo Stefano Creamery – Bologna
Scirocco Creamery – Bologna
Stefano – Bologna
Bloom-Modena
Ciacco – Parma
Terminus Creamery – Reggio Emilia
Sanelli – Salsomaggiore spa [PR]
The Ice Cream Theater – Sant'Agostino [FE]
Toscana
Gelateria della Passera – Florence
Chiccheria – Grosseto
De' Knives – Pisa
Dondoli - San Gimignano [SI]
Brands
Paolo Brunelli – Senigallia [AN]
Lazio
Gretel Factory – shape [LT]
Greed Greedy for Gelato – frascati [RM]
Fatamorgana – Rome
La Gourmandise – Rome
Otaleg! - Rome
Stefano Ferrara Gelato Lab – Rome
Torcè – Rome
Abruzzo
Gelaterias Duomo – The Ice Cream Paradise – L'Aquila
Campania
Di Matteo – Torchiara [SA]
Cremeria Gabriele – Vico Equense [NA]
Puglia
G&co – Tricase [LE]
Basilicata
Emilio – Maratea [PZ]
Workshops of taste – Pignola [PZ]
Sicilia
Cappadonia Ice Cream – Palermo
Sardinia
I Fenu Gelateria e Pasticceria - Cagliari
Sweet Treats – Macomer [NU]
THE PASTRY CHEF'S ICE CREAM 2022
PIEMONT
Dalmasso – Avigliana [TO]
Avidano – Chieri [TO]
Bonfante – Chivasso [TO]
Marco Vacchieri Pastry shop Chocolate shop Ice cream shop – Rivalta Di Torino [TO]
Fabrizio Galla – San Sebastiano Da Po [TO]
Raspino – Turin
LOMBARDY
Besuschio – Abbiategrasso [MI]
Sirani - Bagnolo Mella [BS]
Veneto pastry shop – Brescia
Sartori – Grass [CO]
Ile Douce – Milan
Peck – Milan
Morlacchi – Zanica [BG]
VENETO
The Kiosk – Lonigo [VI]
Biasetto - Padua
TRENTINO ALTO ADIGE
Milan – Levico Terme [TN]
Reinhard – Moena [TN]
EMILIA ROMAGNA
Rinaldini-Rimini
TUSCANY
Luca Mannori – Prato
MARCHE
Roberto Cantolacqua Pastry Chef – Civitanova Marche [MC]
Woodpecker – Loreto [AN]
LAZIO
Walter Musco - Bompiani - Rome
Belle Hélène – Tarquinia [VT]
ABRUZZO
Caprice – Pescara
CAMPANIA
Andrea Pansa – Amalfi [SA]
Sal De Riso Amalfi Coast – Minori [SA]
Pasquale Marigliano – Nola [NA]
Seagull – Pompeii [NA]
Pepe Mastro Confectioner – Sant'Egidio Del Monte Albino [SA]
PUGLIA
Pino Ladisa – Bari
Moffa – Foggia
White Art – Parabita [LE]
BASILICATA
Tiri Bakery & Coffee – Power
SICILY
Palazzolo pastry shop – Cinisi [PA]
Champagne – Marineo [PA]
Sicilian Coffee – Noto [SR]
Hat – Palermo
Ancient Spinnato Coffee – Palermo
