Fortnum & Mason, ice cream parlour
food4c_AdminThe doyenne. It even has its own web site. Here it was that the knickerbocker glory was first introduced to…
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Sadly Marine Ices in its newer incanation folded in August, the same week that another London icon I Camisa shuttered…
Read MoreGelupo, the negroni granita
Jakob Kennedy’s restaurant Boca di Lupo is better known but he runs his own rival gelato parlour to the big…
Read MoreVenchi, chocolate as Gucci
From Baton Rouge to Milan, Hong Kong to Sydney, Hampstead to Carnaby Street, Venchi is primarily a chocolatier with an…
Read MoreBadiani 1932, gelato from Florence
Idilio Badiani opened his first gelateria, patisserie and coffee shop in Florence in the 1960s although he had been making…
Read MoreAmorino, a French love affair with Italy
Amorino has 25 shops in London, they are listed here, 42 in Paris, 13 in the south of France, three…
Read MoreTaiyakiya, manga ice cream
In the bubble tea alley of Newport Court, this is hardcore manga street food meats ice cream meets waffles. Taiyakiya…
Read MoreCaliendos, gelato
The Caliendo family arrived drom Naples in the 1880s and sold gelato around the little Italy that was Clerkenwell. Michelina…
Read MoreMamasons, dirty ice cream
It is not really a little Manila but there are two standout Filipino operations on this end of Kentish Town…
Read MoreOddoni, gelato
Christian Oddoni opened in Bute Street South Kensington on 2004. The laboratory is still housed there, now offering 130+ variations…
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