WHY GELATO ?

UNITY

No one really thinks of ice-cream as being universally uniting. But it is.

Everyone likes gelato. It’s not just Italian. It’s not just about an Aussie summer.

It makes everyone happy. Everyone trades licks.

You can build a community with it.

We do.

SIMPLICITY

Our motto is the same as Da Vinci’s : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We’re not trying to give anyone illusions of some kind of cute, perfect, end-product ice-cream. That’s a lie. Because the process of making it is a dirty mess. We’re artisans, working with what's available, to the best of our ability. We make it, the way our mentor, Gian Michele Pasa in Biadene, Veneto, passed on to us. This is how gelato used to be made, before it became a big industry.

We love that Earth gives us such powerful flavours. And we get to honour what’s there. What’s real. There’s so much fiction in the world. And these are absolutes. So we don’t do cookies-and-cream, because that’s just a mishmash thrown together. And we don’t do rainbow, unless you can tell me what a rainbow tastes like. When you can juice a rainbow, we’ll do that. And we can’t make a mango be a strawberry. Why would we even try? Why not just taste a mango for being mango and a strawberry for being strawberry?

In the Gelati Clinic, this is what we do.

So people say our mango is amazing. Or we should enter the feijoa in a competition. But hey, it’s the mango and feijoa that get the credit. We’re just giving them a voice. We don’t need to dress up our ice-cream like Heston Blumenthal or trick people into thinking it’s something it is not. We want the ice-cream to speak for itself - or speak for us.

COMMUNITY

Our fruits are usually brought in over the counter from locals and we trade — one scoop per kilo of fruit. We’re proud to receive fruit from local people, even if it means that, sometimes, the kids steal lemons from the neighbours’ trees, because they’ll get free ice-cream. There was a German guy here once. He says stolen lemons taste sweeter.

Of course, we’re proud of the fact that we have zero km on a lot of our main ingredients.

But we’re also proud of the fact that we get our hazelnuts from Italy — effectively the other side of the world, because they’re the best hazelnuts on the planet. Yes, we’re proud we get to be here with people from all over the world, to collaborate with them and make our produce sing.

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