Gelateria Giolitti

THE MOST AMAZING GELATO!!! In my opinion, this is the best gelato in Rome! A beautiful business covered in lovely marble. The staff was very personable and helpful. And the gelato… delicioso! My favorites were the green apple, nutella, oreo, and strawberry gelatos. However, there were so many different flavors that I did not have the opportunity to try them all! If I remember correctly, some of the flavors were nutella, oreo, chocolate, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, blueberry, orange, vanilla, and countless other flavors and toppings. The Gelateria is not only limited to gelato! There were other lovely pastries there as well! This is an absolute MUST when you are in Rome! I’m still dreaming about that green apple gelato…

REAL GELATO ! It is worth the journey to get here, don’t just settle for just any other place. 30 minute walk from the trevi fountain

Come here. Get the coffee and cream. Be very very happy.
The cream is thick enough to require a knife and fork. It’s practically a meal. And the creaming machine looks like it was around when the coliseum was built.
The gelato is (as everyone else has said) ridiculously good. Even the iced tea was great.
We came at noon on a Wednesday, and it was empty.

This place is a shit show during the day, especially when warm. Tourists and locals are unruly when it comes to queues. Show up at 11pm, instant gelato. Pistachio and Amarena are both solid. For 2.5 € it’s not much but damn tasty

glaces comme je les imaginais! payer avant de vous faire servir. jouer des coudes car beaucoup de monde. Les serveurs né sont pas tres aimables et vous servent absolument pas ce que vous vouliez (précisez bien le nom de votre parfum) mais les glaces sont excellentes

Things you need to know about Gelato (per the food tour we took): 80% is fake gelato, gelato is churned and therefore dense and does not sit in mountainy-​pillowy piles (in fact, it will barely sit above the gelato container), and it does not have artificial colors (banana flavor will not look yellow and mint will not look green).
With that said, this is THE ORIGINAL GIOLITTI and was the most amazing gelato we had. It doesn’t have 501 flavors like other places, but what they do best, they do it phenomenal. We ordered the pistachio, zambaigne (I think I’m butchering the name), limone, and cherry (con panna — with whipped cream, you are crazy if you don’t ask for it), all AMAZING
Being rated the top 3^rd gelato place in Rome to stop by, you can’t miss it!

Jill B. nailed it – this place is the real deal. Delicious gelato in traditional and unusual flavors, served by the makers, at a great price, and great people watching — like lots of adorable children.
If you’re a tourist hanging around centro storico, stop what you’re doing and walk down to Testaccio and hit this place up immediately. My husband and I never understood what the big deal was with folks’ love of gelato. We’ve even been known to call the praise for gelato «all lies»… and this place made us take it all back. Our local AirBnB host glowed when she talked about this place, and we now understand why. This gelato is incredible!

These guys are the absolute real deal. Incredible, handmade, all natural gelato, now run by the third generation of the same family. They offer whipped cream for the top of your gelato. Not something I would normally say yes to, but this is not your ordinary whipped cream topping. It’s also handmade fresh each day, by an original old school whipping machine (check it out if you are in the Testaccio store). In other words, if they ask you if you want cream, the answer is SI, SI, SI (or YES, YES, YES).
I had pistachio and their crema flavours. The husband had banana and strawberry. Oh. My. Goodness. Heavenly.
Also, we were taught what to look for when searching for «real» gelato:
1) Check out the banana, pistachio and mint flavours — if there is bright yellow or fluro green in sight, get out now. Banana should be a creamy white, pistachio an earthy green and mint is often only white, not green, as they use an oil extract from the mint plant. If it is green at all, it should be earthy too, not radioactive looking.
2) If the gelato is piled into enormous mountains with chopped fruit, nuts or chocolate on top to entice you to buy, get out too. This is a sign of fillers, preservatives and unnecessary AIR (which tastes like nothing may I remind you all) used to keep that gelato sky high like Everest. It really should be sitting only to the rim of its container and no higher.
3) Look out for signs that say all natural ingredients, handmade, and in Rome, there is a special «certification» they can get if they are multi generational, and have high quality products — the name of which escapes me now, but look on the walls of the gelateria to see if they have any such council awards!
Either way, just head to Giolitti, you will not be disappointed. I can still taste the pistachio now if I close my eyes…