São Paulo · ice cream
Biju Mani
The most decorated Brazilian-ingredient specialist in the city on competition terms — a national title in 2025 followed by Brazil's first-ever global top-10 finish in March 2026, built specifically on a Brazilian beer and Northeastern honey rather than imported reference ingredients.
What to order
Appia (wheat-and-honey beer, salted caramel, macadamia, lime) — the competition-winning flavour named in every source
What we know
- Won the Brazilian final of the Gelato Festival World Masters 2025 with the flavour 'Appia' (wheat-and-honey beer, uruçu honey, lime zest, toasted macadamia, salted caramel)
- In March 2026, at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas, became the first Brazilian gelato entry to place in the Gelato Festival World Masters global top 10 (10th place), among 34 finalists selected from over 3,500 competitors across four years
- Own site states most ingredients and recipes are developed and produced in-house, prioritising local suppliers ('a maioria dos ingredientes e receitas dos nossos sorvetes são criados internamente')
- Vegan cone made with Amazonian cumaru ('casquinha vegana de cumaru amazônico')
- Explicit founding mission to valorise Brazilian ingredients and small producers against what the brand calls the erasure of Brazilian ice-cream culture; no artificial dyes or preservatives; biodegradable packaging
- Status
- open
- Address
- Av. Dr. Martin Luther King, 2228, Cidade São Francisco, São Paulo
- Maker
- Guilherme Geraldini (chef sorveteiro, founder), from Ribeirão Preto
- Opened
- 2021
- Website
- bijumani.com.br/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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