Chocolat

Chocolat is the single most professionally decorated gelato maker physically inside the comune of Venezia – and it is on the mainland, in Mestre, not the historic centre. That fact is the strongest, most concrete piece of evidence in this whole research pass for the city's central open question: whether the tourist-facing historic centre still makes anything for itself, versus the more workaday mainland producing the comune's most recognised gelato.

What to order
Their 72% dark chocolate, or liquiriss bliss, both named specifically by Dissapore's April 2025 review

What we know

Awarded Tre Coni (three cones), Gambero Rosso's top gelateria rating, for five consecutive years as of the 2024/2025 guide cycle, per Il Gazzettino
Named twin founders Claudio and Marco Zanette, with a direct, on-the-record quote from Claudio Zanette in Il Gazzettino about the shop's production plans
Specific signature flavours with stated ingredient detail: 71–72% single-origin Madagascar dark chocolate, liquiriss bliss (white chocolate, liquorice, passion fruit), mascarpone with candied figs, per Dissapore
The comune of Venezia's only Tre-Coni-rated gelateria located in Mestre, versus the historic centre where no shop in this record carries that award, per Il Gazzettino's 2024 regional roundup
Independently and critically re-reviewed by Dissapore (April 2025), which questioned the award, finding the fruit sorbets 'poco caratterizzati' (under-characterised) and the chocolate 'lievemente farinoso' (slightly floury) – a genuine, disclosed counter-signal rather than a uniform endorsement

Status: open
Address: Via Gino Allegri, 27, Mestre (VE); additional locations at Corso del Popolo and Galleria Matteotti, Mestre – mainland, NOT the historic centre, though administratively inside the comune of Venezia
Maker: Claudio and Marco Zanette, twin brothers and founders
Website: gelateriachocolat.com/
Last checked: 2026-08-21

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