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Conchanata

A Tuscan family has made gelato at this address since 1948, and the third generation still makes it himself in a kitchen of about nine square metres, from recipes nobody has ever written down. It shuts from December to February. That is what seasonality looks like when a shop means it.

What to order
The Conchanata: three scoops in a shell-shaped cup, a fourth of cream, under strawberry sauce.

What we know

  • Seventy-eight years at one address, the oldest shop on Avenida da Igreja
  • Recipes were never written down and pass orally from father to son
  • Made personally by the third generation in a kitchen of about nine square metres behind the counter
  • Closes from December to early February — the seasonality is a closed shop, not a marketing line
  • The house dish, the Conchanata, was invented by the matriarch and its name displaced the shop's real trading name, Gelados Italia
Status
open
Address
Avenida da Igreja 28A, 1700-237 Lisboa
Maker
Michele Tarlattini, grandson of founder Quintilho Tarlattini, who opened with Alfo Tarlattini
Opened
1948
Last checked
2026-08-21

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