Barcelona · gelato
El Gelat
A Spanish champion who came to ice cream the long way round, from years in high-level pastry, and who describes the shop as a laboratory of flavours rather than a gelateria. Each flavour starts from an ingredient found by travelling Catalonia and Spain for small producers, not from a recipe. Another champion picked out his Mango Campeon — mango, rose and almond — as one of the most surprising ice creams he had tasted.
What to order
Mango Campeon, if it is on. It is the one his peers name.
What we know
- Albert Roca is Spanish Champion of Artisan Ice Cream and holds the Premio Arte Heladero
- Came to ice cream from years in high-level pastry, deliberately, to understand it from the inside
- Ingredients sourced by travelling Catalonia and the rest of Spain for small workshops and independent producers
- Starts from the product rather than a recipe: its origin, its seasonality, its potential
- Recommended by a named professional for a specific composition, Mango Campeon
- Status
- open
- Address
- Rambla de Catalunya 2-4, 08007 Barcelona
- Maker
- Albert Roca
- Website
- elgelat.com/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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