Rome · gelato
Fatamorgana
The strongest transparency case in Rome: a self-taught, coeliac founder who let a journalist into her laboratory with a camera rather than asserting anything about it.
What we know
- Production is centralised at a laboratory in Palombara Sabina and distributed daily to the Rome shops, which is why on_site_production is recorded false rather than blank (RomaToday, 2021)
- A journalist admitted to that laboratory reports seeing no thickeners, emulsifiers, colourings, preservatives or semi-finished bases in use — witnessed rather than claimed (RomaToday, 2021)
- Founder Maria Agnese Spagnuolo gives her own coeliac diagnosis as the reason she controls every ingredient (RomaToday, 2021)
- More than three hundred recipes in rotation (RomaToday, 2021)
- Holds Tre Coni, Gambero Rosso's top rating, in the Gelaterie d'Italia 2024 guide — one of five in the comune of Roma
- Eight branches on its own stores page: six inside the comune, Caffè Doney on Via Vittorio Veneto marked temporarily closed, and Monterotondo outside it. The page names no original, which is the record's open question rather than an omission from it
- Status
- open
- Address
- Via di Lago di Lesina 9/11, 00199 Roma
- Also at
- Via dei Chiavari 37, 00186 Roma (Centro Storico)
- Piazza degli Zingari 5, 00184 Roma (Monti)
- Via Roma Libera 11, 00153 Roma (Trastevere)
- Via Aosta 3, 00182 Roma (Re di Roma)
- Via della Croce 46, 00187 Roma
- Maker
- Maria Agnese Spagnuolo
- Opened
- 2003
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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