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Gelateria della Passera

The clearer of Florence's two Tre Coni shops on the evidence: eight consecutive years at the top of Italy's most-cited gelato guide, a territorial award tied to one named ingredient, and named growers behind a dozen-plus flavours rather than a generic 'local ingredients' claim.

What to order
Monnalisa, built from ingredients the gelateria dates to 15th-century Florence, or the Old Fashioned sorbet, built around rye whiskey and muscovado sugar for colour rather than dye (Puntarella Rossa).

What we know

  • Sole Florentine gelateria to hold Gambero Rosso's Tre Coni for eight consecutive years as of its 2024 award, and the only woman ever to hold Tre Coni status in Tuscany (Corriere del Vino, 25 Jan 2023; Puntarella Rossa, 15 Feb 2024)
  • Won Gambero Rosso's 2024 territorial-production special award for Limone Costa d'Amalfi IGP (gamberorossointernational.com, 22 Jan 2024)
  • Names individual growers behind more than a dozen ingredients: Rosano peaches from Il Pescheto, Chianti Classico from Buondonno di Castellina in Chianti, Abetone blueberries from Aziende Forestali, Amiata blueberries from Amiata Bio, black currant from Vigna Maggio, Carmignano figs from Siro Petracchi, Venturina peanuts from Marco Razzolini, Val di Chiana kiwis from Agricola Leonardo (Puntarella Rossa, 15 Feb 2024)
  • Signature Monnalisa flavour is built from ingredients the gelateria itself dates to 15th-century Florence — chestnut honey, apples, walnuts, cognac-soaked raisins, orange-blossom water — and is dedicated to Lisa Gherardini, said to have been born streets away on Via Sguazza (Dissapore, 25 Aug 2025; La Terra del Gusto, 25 Jan 2024)
  • Founder's own account: the gelateria began because a missing chimney flue blocked her original plan for a café kitchen, redirecting the project toward gelato instead, 18 years before the article's 2025 publication (Dissapore)
Status
open
Address
Via Toscanella 15/r, Firenze
Maker
Cinzia Otri, owner and maestra gelatiera
Last checked
2026-08-21

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