Turin · gelato
Nivà
A Michelin-trained restaurateur's pivot into gelato, with a specific, named ingredient list (mountain-dairy milk, kilometre-zero stone fruit) rather than a general quality claim, and the flagship location behind a family business this project has already recorded once in Lisbon.
What we know
- Diana De Benedetti built her career at Bontan, a Michelin-starred restaurant in San Mauro Torinese she ran with her husband Silvio Rivolta, before the family began making gelato in 2005, per Maestri del Gusto
- Ingredients named specifically: milk from mountain dairies, Piedmontese hazelnuts, craft-ground coffee, hand-crushed chocolate, and kilometre-zero fruit including damsons, vine peaches and bure roca pears from local growers
- Expanded from two Turin shops to further locations in Cannes, Lisbon and Porto, per the same source
- One of seven Turin addresses awarded Tre Coni in the 2024 Gambero Rosso guide
- Status
- open
- Address
- Corso Alcide De Gasperi 8, Torino (second Turin location at Piazza Vittorio Veneto, house number contradicted between sources)
- Maker
- Diana De Benedetti and her husband Silvio Rivolta, founders; family surname also given as Rivolta in the existing Lisbon record for the same business
- Opened
- 2005
- Website
- www.nivagelato.com/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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