Kyoto · gelato
Tomomi Gelato
A maker who trained alone in Italy and came back to build gelato around Japanese agriculture rather than around Italian flavours. She visits the producers herself and names them on the product. There is almost no fixed menu — each year's recipe is retuned to that year's fruit — and when a batch is gone, that flavour is finished for the day rather than held over.
What to order
SHIBIRE, the sansho gelato that won in Italy, served with Ki No Bi gin alongside.
What we know
- Trained alone in Italy, after seven years running a gelato shop in her native Gifu
- Visits producers personally to select ingredients, and prints the producer's name on the gelato
- Workshop on the ground floor, cafe above
- Almost no standing menu: recipes are retuned each year to that year's fruit, and a flavour is finished for the day once its batch sells out
- A sansho gelato took a special prize at an Italian competition in 2022
- Status
- open
- Address
- 759 Nishihashizume-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8029, SAKIZO Kawaramachi Gojo Building 1F
- Maker
- Morikane Tomomi
- Opened
- 2022
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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