Ottawa Foodies

Pretty good gelato and a wide range of choices. Great location for late night dessert. Piccolo grande is a bit better I think, especially on traditional flavours.

Last night tried the peanut butter and jam gelato... sooooo good. Brought back memories of lunchbags from grades 1-6.

Usually love Pure Gelato but I had their grapefruit gelato (Pompelmo) the other day and it was bad! Tasted very fake and bland. Now I know grapefruit gelato has what it takes to be excellent - had some at San Crispino in Rome and it was THE most delicious, refreshing gelato ever. Just goes to show the difference between natural vs. artificial flavouring I guess. Next time I'll stick to the chocolate and peanut butter gelato.

I had wanted to try Gelato for a while now and actually used to pass Pure Gelato on my way to work and always mentioned it to my hubby. So after joining this site and seeing the reviews I knew I had to go for it. I was not disappointed at all! Huge selection, friendly and helpful staff and amazing creamy delicious gelato. I had a scoop of Rocher and a scoop of Tiramisu. Yum! Next time I'm going for Blood Orange Cream and Coconut. I can't wait!

Sooo good! I always have the hardest time choosing... All the flavours are excellent so it doesn't really matter.

oh boy, if I had three thumbs - they would all point to the stars, I just love this place , the decor and the gelato are stellar !

Tiana, Alanna...

Happy to hear they DO have green tea...I'll be nabbing a pint on the next visit. Both combos sound amazing. Will be trying both on my return from vacation.

Ian.

I, too, have recently had the green tea gelato, and let me tell you, it is a little scoop of heaven. I'm craving it right now.

But my favourite trifecta is:
Orange-Toblerone, Whiskey-Chocolate and Blood Orange.

OrangeSpin: Last time I was there they had Green Tea and I used it for the trifecta of all trifectas:

I scoop each - Green tea, Coconut, Pistachio

With the heat climbing I thought I'd offer my favourite combinations at Pure:

1 scoop each: classic orange, vanilla and creamsicle
1 scoop each: French vanilla, classic vanilla and creme brule
1 scoop each: pomegranate/watermelon, lemon and raspberry

Baring the fact that their line-up/order procedure needs a total rethink and they could stand to get a little more creative with flavour (pumpkin, green tea, red bean .. heck, anything a little more 'out of the box' would be fun). Piccolo's has been outdone.

Pure Gelato is Ottawa's best frozen dessert delight.

We came here on Saturday after dinner at Black Cat on Preston. Having heard the raves about the ginger gelato, I was dying to try it, especially with the fig one (Thanks, momomoto).

Anyway, they were out of ginger, so I settled on fig and dark chocolate. The fig was a "muted" taste...or in short bland. I didn't get a single piece of fig and there was minimal flavour throughout. The chocolate was good, but I've had better.

All in all, a total disappointment.

I crave their maple crystal gelato on a regular basis. sooo refreshing. I'm drooling just thinking about it. Two thumbs up!

I had the fig one and the ginger one for the first time last night; they're both grand. The ginger has real stem ginger in it, so if you're big on gelato that's like a punch in the face, this is the one for you.

You've gone and exposed the best flavour FF! NOO! It's one of my favourites, if not my favourite flavour... though I am a sucker for Tiramisu or Marsala flavoured gelato as well...

Another incredible flavour that might often get overlooked because it has a funny name: Gianduja.

It tastes like Nutella, only classier (more hazenuts, less palm oil). The wikipedia entry says that this flavour originated in Switzerland: en.wikipedia.org

I love that they regularly add new soy based gelatos in the summer. The staff is always knowledgeable about which ones are dairy-free. Soy Chocolate is my fave.

I've been very often here since I'm living so close to Elgin Street. Nice place where you can taste fresh and light ice creams. I really like the creamy flavours (Bacio, Nocciola, Coffee, Panna Cotta etc.). Good crepes for Nutella Fans.

I like their gelato much better than Piccolo Grande. The latter always seems to have lumps and odd little extra frozen parts

I've been known to walk in and turn around and walk right back out if they're out of coconut!

Oh yah! Another vote for coconut gelato here. That, and anything with peanut butter. :-)

They have a flavour called (I think) "Coccomio" and it's mostly coconut with some chocolate chunks. Lil bit o heaven there!

I had some sort of chocolate banana crepe. Took maybe 5, 7 minutes to make on a quiet afternoon but was well worth it.
Very friendly staff. Will be coming back again!

I had no idea that crepes were served here, so when I found out from ottawafoodies that they did my friend and I decided to pay a visit! I was tired but I thank God she dragged me out of the house because those crepes were the bomb! I had the bacio dessert crepe with bacio gelato, hazelnuts and chocolate sauce and she had the banana chocolate crepe with chocolate gelato! Both were incredible and we have now decided to go back for our sunday brunches...although I may have to go back sooner than that :) (dessert crepes are around $9-$10 dollars).

They have cheaper crepes too like the sugar and lemon or rasberry crepe...and they also have crepe meal/sandwiches (e.g. cheese and ham or something along those lines).

The service was great too - they were great at making recommendations.