A delicious Olive Oil Tasting and Dinner at Corso Italia’s Cucinato

Ricardo's new post about the Cucinato cooking school's oil tasting and four course dinner...

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Frozen Yogurt, Fresh Strawberries and Seasonal Flavour Round Up

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Ricardo’s Coffee Culture Attends Cupping Event at Pilot’s Ossington café. 

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While supplies last, local roasters still have tasty holiday blends in stock

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My two-year gelato anniversary

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The Coffee Cantata: coffee and me, coffee and the world

Every morning, all around the world, more than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed each day. And I am one of those drinkers as I am sure if you are reading this, you are too. We can’t start the day without that cup, in whatever form. I either fire up my Saeco PicoBarista and pull a cappuccino, feeling like I am in Rome or something like that. Or I drop a scoop of beans into my Baritza…

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A report from the centre of the gelato earth: Italy!

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Hart Melvin’s Gelato Fresco: artisanship in a short cut world

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Gelato North: Classic and Unusual Italian flavours and Korean Fusion Gelato

Ricardo's Gelato visits Gelato North, one of the most unusual shops in Toronto, combining classic Italian flavours and Korean fusion offerings.

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Wildly Popular Bar-Ape Serve Can Be Very Tasty but also Confusing 

Ricardo visits Bar-Ape in the lively St. Clair West and tries the soft serve product.

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Festive Flavours for a Festive Feast

Gelato around the holidays: Ricardo's wishes you a sweet New Year.

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Avenue Road’s Your Gelato is the Real Thing: Everything Made In House!

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Ricardo's first custom order: lemon and raspberry mint

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Gemma Gelateria, a Gelato Gem in Gentrifying Ghetto

Yonge and Eglinton is so incredibly busy and becoming more crowded every day with high rises sprouting like plants in a garden; you’d think there would be numerous gelateria but there aren’t. For some years, at 2076 Yonge St., there was Punto Gelato, and now Francesco Bisignato took over the site, now calling it Gemma Gelateria. It’s a lively strip with Mariachi’s Mexican, Dave’s Hot Chicken,…

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Ricardo and old friend Kathy catch up and visit the Danforth Gelato scene

New post about Gelato on the Danforth from Ricardo's Gelato.

It had been some time since we’d caught up, but old movie screening buddy Kathy Kastner ran into K, the dotty ex no one wants to run into, and passed on that “the years had not been kind to her.”  Recently I saw a video clip of Bob Dylan and the years had not been kind to him either; it was scary. It seemed like a sign: that we should catch up have a gelato tasting at the same time, as I told her…

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Hotel Gelato: still great after all these years

Ricardo talks to Hotel Gelato's Dan Hoffman, an industry pioneer.

Back in gelato protohistory, more than 13 years ago, Toronto, despite its large Italian population, was something of a gelato desert, except in places like St. Clair West’s Corso Italia and the College Street Little Italy. Then along came Hotel Gelato in the more mainstream Eglinton West area, proving that the delicious Italian creation’s appeal could broaden to a much broader audience. An…

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Gelato Gone Bananas!

A new post about everything banana in the world of gelato.

Banana, my favourite all-time flavour, is sadly underestimated. It has real taste power. Bananas are so multitalented: soft and sweet, good in cereal and in banana cakes and muffins, ice cream, soft serve, yogurt, milk shakes, plain as a snack – and in gelato, where they are an elusive flavour. Finding the correct ripeness for gelato is difficult. Unlike blueberries, for example, or even…

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