From today we have a new excuse to eat more ice cream: the first restaurant opens with a menu where ice cream becomes the protagonist, and it's in Italy!
Is ice cream your favorite meal? Get ready, because your biggest dream has just come true. Opens Geppy Sferra's Gelato D’Essai to Rome, the first restaurant with a whole menu based on ice cream.
This is not the first experience for Geppy Sferra, who in 2011 had opened his first ice cream parlor in the same neighborhood, called Strawberry Fields. A great passion for the Homemade ice cream, expressed by constant research and experimentation, as well as the use of natural products.
In the new premises of Tor De ’Schiavi, recently inaugurated, it is possible not only to enjoy a cup or ice cream cone, but much more. One local, three souls: ice cream parlor, cafeteria and restaurant.
The ice cream menu
The same flavors of ice cream offered in ice cream parlors meet unexpected ingredients, thanks to games of flavors and temperatures. The gastronomic proposal comes from the union of ice cream makers Geppy Sferra, Alessio Schioppa e of the chef Marco Mezzaroma.
Geppy tells:"My desire is to seek a confluence between gastronomy and ice cream without altering the ice cream at all, but rather taking advantage of its particular qualities and putting them to use in preparations that, combining the methods and tastes of the culinary tradition, make us find out something about the ice cream we didn't know before.
In the restaurant, ice cream is paired with three gastronomic areas: The Gelato and the Garden, Ice Cream and the Sea, Il Gelato and the Fattoria. The flavors of ice cream are skillfully combined with seasonal and organic vegetables, but also with meat from animals raised in a semi-wild state and fish.
Among the menu proposals we find an inevitable protagonist of Roman cuisine, the artichoke, combined with a potato waffle with helichrysum and al licorice ice cream. Can not miss the Pizza, in this case stuffed with mortadella and bronte pistachio ice cream, but we also find exotic flavors like the chicken curry and coconut ice cream. We then move on to seafood cuisine, with dishes like the grilled sea bass and mustard sauce, truffle and honey with cocoa sorbet or it mackerel with sesame and baby spinach with coffee ice cream.
The menu is also completed with a limited selection of wines, to make the most of the particular offer of the restaurant.