Posted in New Orleans
April 09, 2018
This Charming Little Bakery Has Been Serving Up Delicious Treats To New Orleans For Decades
There’s nothing better than enjoying a cup of gelato on a hot summer day. This particular ice cream parlor has been around for over a century, still churning out homemade gelato with the same recipes that made them so popular in the early 1900s. If you’ve never made a trip to Angelo Brocato’s, you’re in for a real treat.
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They’ve been serving up delicious treats for over a century.

He did an apprenticeship in one of the most prestigious ice cream parlors in Palermo. He learned everything he could from them and several of his original recipes are still used today.

He made all the ice cream by hand, making flavors that New Orleans had never seen before. These original flavors quickly made this ice cream parlor grow in popularity, and he moved to a larger location on Ursulines Street a few years later.

They maintained all the charm of the Ursulines Street stores, and it’s that nostalgic charm, combined with amazing desserts, that’s continued to keep them one of the most popular New Orleans traditions.

Their cannolis are handmade and stuffed fresh to order so you can enjoy them when they are perfectly crispy. You can get them in regular or miniature size, and they are filled half-chocolate, half-vanilla and dipped in pistachio nuts and sprinkled with powdered sugar and cinnamon, but you can also order one flavor if you prefer.

A perfect wedge of tutti fruity, lemon, and pistachio almond gelato topped with sweet almond whipped cream. Yum!

Using the finest ingredients from both here in American and imported from Italy, they make all of their gelato in store. Gelato is different than American ice cream in that gelato is made using a custard-based mixture with less milk fat, and it’s churned at a much slower speed to produce a denser product.

Their address is 214 Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70119.
Have you ever been here? What’s your favorite thing to get? Let us know in the comments below!