Fontainhas · Panjim, Goa

Slow-churned gelato, folded fresh every morning.

Tiny batches, real fruit, and a whole lot of patience. We fold each flavour by hand at dawn so it lands in your cone soft, bright and impossibly smooth.

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  • Real Mapusa-market fruit
  • Dairy & sorbet daily
  • Churned in small batches
Macro close-up of colorful artisan gelato scoops swirled into bubbly rounded peaks in a shop display case
Barista scooping and serving gelato at the counter of a bright modern ice cream parlor

Our little ritual

It started with a broken freezer and a very good peach.

In 2019, Bianca Fernandes came home to Fontainhas with a second-hand batch freezer, a notebook of her nonna's Sicilian recipes, and no plan beyond "make the peaches taste like this forever." The freezer broke twice that first monsoon. The peaches did not disappoint.

Today we still churn the way she learned in Ortigia — low and slow, more milk than cream, less air, less sugar — so the flavour does the talking. Fruit comes from the Mapusa market on Friday mornings. Pistachios come from Bronte. Everything else, we make ourselves: the caramel, the roasted almond paste, the little cardamom shortbread we tuck into the cones.

28flavours in rotation
6amthe churning starts
0artificial anything

The flavour wheel

28 in rotation, one in the spotlight

We rotate the case constantly — here's what's likely in the freezer this week. Tap a swatch to read the tasting note.

★ Flavour of the week

Ruby Grapefruit & Campari

A grown-up sorbetto — bittersweet ruby grapefruit with a splash of Campari and a slick of orange zest. Bracing, blush-pink and just a little rebellious. Available by the scoop until Sunday.

Sorbet · Vegan · ₹185
  • Bronte Pistachio Cone favourite Roasted Bronte pistachios, stone-ground. Nutty, savoury, barely sweet.
  • Alphonso Mango Seasonal Ratnagiri Alphonso, cardamom, a pinch of salt. Pure sunshine.
  • Strawberry & Basil Sorbet Mahabaleshwar berries, torn basil, lime. Bright and grassy-sweet.
  • Dark Choc & Salt Cup favourite 70% single-origin, dense and glossy, flaked Goan sea salt.
  • Fior di Latte The classic Just milk, cream and sugar. The purest test of a gelateria.
  • Kokum & Rose Sorbet Tart Goan kokum lifted with rose petals. Our monsoon hero.
  • Mint & Cacao Nib Cone favourite Fresh mint steeped in milk, cracked cacao nibs for crunch.
  • Fig & Honey Slow-cooked Jammy figs, Goan wild honey, a candied walnut ribbon.
  • Passionfruit Sorbet Sharp, floral and bright. Pairs impossibly well with pistachio.
  • Ruby Grapefruit This week ★ Bittersweet grapefruit, a splash of Campari, orange zest.

Cones or cups? We're firmly a "why choose" gelateria. But the sorbets do sing in a cup.

Charming gelato shop storefront with a welcoming, softly-lit entrance and classic facade

The hands behind it

Bianca Fernandes, head gelatiera

Bianca trained for two summers at a family gelateria in Ortigia, Sicily, before bringing the craft home to Goa. She still tastes every base before it goes into the case — and will absolutely talk your ear off about the difference milk fat makes.

"Gelato should taste like the fruit it came from, not like the freezer. That's the whole job."

— Bianca & the dawn-shift team

Kind words

People come back. Then they bring people.

★★★★★
The pistachio genuinely stopped me mid-sentence. We walked here three evenings in a row and tried something new each time — the passionfruit sorbet is unreal.
Nikhil RaoVisiting from Bengaluru
★★★★★
My kids call it "the pink shop." We call it a Sunday tradition. Bianca remembers our order and always sneaks the little one an extra cardamom shortbread.
Fatima SheikhMiramar, Panjim
★★★★★
You can taste that nothing is fake here. The kokum-rose is the most Goan thing I've eaten in a cone, and I mean that as the highest compliment.
Elena D'SouzaRegular since 2020

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Find us in Fontainhas

Tucked into a butter-yellow Portuguese townhouse on Rua de Ourem, a two-minute stroll from the Panjim church square. Look for the mint-striped awning.

Address
7 Rua de Ourem, Fontainhas
Panjim, Goa 403001, India
Hours
Mon–Thu · 11:00am – 11:00pm
Fri–Sun · 11:00am – midnight
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