Top 3 Best Gelato Shops in London

1. Venchi

Venchi, the legendary ‘chocogelateria’ from Turin, brings authentic Italian ice-cream (gelato) and all manner of chocolate-flavoured delights to Covent Garden's Market Building. Since 1878 Venchi’s confectionery faithfully respects the Italian tradition by selecting the most genuine and natural ingredients from Italy such as hazelnuts, almonds and olive oil. Some recipes, such as the giandujas, are produced today as they were 140 years ago. This is also true of Venchi’s typical Italian gelato, made fresh every day, with fresh organic milk, no additives and preservatives and no mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, only their great chocolate and the best fruit. The Covent Garden store stocks gourmet gifts and indulgent goodies like Venchi’s ‘legendary chocaviar’ (tiny nuggets of cocoa) and ‘cigars’  of cocoa paste and ground meringue. There are piles of Venchi pralines, ingots of gianduja and jars of impossible-to-resist chocolate spread, produced  in-store using an exclusive recipe. Venchi also makes all its gelato on-site and produces over 50 flavours. As with all its products, only natural ingredients are used.
 

2. Morelli's Gelato

Selling water along the London Marathon route; setting up a hot dog stall in Hyde Park; running an ice-cream takeaway on Covent Garden Piazza.  There can be few easier ways to make money in London, yet Morelli’s is no slouch, producing high-quality, smooth and crystal-free gelato for the queues of tourists. There are a few sought-after tables outside on the terrace, usually occupied by footsore visitors. The bright flavours might resuscitate them: Alfonso mango, Italian hazelnut, or a flavour of the month, such as banana, honey and cream cheese (a combo that was better than it sounds). Besides the original century-old branch in Broadstairs, Kent, there are international outposts including one in Gabon, West Africa.

3. Scoop

Voluptuous folds of colourful gelato undulate across Scoop’s freezer cabinet like rows of love handles. If you can settle on just one, you’re possibly not human. Scoop has been wowing Londoners with first-rate gelato since its first slip of a shop opened in Covent Garden. Expansion has been slow and modest; now there’s also an appealing Soho parlour (with more tables) and another in South Ken.
Flavours are classic Italian (biscotto, fiordilatte, malaga, pistachio), but made from brag-worthy ingredients including Tonda Gentile hazelnuts from Piedmont, Sicilian black cherries and a changing range of single-origin chocolates and coffees. It’s always hard to resist the cioccolato extra fondente sorbet, which is super-dark rather than bitter in taste and far smoother than a chocolate bar. Sugar seekers should try the coconut gelato. We like the choice of cones and friendly service too.