Post #150 goes to my all-time favorite: gelato. Prior to seeing Inglorious Basterds Friday night at the Little, we headed over to Roman Holiday Gelato for a treat. They have about 6 gelato flavors and another 6 sorbet flavors.
Now for the uneducated, gelato is denser than ice cream and usually doesn't have eggs (the French style of ice cream contains eggs). Gelato is supposed to have less butterfat than ice cream, but also less air. Conversely, frozen custard (like Abbott's) has less air than ice cream, but a higher percentage of butterfat. Sorbet is dairy-free and usually fruit flavored. Enough with the science...
I got the coconut gelato and the Boy got profiterole (which I believe actually had a profiterole inside the scoop). The coconut tasted very fresh and had a natural coconut flavor. I give Roman Holiday some enthusiastic thumbs up. And I once had one of those punch your visit cards to a gelateria in Florence, Italy and I went through the whole thing in just a few weeks. They were making different flavors daily depending on what was fresh, so it IS tooootalllly reasonable that I walked there nearly every day. No really! Anyway, thus I know "real Italian" gelato enough to know that Roman Holiday fits the bill (and has such cute decorations from the Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck movie of the same name). I wonder how often they change their flavors?
Sorry for the shaded picture but sometimes I feel a little creepy taking pictures of food inside the restaurant.
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