City Gelato makes the best gelato in the Baton Rouge area! We retail with mobile carts. We also package and wholesale to grocery stores
City Gelato was founded with the sole idea of popularizing of fresh artisanal gelato through Baton Rouge and New Orleans metro areas. Gelato's balanced nutritional value (two and a half to three times less fat than ice-cream!), lack of preservatives, artificial colorants, flavors and fillers makes it a healthier and in many times yummier alternative to ice-cream. By firmly stepping on the roman traditions and further adjusting some recipes on our own we strive to bring the taste closest to what you would find in Italy. City Gelato uses fresh local fruit when in season, pure cane sugar and works to integrate the whole process with Louisiana suppliers. We are really thankful to the farmers at Red Stick Farmer's Market for providing us with fresh ingredients for our recipes! We have recently got mobile (SUV and a trailer) and now we can transport our carts to any function, event, gathering or festival as well. We also package one pint containers for the local grocery stores. Our product could be found in Calandro's, Calvin's, Maxwell's Market, Bet-R, Alexander's Market, Matherne's, Spanish Town Market, Anthony's Deli, Our Daily Bread in Baton Rouge and Dorignac's, Langenstein's, Zuppardo's, Robert's Fresh Market in New Orleans with more stores scheduled for distribution
I saw a lot of fruits because they taste better and you should too. We're at the Red Stick Farmers' Markets at Pennington Biomedical Center and you can see we have all these vendors here with all these wonderful products and I've been eating chelado. My name is Mario, I'm the owner of CityGioatto. CityGioatto is a local company that makes a Gioatto which is very close to ice cream type of ice cream product. So Mario has been part of Red Stick Farmers' Market for over nine years and he attends all of our farmers markets during the week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Gioatto is Italian, of course I didn't come to Louisiana to do Gioatto. I saw business opportunity, this is a great product, somebody gotta make it. Also in Louisiana we have great milk, we have great fruit We have blueberries, we have peaches. I started making, started feeling a little bit in between jobs with the intention of going back to chemist and I never went back to chemist. His gelato is very good and it's really fun because he uses a lot of local fruit in his flavor so you'll find a lot of seasonal things Mr. Buddy's peaches and his peach gelato so there's a really strong connection to Louisiana agriculture. CityGioatto is a certified Louisiana company. Being a part of the certified Louisiana program has been good for my business because it brings attention to local products and products made in the state using ingredients from the state and helping the local economy. It is so very important to be a member of the certified Louisiana family. When people go shopping we tell them to look for the certified Louisiana logo. Many of our products here grown in the state as fruits that I'm using are just simply better. Shop your local section of your grocery store first, your farmers market, your roadside stands. When you buy that certified product it is grown here, processed here, produced here and it's all Louisiana. I think for everybody who is using that much of Louisiana products from milk, sugar to fresh fruit it's imperative to be Louisiana certified. If you're a Louisiana producer and you want to grow your business you need to be certified Louisiana.