gelato messina

*3.5/5

i walked into the store thinking of the amazing gelato i had in melbourne, and was sadly disappointed. maybe i expected too much from all the hype, but the gelato just wasn't that good.

i tried the apple pie and the tiramisu. i'm not a fan of tiramisu in general so i can't really make a judgement on that. however, the apple pie, while tasting very much like apple pie and containing nice chunks of pastry and apples, was sicklysweetand thoroughly mediocre.

so, not bad, but not fantastic either.

never meet your heroes.

edit: went again and tried the yoghurt and caramel, milk chocolate with choc peanut fudge and passionfruit cheesecake. really liked the yogurt one, peanut was good and passionfruit was too tangy and didn't have enough cheesecake flavour.

great ice cream, with a nice atmosphere to hang out with company. there were just so many to choose from. i ordered the pear and rhubarb and it was really yummy. however, the ice cream is a tad toosweetand i would love for it to be less sweet.

i always have this gelato whenever i'm in sydney/melbourne. finally it has arrived in brisbane! my go-to flavour is always coffee, but this time i thought i'll try something different. 'pistachio praline' caught my eye. it was very creamy, but a tad toosweetfor my liking. the cone was fresh and crispy. i thought there would be bits of pistachio, since the word 'praline' is in the name. that would make it more exciting. $4.80/scoop is reasonable. will be coming back!

tonight we were wondering around south brisbane and facing the big line in front of this place we couldn't just keep walking without checking what was the fuzz about.

after checking the available flavours we opted for the pannacota and the miso n malt.

the pannacota was just amazing, creamy, not toosweetand the fig and caramel present gave it a nice texture and flavour would rate it a 5 out of 5. the miso n malt on the other hand was extremelysweetand the bits of fudge in the ice cream have it a nice texture but also made it even sweeter, there was a nice malt flavour present and the ice cream was probably the creamiest one i have tried in brisbane but the sweetness made it be a let down. this one i would rate a 3.5 out of 5.

overall they have really good ice cream and definitely deserve the line of people that was waiting to order.

my cousin's hubby told me that there was a rather newly opened gelato place with a long queque. so out of curiosity, we drove there at night around 9 pm and i could see there were still some queque till out the shop. so while we in line there a staff giving us the menu and they definitely had different flavours from other gelato places. i picked a strawberry sorbet and gianduja chocolate meanwhile my cousin chose poached fig in marsala and her husband chose the limited edition flavour which i forgot the names.
honestly for me i did not really like it cause even it was soft in texture, the gelato itself was toosweetand also i couldn't really find the flavour that i really liked such as almond cherry or amaretti. well, if you are a fan ofsweetyou might like it better than me.

since gelato messina opened their brisbane branch, i've always wanted to give it a try and today i've finally got the chance to😝 after sample a few of the ice creams, i've decided to get pistachio praline and poached figs in marsala and as i eat the pistachio praline, i can get tastes of actual pistachio bits and poached figs is definitely a recommend as it is so refreshing. after we finished, while we were resting our tummies, they give us a cup worth of 2 scoops of nutella/ferro rocher ice cream for free and the ice cream doesn't taste sicklysweetand it is really smooth. i will definitely be back gelato messina❤

the range of flavours was exciting, though i think the specials board seemed to be erring on the side of safe rather than crazy innovative (e.g. 'milkshake') & i would have like to see some classic but unusual flavours like flior di latte, liquorice, green tea & black sesame. i chose panacotta with fig jam & amaretto & nougat. the former was my favourite, the latter a littlesweetto my tastes. the ice cream is good but not the greatest i've ever had & the cone was just an ordinary cone. service & seating fine when relatively quiet on a weekday. i will return to sample more.

the meatballs family visited gelato messina following a lovely meal at julius. despite all the hype, our expectations weren't overly high as we sampled their gelato at the pop-up shop next to goma earlier in the year and found it to be overpriced and above average at best.

we ordered three cones, including tiramisu , chocolate fondant and vanilla. $4.80 for a single scoop and $4 for the kids was a very fair price.

the chocolate fondant was a bit toosweetand i didn't love the hint of cinnamon, but mini meatball was quite happy with it. the tiramisu and vanilla were both very good. the chocolate fondant rated a 3.5 and the others a 4.

not my favorite gelato in brisbane (la macelleria is the overall best and the dark chocolate at gelato milani is perfect) but better than our first experience and we'll be back.