Among the 146 places in the competition to be one of the best ice cream parlors in the world, there is one in Lisbon, which took a modest but always pleasant 115th place, in a top dominated by several Italian ice cream parlors.
The competition is called “Gelato Festival World Ranking 2024”, which recently published its list of the best ice cream parlors in the world, with the highlight being the fact that these ice creams are all handmade... the best of the best, then!
Featured in our ice cream guides in Lisbon
The Lisbon ice cream parlor has already appeared in both our guide to the best ice cream parlors in Lisbon, as well as in your list of preferences, which explains why our taste is very good for this type of competition (laughs).
Any festival that throws ice cream into the mix doesn’t just excite the little ones!
We adults love to try all the new flavors that are created every day by master ice cream makers, even those “stranger” flavors that you can try in this new ice cream parlor in Lisbon, Bizzarro Gelato.
Well, that’s what the Gelato Festival is all about, a feast for young and old alike, which every year launches its list of the best artisan gelaterias around the world, the Gelato Festival World Ranking.
Top 5 of the best ice cream parlors in the world
Although Italy has the highest number of ice cream parlors in this world ranking, it wasn’t even an Italian ice cream parlor that won this year:
- Fazekas Cukraszda, by Adam Fazekas, in Budapest, Hungary
- La Parona del Gelato, by Giovanna Bonazzi, in Parona, Italy
- Savannah’s Kitchen, by Savannah G. Lee, in San Francisco, United States of America
- VeroLatte, by Massimiliano Scotti, in Vigevano, Italy
- Veneta Gelato Italiano, by Maurizio Melani, in Valencia, Spain
The ice cream parlor in Lisbon: Fragoleto
Manuela Carabina is the master ice -cream maker who put Lisbon on the artisanal ice-cream map worldwide , through the Fragoleto ice -cream shop, by winning an honorable 115th place out of 146 competitors.
Fragoleto is a small ice-cream shop in the heart of the city downtown pombalina and produces handmade vegan ice creams with 0% lactose and 0% gluten.
Let’s remember that in the list of the best ice cream parlors in Lisbon, Fragoleto achieved a spectacular 19th place in the preferences of our readers, in a top that has at its head the well-known ice cream parlor in the alvalade neighborhood.
We couldn’t agree more, because the flavors you’ll find here are truly incredible and delicious.
To eat by the spoonful or on a stick, Fragoleto’s ice creams are to be savored calmly, very calmly, while you stroll through our beloved Rua Augusta. Fragoleto is right nearby, at Rua do Comércio 15.
Fragoleto’s ice creams are certified organic, which guarantees all ice cream lovers that they will always be consuming natural products, which, says the master ice cream maker, always guarantees an authentic taste and all the nutritional qualities of the raw materials used to make her ice creams.
It should also be noted that if you want to try one of the gelatos voted the best in the world, you can only do so between February and November, which is when Fragoleto is open.