Rarely Ordered | Adventurous dining made safe!

Closing this month of August, this post will be the closest thing to our 2nd monthsary! Yey! Two months of daring the menu is past us and we are still at it! Wooh!

This is also our second dessert review – and this time we reviewed the known but not so familiar Italian ice cream – gelato. Quoting Ricardo Cuna, the owner of the very famous Fiorgelato brand, that “Gelato is different from ice cream as it has significantly less butterfat making it more dense – which lets you taste the flavor immediately compared to ice cream.”

For this review, we went to a very historical Italian franchise – Amici in Thomas Morato. The original is now called Amici di Don Bosco near Don Bosco school, Makati founded by Chef Giorgio and Father Francis of said school. This place is reputed to serve authentic Italian – and is very famous for its gelato. The flavors you see here are ones we carefully selected – making sure nothing is to common to our readers’ taste keeping it Rarely Ordered.

Stracciata

Fiel: This actually disappointed me as it tastes basically the same as double dutch or cookies and cream. The difference is in the chocolate used – which is notable since it is bittersweet complementing the vanilla gelato. Still very ordinary though – 6/10.

Ren: Comparable not to cookies in cream but more to the double Dutch to average ice cream goers. The chocolate is hard and has a lingering taste making the gelato notable. Notable but still ordinary, so I give it a 7.75/10

Blueberry

Fiel: After tasting it, I find that blueberry probably isn’t up to the Filipino tastebud. The whole fruits used are frozen – making it bland whenever you eat a berry. However, I commend the use of natural ingredients making this easy on the palate. For those who like your desserts really tasting like the fruits, give this a shot! 8/10.

Ren: Could have been good gelato, it had a nice texture and the use of fruits was exquisite but what didn’t click for me was that the fruits were frozen making eating it a hassle than the flavor could have given off. So I give it a 7/10.

Mango Jubilee

Fiel: It has the same fruity feel of the blueberry gelato. This time, a variety of fruits were put in a mango gelato base. Creative and you can really tell the gelato itself used mangoes with no additive unnatural flavorings. Again easy on the palate. 8/10.

Ren: Again it could have been good but the frozen fruits just didn’t work for me. The soft texture of the gelato was in great contrast to the hardness of the fruits. If maybe we went in to get an earlier batch where the fruits aren’t as frozen like ice maybe it could have turned out better. The taste of mango was in the cream the taste of the other fruits could have complemented it but it was just too hard to get a mix of it in. A 7/10.

Hazelnut

Fiel: This is just fantastic! Tasting the gelato, you can feel the very finely ground hazelnut take its powdery toll on your tongue. Imagine eating Ferrero Rocher but without the chocolate taste – and I tell you the nuttiness of hazelnut is heavenly. It got consumed quite briskly haha. 9.5/10.

Ren: Not just a nut ice cream, no whole pieces of hazelnut on this one. The flavor comes from the hazelnut itself you can taste it as it has a bit of a powdery taste to it. A nice smooth texture as can be expected, but the taste is excellent as it captured a good sense of what hazelnut taste like. A solid 9/10.

When we went: Tuesday, August 26, 2008.
Where it is: Thomas Morato Food Strip!!!
Budget Range: Its just P50 a scoop – trust us its worth it.