Mmmmm xmas.  Hol­i­days.  Sum­mer sun (we live in hope).  And gelato.

Gra­ham Joe at Gelis­simo has it all sor­ted.

Small batch, hand craf­ted gela­tos using Zany Zeus organ­ic milk and real sea­son­al ingredi­ents.  Watch out for Gelis­simo gela­tos on menus around town where Gra­ham and vari­ous chefs (Scopa for example) have col­lab­or­ated to cre­ate a fla­vour for a par­tic­u­lar dish (blue cheese gelato with pear dessert any­one?).

GelissimoAnd if you’re quick, the xmas spe­cials are avail­able in 1 litre tubs for a short time (xmas pud, boozy black forest and boozy zuppe inglese)  – see Gra­ham at his fact­ory shop beneath the Stock Exchange at Tarana­ki Wharf.

Oth­er­wise you can try many of his cre­ations at out­lets at Tommy Mil­lions on Cour­tenay Place, the booth at Frey­berg Beach, the ice cream cart at the Sunday City Mar­ket (from 26 Janu­ary after those good folks have all had a well deserved rest), or the ori­gin­al shop at East­bourne.

Espe­cially if you’re a dark chocol­ate fan (con­sist­ently voted by punters as suit­ably dark and chocol­atey), a ginger beer fan (Gra­ham relieves Rebecca of Har­die Boys of her close-to-date bottles), an espresso fan (the Gen­tle­man’s Bean espresso put to good use), a dam­son plum fan (one of this year’s ice cream award win­ners), or a speculaas/speculoos/spekulatius fan (spelt the Dutch, French and Ger­man ways to sat­is­fy all who kept point­ing out the spelling mis­takes!).

Merry xmas and enjoy the break.