Lygon Street in Melbourne, also known as Little Italy, is littered with quite a number of gelati shops. Between Queensberry and Grattan, there are some five such outlets. However, there is only one award winning gelati shop out of the five: Il Dolce Freddo.
Yummy gelati, with wide variety of flavors
It is also the only gelati shop Mellissa (and everyone else that I know of) swears by in Melbourne. We made it a point that I must try out this place during my trip, so went there I did, with Mellissa and Zehan (hello single and available guys out there please go and buaya her ok)
check out the their famous durian flavored gelato!
Freddo offers quite a variety of gelati flavors, but the one absolute must-try flavor would be Durian. Yes, good ol’ spiky stinky durian flavored gelato. There are other interesting flavors such as Pandan, various types of berries, rocher (with Ferraro Rocher), mango, lychee, passion fruit, and the more conventional chocolate, green tea, and coconut. Over 20 flavors in all.
KY, Mell, and Zehan
I ordered a cup with a scoop of Durian and Pandan flavored gelato for $4.80 (prices range from $4.80 to $7.80). It was lovely, the durian gelato actually made a very fair representation of the fruit, sticky, flavorful, and taste exactly like what you’d expect from the king of fruit. The pandan gelato too was quite lovely, sweet and fragrant.
The weather was quite lovely that day, if not just a little too cold. Then again, the temperature did keep our gelati in good shape and not turn into puddle of colored sweetened milky syrup so it was all good.
Can’t wait till I go there again this winter. 
Address:
Il Dolce Feddo
116 Lygon St,
Carlton, VIC 3053,
Australia
GPS: -37.80424, 144.966488
Tel: 03-9639 3344
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By Mellissa on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Why your face so anti-stim compared to Zehan and I!
By julian on May 12, 2009 | Reply
impressive map :p
By KY on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Mellissa,
Cos I had to split my concentration between eating my gelato, camwhoring, and giving instructions to the cameralady hehehe
julian,
Believe it or not, this map was drawn by Mellissa
By ShaolinTiger on May 12, 2009 | Reply
KY looks like he just got kancho’ed.
By akirasabine on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Wow, you’re holidaying in Melbourne now? Enjoy!
By JD on May 12, 2009 | Reply
aussies can tahan the smell of durian?
By DiN on May 12, 2009 | Reply
I missed that place! and that durian flavoured gelato too!!!
By KY on May 12, 2009 | Reply
ShaolinTiger,
Hahaha wtf!
akirasabine,
Hahah no no, this was a few weeks ago.
JD,
Apparently there are enough Malaysian students.
DiN,
Very awesome right?
By tAkEmOtO on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Took you long enough to post this. Been waiting for ages. It was good wasn’t it?
I remember that girl that was scooping the Gelati!! My friend was dared to get her number and somehow he got cold feet and ran off before getting it. =.=
By mnhl on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Wow…Gelati…i missed it so much and I missed Melbourne city so much. Nice city…..Did you try the Vietnam noodle @ Mekong (opp. Nike shop at Burke / Swanston st)?
By Huai Bin on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Lygon Street. I have fond memories.
I like the…durian behind the counter.
By KY on May 12, 2009 | Reply
tAkEmOtO,
Hahaha, so tragic la your friend. lol
mnhl,
Yesss, I wrote about Mekong too. Loved it.
Huai Bin,
Hehehe behind the counter heh?
By eiling on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Ooh sounds cool Il Divo + Dolce Gabanna = Il Dolce Freddo! Lol… Durian.. interesting
By vialentino on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Durian …. they shud have cempedak gelato too…imagine both of this smells combine and see wat it mat salleh reaction …hehehe
By KY on May 12, 2009 | Reply
eiling,
Hahah very high class kan?
vialentino,
Actually I think they might have!
By Precious Pea on May 12, 2009 | Reply
So Malaysian flavour you tried. OK…will jot this place down.
By Jeremy on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Haha Takemoto! Wilson still owes him a week of lunch if he manages to pull it off… Well me + takemoto went to melb for 5-6 days. Went there everynight! Easily the best gelati in this side of the world! Period!
By KY on May 12, 2009 | Reply
Precious Pea,
Yess, very nice.
Jeremy,
Hahah every night? that’s hardcore!
By Yiling on May 12, 2009 | Reply
never confirm if its D24 they’re using? :p
By pinky on May 12, 2009 | Reply
my ultimate favourite for weekend.. hahaha a good stress reliever and i am trying to try all the flavour ahahhaa
By Myhorng on May 13, 2009 | Reply
durian flavour in Melbourne? hmm..
btw, why zehan and mel’s face look like that 1, like totally different from yours. LOL
By KY on May 13, 2009 | Reply
Yiling,
Hahahah who knows, as long as it tastes awesome.
pinky,
Wooo hardcore!
Myhorng,
Hahaha cos I kancheong
By taufulou on May 13, 2009 | Reply
miss the gelato alot~ ccant compare it here.
the durian is the best!
By vialentino on May 13, 2009 | Reply
aiyoh…in my new office area here…got no nice food around like when working at klcc that time…there is one gelato ice cream stall at klcc….wonder if it is still there a not.
By KY on May 13, 2009 | Reply
taufulou,
Yaaa, I know, same too!
vialentino,
Hahaha so tragic, resign!
By yapthomas on May 13, 2009 | Reply
Oooo yummy…
By Irene on May 13, 2009 | Reply
I been there before too…the gelati was great…but the queue was bit long.. but Lygon St is best place for Italian food
By KY on May 13, 2009 | Reply
yapthomas,
Yesss!
Irene,
Yah very true.
By Robb on May 14, 2009 | Reply
fuck!! i want it!
By KY on May 19, 2009 | Reply
Robb,
Hahhahaa too bad can’t even tapao
By ~lely~ on May 31, 2009 | Reply
hi!hi! I’ve been there recently too! the gelati are absolutely fabulous! I’d be sharing some of my eat-ventures soon too!
By KY on Jun 1, 2009 | Reply
lely,
I’m missing them already!