Amorino - Glaces Italiennes

Love. Love in my heart. In 2005 I spent six weeks in France, and this is the thing I remember best. Recently (April 2007) I went back to Paris with my sister. I brought her here the first day we arrived. We trekked to Saint Louis En Ile, and passed Berthillion, the travel book favorite. Not to be an ice cream snob, but I don't think it's that excellent. I was nervous taking my sister to Amorino after having talked it up so much, but she was not disappointed. We had just come from Rome, and this is far better gelato than anything we had there. Or in my opinion, anywhere. 4 Euros for a medium, which is completely split-able. We enjoyed Nutella and Fraise many times!

Amorino has something like 12 locations all across Paris (it has really grown!) and is always crowded with locals. My favorite Amorino is either on Rue Montorgueil or rue Saint Louis en L’Ile. Or maybe rue Vieille du Temple.

I visited the Amorino Le Marais. I was with a fellow traveler at this stop, and one who spoke a bit more French than I did. Speaking more French than I do is not a big accomplishment, but she was pretty good with her language skills.

She knew enough of me to be sure that I wanted chocolate gelato, at the very least. She ordered for me a small cup of gelato, chocolate was one of the 2 flavors and some kind of caramel flavored thing was the second. My ability to say chocolate in French is pretty good, but caramel is something I wouldn’t even know where to begin with.

We found a bench not far from Amorino to enjoy our gelato, and was it ever good. Good eats, good company, a fabulous city, and being in the midst of the trip of my lifetime was about as good as it gets.

If you're looking for a great "gelateria" in Paris, this is the place you need to go to !
Amorino was created in Paris by two italians (specialists in gelati !), and ice-creams are still made in the rules of art ! With organic ingredients (natural fruits, natural eggs, ...), their taste is incomparable : for example, raspberry ice-cream makes you feel like you're eating real raspberries in your own garden. Moreover, there's a very large choice (and some very unusual but delicious flavours !), so you can mix flavours to get incredible ice-creams ! And last, but no least, the way the ice-creams are served is just lovely : either in a pot (classical...), in a cornet "flower style" (with petals made of ice-cream, it's so beautiful you'd like to keep it for the only pleasure of the eyes ! but a minute later, everything lies in your stomach...), or into a delicious brioche (focaccina) !
So go and taste it, you won't regret it !