Ciccone & Sons Gelateria

Don't you just love bathing in the hipster juice that floods the now of Redfern? You can choke on the stuff. There's lots of good amongst the mission brown and 1978 Pelaco poly cotton shirts. This place fits right in. Slender, retro fit out, that tries harder to be 1950s Carlton, than a faded Sophia Loren poster. The flavours are as now as a rapid antigen test. Only problem is..they're good..not great. In a town blessed with quality gelato, their bitter chocolate sorbetto is good, but isn't particularly either, compared to rivareno or mapo, cow and moon or even Messina. The maraschino cherries are decent, but swim in a sweet vanilla compote that isn't especially creamy or vanilla laden. It's not bad at all. In fact, it's good, and the portions big. It's just not in Sydney's top 5. Don't tell the hipster kiddies though. They seem so happy here.

Been going to Ciccone for years and it’s still our fav. The gelato is consistently good. They do the nut flavours really well along with a great honeycomb, buttermilk and passion fruit, strawberry, matcha, banana and chocolate. I also love their sticks! Was lucky to get my hands on a banana stick once and it was soooo good with the caramel coating. My husband and I have gotten to know Sean and Mark, they are lovely people. They work hard and are passionate about making good quality gelato.

We had gelato on Sunday night - one of the only places in Sydney open late! The guy was closing up but could not have been nicer to us, explaining flavours and waiting around to serve us - a group of 10, im pretty sure he stayed open just to serve us. I had the raspberry sorbet and my friend has tiramisu - both amazing! The icecream is great, original & they change the flavours around & the staff are great. A hidden gem of Sydney and open late.