Customer Spotlight: Eis Cafe
Serving spectacular confectionary creations with an eco-focus! When Merlin Ward was growing up in Germany, he often enjoyed visiting ice cream parlors. As a young man, he remembered the giant, ornate creations that looked far too beautiful to consume. Fast forward to Spring of 2021 and Eis Café is born. During the global pandemic of Covid, […]
Science Explains Why Gelato Makes You Happy
Cold, sweet, and churned into colorful flavors, all gelato-lovers know the dizzying delights of this frozen sweet treat. But now neuroscientists at the Institute of Psychiatry in London have discovered eating just one spoonful of ice cream (a similar frozen sweet treat) has an immediate effect on the orbitofrontal cortex — the part of the brain known to […]
VILLA DOLCE GELATO AT THE INTERNATIONAL PIZZA EXPO & NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION SHOW!
From March 4-7th, Villa Dolce will be featured at the world’s largest pizza industry show – the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas! Attendees will include nearly 500 exhibiting companies, such as pizzeria or pizza-concept restaurant owners, operators and managers, as well as distributors and food brokers. Come and see what’s new in the industry and […]
Villa Dolce Gelato Named to Inc. 5000
We are truly honored to announce that Villa Dolce Gelato was named to the 2017 Inc. 5000, an annual ranking of America’s fastest-growing companies. Inclusion in the Inc. Magazine’s ranking is determined by revenue growth over the past three years, during which Villa Dolce grew over 100 percent. At this time of growth and recognition, […]
Villa Dolce Gelato featured at the International Pizza Expo
What is your favorite comfort food? According to a 2016 Harris poll, whether it’s deep dish, hand tossed or thin crust, you are most likely to reach for a slice of pizza. In fact, the U.S. pizza market tops $40 billion, which translates into an average of 23 pounds of pizza consumed per person each […]
First Time Food Show Fun
Imagine the impact of more than 2,670 exhibitors, 47,000 specialty food and beverage professionals and an exhibit hall spanning the equivalent of six football fields. That was the scene during Villa Dolce’s first appearance at the 2016 Summer Fancy Food Show held late June in New York’s Javits Center. With Italy as the largest […]
Villa Dolce Gelato will be at the Fancy Food Show!
Cocktails, candy, chocolates and cheese….you’ll find all this and much, much more next week at the Fancy Food Show, North America’s largest specialty food and beverage show. From June 26th – 28th, Villa Dolce Gelato will be among the 46,000+ industry professionals attending the Fancy Food Show held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York […]
12 Food and Drink Trends – Part 1
At Villa dolce, we’ve been following the trends in the food and drink category for the last 15+ years. We’ve watched the rise (and sometimes fall) of trends like food trucks, cupcakes, bacon, craft cocktails, and cronuts. So we were very intrigued when Mintel, the world’s leading market intelligence agency, published their predictions for 2016. Mintel’s analyst […]
