Until our trip to Emilia-Romagna, we had grown accustomed to thinking that Grom - opened in New…read moreYork several years ago - was an appropriate standard bearer. No more. In our two weeks traveling through northern Italy (sadly excluding Florence), we had an awful lot of gelato (and all better than Grom), but La Romana was arguably the best we came (well... more like stumbled) across. The peach granita in particular was chock full of small chunks of peach and huge fresh fruit flavor. Pistachio was probably among the very best I have ever had too.

Holy wow guys. This gelateria is LEGIT. Our group roadtripped all over the region and tried over a…read moredozen gelaterie in Florence, Bologna, and Ravenna, and the unanimous agreement from our group at the end of the trip was that La Romana in Ferrara was THE BEST. It was so good we drove back to Ferrara a second day just to have more. Every gelato flavor we had was creamy, delicious, intense, a "real" color, and legit in every way. My favourite flavors were the chocolate with cherries and chocolate cookie crumbles, and the mascarpone+coffee. Note that you can get a brioche with 3 scoops of gelato in it + two types of whipped cream, all for $3.50. Why wouldn't you?! However, the winner by far were not the gelati but the granite. A granita is like a slushy - sometimes they're made with syrup (like a coke slurpee), but the best are made with fruit. And La Romana's peach granita was basically smushed up super-ripe peaches frozen to slushie consistency. Nothing but fruit. Beyond amazing on a hot day, especially if you love peaches We kept ordering 16-oz Larges, killing them, and then ordering more immediately. Over the course of the two days my conservative estimate is that we must have consumed about 4 liters / 1 gallon of peach granita. Man, I would go back right this second if I could. *sigh* Ferrarese, you are lucky folk.

I was searching for a gelato place in Ferrara. One of the other top places in Yelp is no longer…read morethere. We were getting a bit desperate and we find Grom a bit uninspiring so we stumbled on this place and if you're a chocolate lover especially as it relates to gelato, look no further! My son loves straciatella (chocolate chip) which strangely enough they don't have so the woman took their fior di latte and then went to their dark chocolate fountain and added a bunch of chocolate. I saw one that said coco which I thought meant cocoa powder and it turns out it means coconut. I generally hate coconut but it was actually really good! My impression is that the coconut was fresh or at least high quality. Also as a flourish they put the cones underneath the dark chocolate fountain which made them taste that more delicious. Also for you chocolate lovers out there some of the flavors of chocolate gelato were single origin (e.g., Peru) and had cocoa percentages (like 70%) A fabulous place for high quality gelato!!

The gelato is from a high quality franchise and it tastes great. The staff is friendly and fast and…read morethe gelateria is placed in a beautiful square with a view.

Gelato at Grom is a highlight of most of our trips to Italy. Yes, it's a chain, and there's…read moresomething annoyingly non-local about chains, but hear me out. Grom makes really really yummy gelato. I love arriving in a totally new (to me) city to find a Grom there ready to meet my gelato needs - it's much more efficient than trying every other gelateria in town hoping to stumble across an exceptional one. That doesn't mean I ignore the other places - I love getting a recommendation from a local for the finest little mom-and-pop gelato shop in town, too. There's room in my heart (and belly) for multiple gelato suppliers. Favorite flavors include dark chocolate (cioccolato fondente), salted carmel, and pistacchio. The fruit sorbets are delicious, too.