La Gelateria de L'illa is part of the AC Diagonal mall, which my hotel was actually apart of when…read morestaying in Barcelona.
Having past here numerous times a day when going into my hotel, I decided to call in here to try it. This is run by Dino's, who have quite a poor branch I visited the day before this one on the beach.
VISIT 1:
I came in, unlike the branch near Barcelona beach there wasn't allergens labelled which was a shame, but the staff member who was working did seem friendly enough and told me what I couldn't have.
I ended up going for a special flavour with mango and cherry, it tasted nice, it tasted fresh and I really enjoyed it, It was 2.20 euro for a pot.
VISIT 2:
I came back and the service I received was really bad, the staff member spoke poor english but still tried to tell me what I could and couldn't have.
I ordered a coffee ice cream and it really wasn't very nice, it didn't taste like fresh, authentic gelato which the name would suggest.
I also tried a gluten free cone on this occasion with my pot, even the cone wasn't very nice and the second time around the quality of the ice cream tasted awful.
Because of this I'm struggling to rate this place, on one hand I did have a good experience but on the other everything went wrong in terms of poor quality food and service - There is a limited amount of high seating but the way it is set out it seems to discourage people sitting there, and this is a more of a grab and go bar.
It seemed only one flavour of the ice cream tasted good, which was the limited edition flavour which is a shame, due to declining quality of all and very poor quality flavours I feel this place deserves a single one star.