In Sienna, up the hill from the beautiful Duomo l've have seen a million gelato shops. Now we are…read morein the bigger cities, Venchi is a large gelato chain with a high-end, glossy, professionally polished image are quite visible. The shop look like Willie Wonka designed them and they are stunning. I am a bit leery about large batch, high production, factory gelato, but when in Sienna, oops wrong city.
Venchi is to pretty not to try once. The interior has a highly polished and fancy glossy magazine look while the gelato is piled high. I ordered the stracciatella, vanilla gelato with chocolate bar shaving that melt in your mouth. A simply memorable flavor that I've previously seen but never ordered. This is delicious, packed with flavor scoop with a slight crunch.
I know chain food places are taboo, especially in Italy, however this was another exceptional scoop of gelato. A flavor definitely one should not skip. Go in, look around and try Venchi gelato as the store design is beautiful and the gelato is equally delicious.