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RivaReno Gelato bound for Barangaroo

Scott Bolles
Scott Bolles

Ice-cream dream: RivaReno Gelato will open at Barangaroo in April next year.
Ice-cream dream: RivaReno Gelato will open at Barangaroo in April next year.Supplied

A Sydney gelato fanatic who uses imported milk from Italy in his creations is the latest to sign at Barangaroo. With Gelato Messina jettisoning plans to go into the waterside development, there's been plenty of speculation about its replacement. Kieran Tosolini​ confirmed RivaReno Gelato, which has just one Australian store, in Darlinghurst, will open at Barangaroo next April.

Even in gelato-crazed Sydney, Tosolini is a little obsessed. He makes small batches daily, and rails against fruit sorbets with ice crystals and competitors who scrimp. "They might use high-quality ingredients like good pistachios, but they use less and less of them until you lose the taste," he says. "We're going into a site next to the Matt Moran building [at Barangaroo]. As well as gelato, we'll do gelato cakes and alcoholic granitas."

Tosolini says he'll take the opportunity to also redesign the original two-and-a-half-year-old Surry Hills store at the same time, but isn't setting out to build a big chain: "We aren't on a mission to dominate and flood the market."

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Scott BollesScott Bolles writes the weekly Short Black column in Good Food.

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