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Dolcezza
1418 14th Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20005
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Coffee
Main Menu
Some flavors may not be available due to seasonality.
Gelato
Valrhona Chocolate Amargo
Guittard Milk Chocolate
Tiramisu
Peppermint Stracciatella
Indonesian Vanilla Bean
Espresso Hairbender
Marscapone & Berries
Salted Caramel
Thai Coconut Milk
Lemon Ricotta Cardamom
Stracciatella
Virginia Peanut Butter
Sorbetto
Champagne Mango
Orange Honey Cardamom
Blood Orange
Avocado Honey Orange
Meyer Lemon Vodka
Honey Tangerine
Grapefruit Campari
Pineapple Honey Lime
Gelato Packages
Each package includes four pints.
Nostalgic Wintertime
$60.00
Warm, comforting and luxurious. Made for those cold wintertime months and to be eaten around a fire, after eating a nice hearty meal with your family and friends. Butter, smoke and salt dominate and make these flavors sing, and all the richer. Available year-round. Total: 4 pints: 1 pint Pistachio Siciliano gelato; 1 pint Georgia Butter Pecan gelato; 1 pint Nocciola del Piemonte gelato; 1 pint Peanut Butter Stracciatella gelato.
Summer Vacation
$60.00
Take a trip around the world and with this package, specifically Southeast Asia. We love to re-interpret classic flavors in our gelato and bring out the subtle nuances, from the hot spicy cinnamon to the sweet nutty black sesame, just as with a good espresso, it is all about the balance. Available year round. Total: 4 pints: 1 pint Black Sesame Gelato; 1 pint Thai Coconut Milk Gelato; 1 pint Cinnamon Sumatra Gelato; 1 pint Orange Honey Cardamom Sorbetto.
DC Farm Stand
$60.00
DC is surrounded by impeccable farming land and tradition. These flavors are made with the bounty from the surrounding small family farms, stretching from Pennsylvania down to Virginia. This package is all about the people who grow and raise our beautiful ingredients. Available almost year-round. Total: 4 pints: 1 pint Heirloom Apple Cider sorbetto; 1 pint Crookneck Pumpkin gelato; 1 pint Quince sorbetto; 1 pint Lemon Ricotta Cardamom gelato.
The Classics
$60.00
These straight forward classics are big in flavor and pure in approach, easily pleasing and pairing with just about anything. It is all about the ingredients, resulting in a perfectly delicious simplicity. Available year-round. Total: 4 pints: 1 pint Valrhona Dark Chocolate gelato; 1 pint Hairbender Espresso gelato; 1 pint Salted Caramel gelato; 1 pint Indonesian Vanilla gelato.
Craft Your Own
$60.00
Nobody knows your taste like you, so feel free to choose the flavors you like the best. 4 Pints of your choice.
Chef's Choice
$60.00
We'll choose the Grand Cru from the list or we may throw in a little surprise from the kitchen that's not on the list, depending on the season and what the farmers' show up with. Who doesn't like a little surprise, every now and then. Available year-round. 4 Pints of our choice.
Ingredients
Blackberries
Our Blackberries & Cream flavor is a psychedelic-purple journey. The color alone is enough to draw you in but the flavor we get from cramming so many blackberries into the recipe is unbelievable. This is one of our venerable favorites all year long. Our blackberries are grown for us by Westmoreland Berry Farm in Oak Grove, VA, along the banks of the Rappahannock River. Available June to August.
Strawberry
No fruit is anticipated as much as the Virginia strawberry. She summons the beginning of summer fruit season and is only around for a mere 5 weeks, making it even more special. We start with berries from Westmoreland Berry Farm around Mother's Day and finish the season in Pennsylvania with Toigo Orchards. We love roasting them and mixing them with fresh cream or making an exquisite sorbetto of strawberries and tarragon. Available May to June.
Blueberry
Our blueberries are grown along the Rappahannock river in Virginia. Westmoreland Berry Farm brings our order to Arlington Farmers' Market every Saturday and we go to pick our flats every week. We eat them non-stop during the 2 month long season and love to combine them with fresh yogurt or make a sorbetto with lemon-thyme. Available July to August.
Chocolate-mint
Casey and Stacey with Potomac Vegetable Farm grows this particular mint for us on their pristine farmland in Purcellville, VA. The deep earthy mint perfectly cuts through the fat of the milk and cream delivering the quintessential mint flavor that has such a long finish. This is our go-to flavor all summer long and we like to fold in dark chocolate as it falls from the batch freezer.
Milk and Cream
Our milk and cream plays a front and center role in everything we do. It lays the foundation for our gelato and is what makes our cappuccinos so over-the-top creamy. The Perry family has been tending their 170 acre farm in York, PA since the early 1900's. The have 250 cows in an enclosed herd, which means they raise all their own replacement cows. They are close to the process from beginning to end, milking and bottling the milk from their own cows, making it impossible to find anything fresher, creamier or more delicious.
Lemon-thyme
Our Lemon-thyme is grown by Potomac Vegetable Farm in Purcellville, VA. The lemon notes which come from this herb is unique and delicate, making it the perfect match for the Virginia blueberries while they are around. Available June to August.
Plums
There are probably 20 different varieties of plums available during the 2 month long season. There are also multiple names for the same plum, so, it is sometimes confusing at the markets what exact plum we are getting, we don't much care because they are all so stellar. We do know our favorite is the sunshine orange Santa Rosa Plum. Her acidity is so sweetly balanced. We like to roast them and combine them with a touch of cardamom & Perrydell cream. Available July to September.
Apricot
Apricots were one of the first fruits our daughter Pema ate when she was little. No other fruit can compare to the long lasting, smooth but sharp acidity. We love this fruit while its around, which isn't for too long. We pick them up from Toigo Orchards every Wednesday & Sunday at the local farmers' markets. Available in July.
Corn
Our corn is the sweetest corn around. Mark swears by his Mirai sweet corn variety and I'll never forget the day he turned us on; it was at the Dupont market and he shucked it fresh and told us to bite into it. I had never eaten raw corn until that day and it was a total revelation. We make a super creamy and sweet corn gelato and combine it with Westmoreland berries. Available in August.
Berries
Our berries are grown impeccably by the fine folks at Westmoreland Berry Farm. They are grown along the Rappahannock River in Oak, VA. We get our strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries from them.
White Peach
Mark Toigo grows our white peaches in Shippensburg, PA. We like to eat them alone at the beginning of the season because of the higher acidity and then later we combine them with Prosecco for the perfect bellini. Available July to September.
Yellow Peach
Being born in Georgia should say enough about how we feel of this famed fruit. There is nothing like biting into a super ripe peach, skin & all. We spin it on its own or combine it with a couple of different spirits depending on the mood, maybe Southern Comfort or a splash of Bourbon can never do you wrong. We pick them up from Toigo Orchards every week. Available July to September.
White Nectarine
The perfumed flavor of the White Nectarine cannot be matched in the fruit world. The crisp sweet fruits are some of our favorites all year long. Sometimes we like to splash on a bit of Sake to compliment their beautiful flavor. We pick them up from either Toigo Orchards or Quaker Valley Orchards, whoever has them at the moment. Their season can be as short as 1 week so we cherish them while they are around. Available in August.
Yellow Nectarine
Whenever we want a bit more acidity than what the peach provides we go for the Yellow Nectarine. We like spinning it straight up and it holds up well. Toigo Orchards grows these for us. Available July to September.
Vanilla Beans
Our vanilla beans come from the folks at Singing Dog Vanilla in Eugene, OR. They work with their growers in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia to find the very best organic vanilla, paying the farmers a fair price and sharing a percentage of profits when the final products sell. We have tried most of the vanilla beans available in the market and all pale alongside these plump and juicy vanilla beans.
Coffee
Coffee is an essence that we pay very close attention to. It is the ritual we begin everyday with and it is by far our most important meal of the day, as it sets the tone for the rest of it. We work hand in hand with Stumptown Coffee Roasters featuring a full rotating roster of their immaculately sourced and roasted coffee beans. Is there anything better than an espresso to accompany your gelato, we don't think so.
Espresso
We pull shots of Hair Bender espresso roasted by Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Brooklyn, NY. It provides the backbone for all our milk based espresso drinks. Hair Bender is their venerable espresso blend with coffees from every major growing region. It is complex, sweet and savory which yields flavors of milk chocolate, caramel, jasmine, meyer lemon, apricot and pineapple.
Brewed Coffee
We offer at least 4 single origin coffees and 1 decaf coffee, receiving fresh roasted beans every Wednesday and featuring 2 different brewing methods. For those on the go we serve a coffee of the day brewed on a Fetco brewer, and for those with a little more time, we offer 4 single origin coffees using a Chemex coffee brewer, delivering a more nuanced, full body coffee.
Barista
The most important part to a good cup of coffee is the craftsmanship, and the barista is the one who coaxes out the balanced sweetness and acidity from the coffee bean. The first shot of espresso in the morning is a ritual for all of us, as we constantly search for that perfectly balanced shot, which changes throughout the day. The elusiveness of good coffee is what draws us in and it is what keeps us in tune.