Traditional ice cream with self-service
An innovative idea born in 2012 in a small town in northeastern Italy, home of the Artisan Ice Cream, which is based on a totally new and original concept: the personalisation of the tub or cone with the ice cream of your choice.
Artisanal ice creams
Try our range of more than 80 different flavours.
Italian Coffee
Our coffees and cappuccinos have the highest standards of Italian quality.
Fruit Smoothies
Our smoothies are made with organic fresh fruits daily.
Homemade sweet and savory
Enjoy a delicious cake, a pancake or a homemade waffle.
Traditional Recipes
The ice cream is made with selected raw materials, coming from qualified suppliers and produced following exclusive recipes of the Mamma Mia brand. The ice creams are prepared by the operators themselves, carefully trained and specialised.
NO OGM, Gluten Free and preservatives
The ice cream is made by hand and with quality raw materials, thanks to a meticulous selection of ingredients, all without OGM, dyes, preservatives and gluten free
Fresh and Biological
The ingredients used in the process of making fresh ice cream using only biological and natural ingredients of the highest quality.
More than 80 flavours
A range of more than 80 different flavours among creams, fruits, chocolates and yogurts that rotate every week.
Ice creams to your choice
At the Mamma Mia Ice Cream boutiques, you can create your own ice cream. Choose the quantity, the flavours and also add your favourite toppings.
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Choose your favourite combinations
Our innovative concept of self-service allows personalisation to your choice with different possible combinations between ice creams, natural fruits, toppings and crocanti.
An Unmatched Legend
The Mamma Mia tradition has remained to this day thanks to having managed the preservation of specialised trades created from the inherited knowledge and acquired skills.
Menu
Artisanal Ice Creams
Try more than 80 different flavours.
Crepes
Sweet and salty crepes.
Waffles
Made with lots of love.
Smoothies
Natural fresh fruit drink.
Crushed ice drinks
100% artisanal with fresh fruits.
Ice Cream shakes
Shakes and Frappés to your choice.
The History of Ice Cream
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Ancient Egypt
The one that could be defined as the first tub / ice cream cone was found in Egypt in a tomb of the second dynasty (2700 BC). A kind of mold, two cups of silver, containing snow (or ice) and cooked fruit. The ``Neviere``, places to store snow and make ice are actually an old invention. ``
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Rome and Pompeii
Ice cream was already eaten in ancient Rome, but the Romans did not know it as the delicacy we know today, they used slaves to bring snow from the mountains. In the ruins of Pompeii there are traces that suggest that there were shops selling scraped ice sweetened with honey.
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The first homemade ice cream...
The first homemade ice cream was presented and tasted around 1560 at the court of Caterina de Medicini in Florence, presented by the architect Bernado Buontalenti it was almost a lemon sorbet cooled with snow.
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The first ice cream shop ...
In 1686 the Siliciano Francesco Procopio opened the first ice cream parlour in Paris using fresh fruit, honey, sugar and ice. In 1700 the ice cream arrived in America, when Giovanni Basiolo took it to New York. At that time there were many kinds and types of ice cream that were not known, but in 1773 the first ice cream advertisement appeared in a newspaper saying: ``Just arrived from London, Monsieur Filippo Lenzi, pastry chef and ice cream man!``<br />
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Expansion throughout Europe
In the early 1800s the Italian ice cream makers, located mainly in Venice, began to market and distribute their ice creams in Austria, Germany, Holland and Belgium and then throughout Europe.