Gelatory

This is pure indulgence and not for the faint hearted and for anyone living by the phrase the diet starts on Monday - Chocolate & Toffee Pie. Chocolate Gelato, Chocolate Fudge Ripple, Dulce De Leche and Chocolate Biscuit Pie Crust 🥧 🍫

WE HAVE A WINNER…

Thanks to everyone who entered our biggest ever Brick Giveaway. There could only be one winner and after using a number generator to randomly select an entry number - the super-computer opted for Entry Number 256 of 1463 and selected Samuel Cannell to win our 2024 Inaugural Freedom To Flourish Brick Giveaway entitling them to a free Brick every week for the next Year!

For anyone who didn’t win, a reminder you can still purchase bricks in our stores over the counter and choose from a selection of any flavours we have on on that day.

Samuel, we have got in contact with you via the contact details you filled in the entry form with. Congratulations!

Anyone that knows me knows I’m a big fan of a Non Alcoholic Cocktail. Upon consuming one in the previous weeks there was a flavour pairing I don’t think I would ever have put together but my goodness it works phenomenally well. So this is Raspberry, Pineapple & Lemon and I am gonna put it out there and say it’s my favourite soft serve to date. Open today 1-9 with this Vegan special available in all three shops!

A little appreciation post for our Shakes? I feel like we have a growing contingent of people who try our shakes and then never look back, that then becomes their Gelatory order. Our shakes can be made with any of our Gelato flavours in the cabinet and in a large you can have up to 2 to make some insane combos.

Featured here is my shake order, nice and simple but a classic Milkshake done well - Fresh Strawberry which is on in all of our shops on this rainy Thursday! 🍓🥤

The demands put on me by the boss (also me) are challenging when you want to have a brand new flavour every day but when we’re open 7 days a week that’s 2 more a week than usual with no recovery and little thinking time. So there may be a few more classics appearing over the next couple of weeks because we can do them and do them pretty well. This wasn’t going to be a special but it’s a very tasty classic - Millionaires Shortbread. Toffee Shortbread Gelato, Dulce De Leche, Shortbread Chunks & Milk Chocolate Chips

Tuesday Spesh - Cherry Meringue Pie 🍒🥧

I think this is one of the simplest but tastiest combination of flavours, it’s a classic. I remember this was always my order when on Summer Holidays as a child. Raspberry 99 - Milk Gelato, our Raspberry Sauce and Crumbled Flake.

All shops open 11-9 today and also the last day to scan the QR code in store to enter our Brick giveaway competition!

Very excited for this one with a very lovely Ramsey Ingredient in it - Custard & Rhubarb Doughnut Gelato.

Fridays Special is an epic one - Nutella Fudge Brownie. I don’t think we need to say any more!

Some words on The Royal Show, our non attendance and a very exciting competition with a Mega Prize…

I’m a huge fan of The Royal Show. I think it’s a fantastic celebration of Manx Farming & Agriculture of which we at Gelatory are massive champions of, being high volume users of Manx Milk & Cream.

I’d love for us to attend the Royal Show to showcase our Gelato and up until Tuesday of this week we were planning on being amongst a number of other brilliant Manx Food Producers in the DEFA marquee at the event. Given the cancellation of the food and drink festival (an event we were very excited to be a part of) we were informed that DEFA with their marquee would have a greater presence & showcase at The Royal to which they invited producers to exhibit at to make up for the cancellation of the food and drink festival.

Sadly despite originally being told we were able to attend, on Tuesday Afternoon I was informed by DEFA on the day before we were due to set up (and after already doing a lot of prep for the event) that we now weren’t allowed to attend because of an exclusivity / sponsorship agreement the show has with a vendor. The irony of the email footer saying ‘Isle of Man. Giving you freedom to flourish’ was not lost on me.

Businesses and organisations are of course free to conduct themselves however they see fit. Maybe I just think differently but I’m a great believer that competition is healthy and more than anything choice for our Manx Community is an important option to have. Additionally I think it’s a shame that such a key event and celebration of the Isle of Man & Farming appears to be a closed shop for businesses that want to also join that celebration.

Anyway I just wanted to provide some context as a number of people have asked or messaged asking if we’ll be there and now you know why we’re not - we’re not allowed.

We do however have a massive competition we’re going to run across all of our stores this weekend as a Royal Show Special (Fri-Sun). In Peel, Ramsey & Douglas we have a QR Code where you can scan to enter our ‘Freedom to Flourish Brick Giveaway’. This will enter you into a draw where the prize is 1 x 500g Brick Every Week for the next year until the next Royal Show. Maybe we’ll make it an annual event also? That’s 52 x Bricks and a prize worth just under £600!

Best of luck to everyone that visits us and enters. All three shops are open Friday 1-9 and Sat/Sun 11-9 and to everyone attending The Royal Show, we hope you enjoy a fantastic event.

The chocolatey covered balls you see on top of this Salted Chocolate Gelato are Choc Covered Honeycomb bits. The combination is truly top tier.

Apologies I didn’t get round to posing a special yesterday, spinning too many plates currently but have given myself a first written warning so hoping it won’t happen again. This is more of a classic than a special that we have on occasionally but it’s a very good classic so worth mentioning - Vanilla & Biscoff. I love the simplicity of it, Good Vanilla Gelato or Ice Cream is hard to come by, ours I think is rather nice and the Biscoff Spread ripples through compliments it. These guys go together well if you fancy trying the duo. Open 1-9 in all 3 shops today.

So who remembers Cadbury Dream Bars???

Today is a momentous day for a couple of reasons. Firstly, Gelatory turns 6! 6 isn’t usually a milestone birthday but for me it feels a pretty big deal. From growing from 5 to 6 a lot has happened. In 12 months we’ve opened 2 new shops and had our fair share of challenges & stress as well as excitement & elation. Right now we’ve really settled into it and I look back at the last 12 months and the journey we’ve been on and am very happy with where we are now.

To celebrate today’s special occasion it’s my drink order - a Shirley Temple Soft Serve - Grenadine & Lemonade, On the bevs oyyyy oyyyy. For a number of reasons it’s sadly not an iconic Free Gelato day all round but if you visit one of our stores today, some of you may be in for a surprise!

The other momentous event of the day is our first ever Peel Carnival. If somebody had told me this time last year we’d have a cute little shop on the beautiful Peel Quay and be serving Gelato at Peel Carnival I’d have laughed at you and said NO WAY. But here we are ready to rock and roll and stocked up (I’m writing this post at 3am shortly after finishing churning all our Gelato for Peel).

All shops open today 11-9 and if anyone is bringing in Birthday Presents my favourite clothes shop is Primark x

This is our take on the Jaffa Cake and it is absolute SLAY - Jaffa Cake Gelato with Vanilla Sponge, Orange Ripple & Dark Chocolate Chips 🍊🍫🍰

The Island is so lucky to have one of my favourite artists here tonight - Paolo Nutini. In honour of one of his most famous songs ‘Candy’ I’ve turned my favourite Candy into Gelato!

M&S are very protective over the sweet pigs they sell so this is called Paul The Pig Sweet Gelato. I can’t tell you where the sweet Pigs were sourced to make this Gelato but I will say I was nearby a supermarket located on Strand Street at approx 1330 yesterday. This one is Tasty!! 🐷🍬

Annually I make this flavour and try to improve it each time, I’ve made it a bit simple this year after tweaking the recipe several times over the last week - Cinnamon Oat Cookie - Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Gelato, Oat Cookie Crumb & Milk Chocolate Chunks 🍪🤤

Keeping it Fruity on this fineeeee Wednesday, we haven’t done a Fresh Banana one for a while so here one is with White Chocolate. Banana White Choc Chip!

Time to Salted Caramelise the Tunnocks Teacake. This is Salted Caramel Teacake consisting of Marshmallow, Salted Caramel Sauce, Milk Chocolate & Biscuit.

The post about todays special is late, apologies it turned out I needed a few extra hours of sleep after a rather intense week & weekend. Working away in the kitchen now and todays special is a simple one but very tasty if you enjoy Custard - It’s Custard Gelato, nostalgia from a childhood dessert in a Gelato and all I need now is someone to make me a crumble!

Tropical weather calls for Tropical Soft Serve. Refreshing, fruity, vegan and tasty! 🤤

Saturday Diary Entry: Make White Chocolate Cherry Shortbread Slice - White Choccie & Shortbread Gelato, Cherry Ripple, Shortbread & White Chocolate Chunks 🍒

The Cadbury yoghurts you get in the supermarket are truly top tier. Buttons or Flakes, amazing - a fave dessert. Anyway it’s the inspo for today’s Gelato but I couldn’t decide which one I prefer so I’ve just gone with both. This is Cadbury Button & Flake.

We have a new dessert permanently on the menu - Gelato Nacho Bowl. Waffle Cone chips, two scoops of your choice, a sauce of your choice and a topping of sprinkles!

Peel Doormat - Arrived ✅

Strawberries & Chocolate were a bit of a hit a few weeks ago so here it is in Gelato form. Strawberry Choc Chip Gelato made with fresh Strawbs & top tier milk chocolate 🍓🍫

We are currently hiring with a very small timeframe to get an application in! We have a couple of vacancies in each of our teams in Peel, Douglas & Ramsey.

If you’re passionate about our Gelato, being a reliable team member and offering friendly customer service we’d love to hear from you.

We’ll consider all levels of availability if you’re looking for full time, part time or seasonally. If you’re a younger person looking to apply for a role with us please note we require any team members to be in or going into Year 11 at school as a minimum age.

Perks include a competitive wage, ability for flexible working hours, top banter, working with Gelatory Famous Honey / Hannah, team socials, lots of Gelato to sample, wearing Crocs on shift and many more.

To apply please send an email with a covering letter and your CV to [email protected] indicating also which store you’d like us to consider your application for. The window for Applications closes on Sunday of this week.

Please note because of the volume of applications we receive we may not be able to reply to unsuccessful applicants.

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This is what we call in the trade, a top tier mashup - Terrys Chocolate Orange Oreo.

Don’t worry, Be Happy Hippo. Open today 1-9 in IM1, IM5 & IM8!

Here is Hannah modelling one of our new Uniform T’s and showcasing the fact we’re now open in Douglas, Peel & Ramsey daily until 2100 for the duration of the school holidays!

Our new T’s to match our cup and colour scheme designed also by Hannah who you can follow on the Insta. She’s getting ready to work every one of 42 days, JK - the part timer is off on her hols on Wednesday so her many admirers have till then to say hello before she’s out the picture for a couple of weeks. Fear not though, she’ll be back and putting in the hours on her return - it’ll be like she’s never been on holiday.

All we need now is some decent weather and Summer will be underway! ☀️🍦