Futura Granita + Gelato, 964 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto, ON (2026)

10/01/2026

🍇 Coronation grape beauty shots and transformation -> Coronation grape sorbetto

We are officially into autumn flavours 🍂🍁

💅🏼 Eng C. Lau

10/01/2026

Happy October 🎃
Sadly, this is the last week for granita this season. Thank you thank you to everyone who enjoyed granita with us over the summer. We miraculously found one last hidden block of Sicilian almond paste to make a limited final batch of granita with, so this flavour will be available until it runs out.

🍇 It’s finally time for Coronation grape- we’ve turned it into a beautiful w**e-hued sorbetto.

🥛Yogurt bianco- plain white yogurt gelato, the perfect tart pairing flavour.

🍒 MandorlAmarena: Dairy free toasted almond (mandorla) gelato rippled with Italian Wild Amarena cherry sauce.

🍫 Cremino: Our Piemonte hazelnut gelato with layers of chocolate hazelnut sauce.

Pistacchio di Bronte is on the GRANITA menu this week, not available as gelato.

Our collab flavour with Jöey Nordic Seed Crisps : Lemon, Rosemary & White Chocolate is available in single serve and takeaway pints. Lemon cream gelato with crunchy rosemary and black pepper seed crisps suspended in a white chocolate sauce. Bags of seed crisps are also available for purchase in-store!

See you this week for granita and gelato, vi aspettiamo!
Can’t wait to see you ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

09/27/2026

It’s Sunday! Come try this week’s hot flaves before we switch things up next week!

Our collab flavour with Jöey Nordic Seed Crisps will be on for three weeks: Lemon, Rosemary & White chocolate , and the Rosemary and Black Pepper seed crisps that are in the gelato will also be available for purchase in-store.

Lemon cream gelato with crunchy seed crisps suspended in white chocolate sauce 🍋

DAIRY FREE Peanut butter and fudge 🥜🍫

We didn’t think we were salted caramel lovers, but this week we’ve been converted! Super creamy, buttery, with a nice hit of salt.

We turned Ginger Gold apples from Sun-Ray Orchards into a gelato that tastes like apple pie 🥧 with chunks of house-made cinnamon oat crumble.

Plum & Purple shiso sorbetto (dairy free) is made with blue plums (thank you Sun-Ray Orchards !) and an infusion of purple shiso (thank you Lindsie Canton !). The shiso lends not only a beautiful magenta colour, but an earthy, clove / anise flavour profile to this plum forward flavour.

09/26/2026

Granita season will be coming to a close soon, but the best flavours of the season are available for you to take home in freeze pops 🌈

All made in-house with fresh fruit (or an infusion- coffee), a bit of water and a touch of organic cane sugar.

🍋Bergamotto
🍑 Nectarine
🍈 Cantaloupe
🧛🏻‍♂️ Vampire plum
☕️ Coffee
💙 Blue plum

09/25/2026

New season, new fruit 🍏🍂

Swipe to see freshly picked crisp Ginger Gold apples from Sun-Ray Orchards be transformed into Ginger Gold apple crumble gelato.

The apples are roasted with cinnamon and brown sugar before they go into our gelato base. We top it off with house-made oat crumble and a drizzle of caramel sauce. Welcome to Fall 🍂

Available this week for single serve and takeaway pints.

09/24/2026

We’re excited to announce a special collab flavour with our friends Jöey Nordic Seed Crisps that will be available for the next three weeks: Lemon, rosemary & white chocolate gelato 🍋 This is a creamy lemon gelato with crunchy pieces of Jöey Nordic Seed Crisps Rosemary and Black Pepper gluten-free seed crisps suspended in a white chocolate sauce. Available in single serve and pints. Bonus! The seed crisps will also be available for purchase for the duration of the collab!

NEW seasonal flavour this week: 🍏 Ginger Gold apple crumble, with a cinnamon oat crumble. This tastes like apple pie 🥧

Thank you to Lindsie Canton for your generous purple shiso gift, which we have paired with plum this week. If you tried the Shiso Lime last week, give this one a shot for comparison!

Pistacchio di Bronte is back in the gelato cabinet this week, after we received negative feedback for having it only as granita 😆

Hope you see your flavour on this list, see you soon! Vi aspettiamo ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

Granita end date has now been amended to October 4 so you still have time to enjoy the final flavours.

NEW in the granita cabinet this week: Horchata, the beverage made with rice, almond and cinnamon. Make your cup a dirty horchata by combining it with the coffee granita (inspo MASA DELI & CAFE 🫶🏼)

And Japanese green tea granita is back so we have something for both the coffee and tea lovers.

09/20/2026

Forever #1 summertime granita flavour: Cantaloupe

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Today is the last day for cantaloupe granita, and we bid farewell to this joyful flavour until next year 🧡🍈

09/19/2026

💌💝🎂
Dear FUTURA,
Happy 9th birthday! Your parents are too busy making gelato, granita, finding the tastiest fruit, cleaning and processing it ( Eng C. Lau 🙏🏼 from the bottom of our hearts for taking care of that part), and tracking down nut orders from Italy to give you a proper birthday party right now. Please be patient until October when we end the regular season, and we’ll invite all your friends for a super fun celebration, including a special DJ 🎧🎶

Dear friends of FUTURA,
Thank you for your enthusiasm, encouragement and support over the past 9 (!!) years. It is our joy to make gelato and granita for you and to be part of your lives in a small way. Thank you for sharing your energy with us each week! Stay tuned for updates on our season finale / 9 year celebration. We hope you can join us in October 🎃

To the dream team: van maltese Eng C. Lau Amo Taglioni 𝓜𝓙 🧿 Paolina Loseto allegradbavaro
Working with each you is a privilege, remember to never say ☕️ 😂😉

09/18/2026

Sometimes this is how a gelato flavour comes to life: A generous gift from our extended community of friends and neighbours (thank you Yi!), from wanting to capture the flavors of a place and a season, the desire to create something new out of a thing that could have been discarded, respect for the work of Mother Nature.

Sometimes it takes a village to make a gelato, and it’s how our Fig Leaf gelato came to life this week.

09/17/2026

Lots of great local flavours this week, including a special pop up flavour from Alberobello Gelato, the brainchild of chef Lorenzo Loseto, made at GEORGE Restaurant

Chef Loseto’s flavour, Vanilla custard and Golden Plum jam, is available this week for single serve and takeaway pints.

Two hyper local flavours this week: Shiso lime and Fig leaf, thanks to our friend Yi and his amazing garden. Shiso’s flavour profile is akin to a slightly spicy basil/mint. The lime really makes the flavour pop!

Jack & Jill is inspired by Lois’ childhood Dairy Queen sundae choice: sweet milk gelato rippled with chocolate sauce and house-made marshmallow fluff (contains egg white).

If you’re a lemon person and enjoy tart flavours, give the Bergamotto granita a try this week. A cousin of the lemon, but with more floral notes. A citrus fruit that is grown very abundantly in Calabria.

And yes you see correctly, we still have cantaloupe! It’s a miracle of Mother Nature. But this will indeed be the last week of our favourite orange fruit.

Lastly, Cremino gelato is back. This is our Nocciola (hazelnut) Piemonte gelato that has swirls of chocolate hazelnut cream throughout.
And if you want pistacchio this week, it’s available as a granita. That means, the flavour is even more intense and pronounced since there is no dairy buffer! You’re eating full on pistacchio di Bronte.

Its going to be a very good week.
See you soon, a presto ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

09/13/2026

The seasons are changing 🍂
We start the granita season with strawberries 🍓and end it with pears 🍐.

Granita will be served until the end of September, enjoy the final weeks of this special treat!

09/09/2026

It feels like a transition season right now… still a bit of summer and hints of autumn 🍂

Summer:
🍈 Cantaloupe
🍑 Nectarine
🌽 Sweet yellow corn

Autumn:
🍐 Bartlett pear
🤎 Cinnamon
🔵 Blue plum

We found one last batch of vampire plums in our freezer so 🧛🏻‍♂️ plum is back as a sorbetto this week. Yogurt bianco (plain white yogurt) is also back, as is rice pudding and jam. Made with starchy carnaroli rice (used to make risotto) and swirled with our house made raspberry jam.
And if you know us, we love stracciatella so much that whenever we get the chance, we will happily add it to another base flavour ☺️ So enjoy eating and saying “matcha stracciatella” this week 🍵🍫

Granita is still available until the end of September. Enjoy it now!

If your flavour is on this list, we’ll see you soon! ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

09/05/2026

Swipe for the transformation 💜

Sun-Ray Orchards Blue plums -> Blue plum & Earl Grey sorbetto

The taste of changing seasons: the brightness of fresh plums with the subtle depth of black tea in the background. 🍂

Our recommended pairings with Blue plum & Earl Grey sorbetto: fior di panna, dark chocolate or pistacchio di Bronte.

09/04/2026

A few dairy and dairy-free options on this week’s menu, starting with TOASTED BRIOCHE AND MARMALADE. A breakfast-y gelato! Buttery brioche made for us by Tito Toronto gets toasted with butter, brown sugar and a little hit of salt. This “toast” pairs gets paired with orange marmalade in a milky vanilla-essenced gelato base.

BANANA SORBETTO (DAIRY-FREE): Straight up banana flavour 🍌🍌🍌 Sorbetto is WATER-BASE gelato. It’s smooth and creamy just like regular gelato, just without the milk.

WHITE SESAME PISTACHIO RIPPLE is a DAIRY-FREE tahini gelato with striations of pistachio cream and toasted pistachios. If you want a dairy-free flavour that has richness and umami, this one’s for you.

LICORICE ROOT STRACCIATELLA: Not like your regular black or red licorice, this is licorice root directly from the heritage family company, Amarelli in Calabria. Licorice root flavour has notes of molasses, anise, and if you’re a fan of Italian amaro digestivos, you’ll be familiar with the tasting notes. We added dark chocolate stracciatella for a flavour and texture contrast this time!

09/03/2026

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7
8:30am - 12:30pm

We’ll be celebrating the continuation (not the end) of summer with another GRANITA BREAKFAST, in partnership with our friends Tito Toronto 🥐

This is your chance to experience a Sicilian style breakfast: granita and brioche in the morning starting at 8:30am, ending at 12:30pm. Espresso drinks will be available for purchase along with a few other baked goods by Tito Toronto

This event is FIRST COME FIRST SERVED so there is no need to RSVP.

Enjoy your breakfast out at our outdoor stand up bar, Italian style, or take it to go. Let’s soak up the last days of summer 🌞

964 ST. CLAIR AVE WEST
See you soon, early birds 🐓

09/02/2026

Happy September! 🍂
The best seasonal flavours are happening now, if you didn’t already know! Flagging the local Ontario flavours below:

🍑 Red haven peach (granita)
🍈 Cantaloupe (granita)
🔵 Blue plum & Earl Grey (sorbetto)
🌽 Sweet yellow corn (gelato)
🥒 Barese cucumber (granita)

All flavours available till the end of the weekend except possibly Barese cucumber, which we will serve until we run out, and will replace with another flavour.

Answers to some FAQs:
✅ Granita will be served until the end of September.
✅ We stay open until the end of October, close for the month of November and re-open in December.
✅ Yes, another granita breakfast is happening soon. Stay tuned.

See you soon, vi aspettiamo! We look forward to serving you this week ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

08/23/2026

Are you sick of seeing this blue table yet? 😅
Eng C. Lau chooses his gelato/granita combo by colour contrast and today he chose yellow watermelon sorbetto with chocolate granita con coconut panna (sotto e sopra: in the middle and on top!). 💛🤍🤎

Completely dairy free! Vegan friendly.

08/19/2026

You’re looking at a peak season gelato/granita menu:

🍉 Yellow watermelon
🍑 Nectarine
🧛🏻‍♀️ Vampire plum
🍈 Cantaloupe
🍹Lemon iced tea

Want to know about Caramel Ruffle Shuffle?
It’s a caramel gelato with RUFFLES potato chips and white chocolate. And if you like other chunky textured flavours try the Biscoff cookie which has pieces of cookies mixed in to our dairy free Biscoff base.

Can’t wait to serve all of you, see you soon!
Vi aspettiamo ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

08/13/2026

Two dairy free stunners on the menu this week:
WHITE NECTARINE SORBETTO
The pretty pink colour comes from skins while the flesh of the fruit is white 🎀

White nectarine is more floral than yellow nectarine, truly a special flavour specific to this season and this area (Niagara) where it’s grown.

TAHINI & DATE
Dairy free and so creamy!
Nutty and earthy from the tahini with a deep honey flavour from the dates. The richness of this flavour comes from the tahini, no need for dairy.

08/13/2026

Sometimes we post the flavours late because in high season we are working with what is fresh, what’s being harvested, what is *in season*.

We got an evening delivery of freshly pruned fig leaves from Carlo’s cousin Marco Bellagio Fruit Tree Services Inc. so we last minute added Fig Leaf gelato on the menu. The leaves are sooo fragrant ☘️ Like smelling a fig tree after it’s rained. The flavour has the loveliest essence of fig, vanilla and coconut.

Carlo is excited about White Nectarine sorbetto- floral and tangy, he describes it as a peach bouquet 💐🍑

We’re also loving the Chinotto sorbetto- if you like Brio, you know this Italian amaro cola drink. Very refreshing, with a citrus finish thanks to the lime and bergamot we added.

Vampire plum 🧛🏻‍♀️ is in the granita cabinet this week. A tart, grape-y plum that almost tastes like w**e.

Sicilian almond granita is back this week! A few of you did not enjoy this flavour- this is a marzipan-y almond, not a toasted almond flavour profile. Think latte di mandorla.

Locking to match flavours? Fruits go well with nuts and chocolate. And always with fior di panna or stracciatella.

Thanks for reading, see you soon!
Ci vediamo presto ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

08/05/2026

This is the time of year when so many good things are being harvested that our freezers and cabinets are bursting at the seams. 🍑🍈🥒🌱

🧛🏻‍♀️Vampire plums! You’ll know how they got their name when you see the colour of the flesh. Bright and tart! 🩸

🍈Cantaloupe granita, our ultimate summertime flavour. The one we look forward to all year is finally here. 🧡🧡🧡

🥒Barese cucumber AKA Carosello: a cucumber that’s sweet with a dense flesh. It’s almost like a melon. Always in the granita cabinet this time of year.

Peach is in the granita cabinet this week and apricot cream gelato is also back this week.

Nocciola Piemonte is dairy free this week (it’s made with a water base but don’t worry it is creamy!)

Pistachio people, we have the very special pistacchio di Bronte in both gelato and granita forms this week. Take your pick 💚

The best peak season flavours are now. The best time to have granita is now. So… we’ll see you this week, right? 😉

Vi aspettiamo ✌🏼
THURS - SUN
4-9pm

08/01/2026

We always say we are Mother Nature’s midwife, grateful for her bounty and transforming it into gelato and granita.

Hope you are enjoying all the stone fruits right now! We are having our daily fill of apricots, nectarines and peaches, and if you want to enjoy them in a version that’s cold and creamy, stop by and visit us.

Thank you thank you Sun-Ray Orchards 🌞

Apricot cream gelato is in the cabinet this week 🧡

07/30/2026

To the person (s) who asked for pistacchio di Bronte granita, your wish has been granted 💚
And to all the pistachio lovers, this week we have both granita and gelato versions on the menu.

Now if you’re on team nocciola (hazelnut) like us, this week it’s in the Cremino gelato: Piemonte hazelnut gelato that’s been rippled with chocolate hazelnut cream. 🤎🍫

Yuka from Issho Bakery generously gifted us her famous peanut butter miso corn Chex squares this week which will be chopped up into a sweet cream gelato which will also get a nice drizzle of our peanut butter fudge sauce. This flavour is gluten free. All the flavours this week are gluten free.

Milk chocolate gelato is back so if you’re looking for a dairy free chocolate experience, you will not regret getting the chocolate granita.

We wanted all our dairy free friends to try the haskap berries this week so we made Mad Haskap- a cashew base, dairy free Madagascar vanilla base gelato rippled with our house made Ontario haskap berry compote.

Lastly, what is White Coffee? It’s a coffee gelato where we’ve cold steeped the beans so the gelato is still white but the flavour is coffee. It’s a slightly milder, milkier coffee flavour than our usual brown coffee gelato. ☕️

Lots of tart flavours on the granita menu this week- balance it out with the chocolate and pistacchio! More granita flavours to come on Monday for GRANITA BREAKFAST 🍧

Ok I’ll shut up now.
See you soon, vi aspettiamo! ✌🏼

THURS - SUN
4-9pm

07/29/2026

It’s happening…
We’ve partnered with our pals Tito Toronto once again this year for GRANITA BREAKFAST 🍧

This is your chance to experience a Sicilian breakfast- granita and brioche in the morning starting at 8:30am, ending at 12:30pm. Espresso drinks will be available for purchase along with a few other baked goods by Tito Toronto

This event is FIRST COME FIRST SERVED so there is no need to RSVP.

You may not be in Italy, but let us bring Italy to you! 🇮🇹

964 ST. CLAIR AVE WEST
See you soon, early birds 🐓

07/25/2026

Ontario nectarine -> Ontario nectarine granita

Swipe to see the transformation. ✨
Everything starts with the quality of the “materia prima” (raw ingredients), thank you Sun-Ray Orchards for growing beautiful fruit for us to work with 🙏🏼

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