Caliendo’s Gelato

01/10/2026

We’re taking a little well-earned break! ☀️
Caliendo’s will be closed while we recharge our batteries.
We’ll be back from 11th October, refreshed and ready with new ideas 💡 🍨

Thank you for your continued support — see you soon!
Mic & Fiona x

19/09/2026

🌾🏆 HARVEST FESTIVAL COMPETITION – FREE TO ENTER! 🏆🌾

We’re adding some Harvest Festival fun to our September Farmers Market on Sunday 20th September!

🥕 Biggest Vegetable – £10 Alfred’s Fruit & Veg voucher
🥔 Weirdest Shaped Vegetable – Prize from Northampton Cheese Co. (TBC)
🌻 Best Harvest Table Decoration – Medium gelato + 1 litre milkshake from Caliendo’s Gelato 🍨

How to enter:
Simply bring your entry along and set it up on our competition tables between 10am–11:45am.

🏆 Judging & prize giving: 12–12:30pm

📍 Marsh Gibbon Village Hall
⏰ Market open 10am–1pm
🎟️ FREE to enter & all ages welcome!

Got something weird, wonderful or absolutely HUGE growing in the garden? Bring it along! 🥕😂🎃

Please share and help us spread the word! 🌾

19/09/2026

09/09/2026

🍨☕🥐 We’re at the markets tomorrow! 🥛

Come and find us for a little taste of something lovely…

🍨 Our award-winning artisan gelato
☕ Freshly made coffee
🥐 Buttery croissants — perfect with your morning coffee
🥛 Fresh local farm milk
🍓 Plus delicious flavoured farm milk

Our milk comes from a wonderful local family-run dairy farm, and we love being able to bring some of the very same beautiful fresh milk we use to make our gelato straight to the market too. From farm to gelato… and now to your fridge! 🐄❤️

Whether you’re popping by for your morning coffee and croissant, stocking up on fresh milk, or deciding that September is absolutely still gelato weather (it is 😉), we’d love to see you.

📍 Wing Village Market — 9am–12pm
📍 Great Brickhill — 2:30pm–4:30pm

Come hungry, bring a cool bag for your gelato and milk, and say hello!

Local milk. Proper coffee. Fresh croissants. Award-winning gelato.Not a bad way to spend a Thursday. ❤️🇮🇹

08/09/2026

🏆 WE’RE FINALISTS FOR 6 YEARS IN A ROW! 🏆

We’re absolutely thrilled to share that TWO of our products have made it through as finalists in the Quality Food Awards, marking an amazing 6 consecutive years as finalists💫

🧡 Seabuckthorn & Orange Sorbet
Finalist in the Ice Cream & Lollies category — Our bright, zingy sorbet, packed with pure Seabuckthorn puree and an orange ripple, this has been a customer favourite for years

🍨 Fior di Latte
Finalist in the Foodservice category - The purest expression of what we do. Unhomogenised local milk & cream,slow churned traditional Italian gelato-making, with nowhere for anything to hide.

For a small independent producer like us, being recognised year after year by the longest running food awards makes us so happy.

We’ve always believed that gelato starts with exceptional ingredients and proper craftsmanship, so seeing both an adventurous sorbet AND our beautifully simple Fior di Latte reach the finals makes us incredibly proud.

Now we wait for the results… 🤞🏆

BritishFoodAwards

06/09/2026

All set up ready for Mentmore Village Fete, the sun is shining and the gelato is cold ☀️🍨

📌Mentmore Village Green 1pm - 5pm

31/08/2026

One year ago, we closed the doors to our Kentish Town parlour 🍨

And what a year it’s been 💫

We still miss our regulars enormously — the familiar faces, the chats over the counter, hearing your life updates and knowing your usual order before you’d even asked

But closing one door really did open another ✅

We’ve moved into our new production unit, built some incredible new business relationships, supplied more customers across the country, scooped at more weddings, events and farmers’ markets — and survived a summer of heatwaves that kept us busier than ever! ☀️

We’ve also added more awards to the cabinet 🏆 while continuing to make gelato without compromising on the ingredients or standards we believe in

One improvement we’re especially proud of is sourcing our milk & cream directly from a local, family-run dairy farm and their own single herd 🐄 🥛

In incredibly tough times for British farmers, we are proud to that we can support a family farm. It also takes us another step towards something hugely important to us — knowing exactly where our ingredients come from and sourcing directly from farmers and producers wherever possible 🧑‍🌾

And life has changed outside Caliendo’s too…

We’ve had more precious time with family and friends and finally started our dream hobby of beekeeping — even extracting our very first honey this summer 🐝🍯

To our Kentish Town customers who continue to support us , to our wonderful new local customers and our business clients across the country — thank you ❤️

One year later, Caliendo’s looks different.

But the passion, standards and family behind it haven’t changed
Let’s see what another year brings 💪

Mic & Fiona x

30/08/2026

PSA So excited to be collaborating again with Teas & C’s bringing out award-winning gelato to Palmers Green this bank holiday weekend ☀️

One Day Only - Run, don’t walk 🏃🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️



👉 Today 12pm - 4pm
📌Teas & C’s Green Lanes, Palmers Green. N13

26/08/2026

💔 We are absolutely heartbroken at the loss of Dolly Parton

It’s difficult to imagine a world without Dolly in it. Somehow, she felt like one of those people who would simply be around forever.

For us, she was far more than an incredible voice and songwriter. Dolly represented so many things we admire — hard work, determination, generosity, humour, family and never forgetting where you came from.

She built an extraordinary career while remaining unmistakably herself. No apologies. No pretence. Just enormous talent, a huge heart and plenty of rhinestones.

Her music has played in our lab, our cars and through countless long days at Caliendo’s. Today those songs will sound just a little different.

This is our favourite quote of hers ❤️

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton

Thank you for the music, the laughter and for showing generations of women that you can be strong, successful, kind and completely yourself.

Rest in peace, Dolly. 🕊️

We will always love you.

05/08/2026

🛍️Join us at the village market tomorrow!🎉

We’re celebrating our recent Great Taste Awards, so every gelato flavour we’ll be bringing is a Great Taste Award winner! If you haven’t tried our gelato yet, tomorrow is the perfect opportunity 🍨

We’ll also have award-winning fresh farm milk from Aston Abbotts, also recently awarded 1 Great Taste Star 🌟 We will have their delicious milkshakes, and a selection of freshly baked pastries, including almond croissants to have with your coffee ☕️🥐

We’ve missed seeing our regulars so come and say hello, enjoy some of the UK’s finest artisan gelato. We can’t wait to see you!

📌 Wing Village Market 9am - 12pm
📌 Great Brickhill Market 2.30pm - 4.30pm

If you can’t make the market, just call us to preorder a collection from Leighton Buzzard or delivery 🚚💨

29/07/2026

Two 3-Star Great Taste Awards.
Two 1-Star Awards.
One incredibly proud family business ❤️
Winning awards and being recognised at a national level never loses its shine 🏆

As a small family business, we pour everything into what we do. From collecting fresh unhomogenised milk from our local farm, to making every batch from scratch, refining recipes, delivering orders, serving weddings and events, and then doing it all again the next day. There isn’t a huge factory or a large team behind Caliendo’s—just a family with an obsession for making exceptional gelato 🍨

That’s why the results mean so much to us!

💚Bronte Pistachio 🌟🌟🌟
🤎Belgian Milk Chocolate 🌟🌟🌟
🥛 Fior di Latte 🌟
🍫Stracciatella 🌟

This year, over 15,000 food and drink products from more than 3,900 producers across 116 countries were entered into the Great Taste Awards and judged completely blind by hundreds of food experts.

Of the thousands of products entered:
⭐ Around 28% receive 1 Star – awarded to products that are Simply Delicious.
⭐⭐ Around 10% achieve 2 Stars – recognising products that are Outstanding.
⭐⭐⭐ Just 2% are awarded 3 Stars – reserved for products described as Exquisite and among the very best in the world.

To have all four products we entered recognised, with every single one winning an award, is an achievement we’re incredibly proud of. But to have two of them awarded the highest accolade of 3 Stars is beyond anything we could have hoped for.

These awards belong to everyone who has supported us over the years. Every customer who has bought a scoop, every wedding and corporate client who trusted us with their special day, every stockist who believes in our products, every chef who trusts us with their menus and everyone who has recommended us to friends and family 💚🍨🇮🇹

28/07/2026

We’re incredibly proud to announce that at the 2026 Great Taste Awards, Caliendo’s Gelato has been awarded

🌟🌟🌟 Bronte Pistachio DOP
🌟🌟🌟 Belgian Milk Chocolate

🌟Fior di Latte
🌟Stracciatella

To be awarded 3-stars is one of the highest honours in the food world, reserved for products judged to be truly extraordinary. To receive two 3-star awards in the same year is something we’re immensely proud of!

Our Bronte Pistachio is made using pistachios handpicked from the slopes of Mount Etna, while our Belgian Chocolate showcases the depth and intensity of exceptional cocoa. Alongside them, our Fior di Latte and Stracciatella have also been recognised with 1-star awards, celebrating the beauty of our locally sourced single-herd unhomogenised milk and letting outstanding ingredients speak for themselves

These awards belong to everyone who has supported our journey—from our wonderful customers and stockists to our suppliers, friends and family. Thank you for believing in what we do ❤️

We remain committed to making gelato the traditional way: small batches, unhomogenised local milk, supporting farmers using the finest ingredients from around the world 👨‍🌾
Guild of Fine Food Red Barn Farm Dairy MOOTRITIOUS Milk & Shake

19/07/2026

Happy National Ice Cream Day! 🍨🍧

We may be proudly gelato, but today we’ll happily celebrate all things frozen! ❄️

It’s been a busy week serving scoops at corporate events, beautiful weddings, private parties and pop-ups, taking us everywhere from Central London to the Isle of Wight and Hertfordshire 🚚

Whether you’re planning a wedding, company event, birthday or celebration, we’d love to bring a little gelato magic to your special occasion 🎉

📩 Get in touch to book our award-winning gelato cart for your next event!

15/07/2026

Unfortunately, we won’t be at the local markets for the next 2 weeks due to events and corporate bookings

We are happy to do deliveries or collections for preorders, just contact us to arrange on WhatsApp 07490968111

Hope to see you all soon 🍨🍧

08/07/2026

☀️Well we all prayed for sun and the sun gods took the assignment seriously but we’ve got just the thing to keep you cool! 🍨❄️

We’ll be at our local markets tomorrow with plenty of artisan gelato, refreshing sorbets, creamy milkshakes, iced coffees and our farm-fresh milk.

This week’s flavours are:
🍯 Salted Butter Caramel
🍒 Black Forest
🍨Madagascan Vanilla
🍓 Strawberry Eton Mess
💜Blackberry & Lemon sorbet
🥭 Kesar Mango sorbet

We’ll also have freshly baked pastries waiting for you too 🥐

With the forecast looking hot 🔥 we’d hate for you to miss out. If there’s a flavour or two that you’d like us to keep aside, just send us a message and we’ll reserve it for collection.

See you tomorrow for a little taste of summer in Italy! ☀️💛

📌Wing Village Market 9-12pm
📌Great Brickhill Market 2.30pm - 4.30pm

❤️

06/07/2026

THANK YOU, PALMERS GREEN! 💚

What an incredible afternoon! A huge thank you to everyone who came along yesterday and enjoyed a free scoop, courtesy of the Harry Styles Together Together tour. Seeing the smiles on so many faces was exactly what it was all about.

These opportunities don’t come around very often, but when they do, they create a wonderful butterfly effect. One small act of kindness can brighten someone’s day, spark a conversation, make a new memory, or simply send people on their way with a little more spring in their step. After all, a scoop of gelato is about far more than just dessert 🍨

In the spirit of Treat People with Kindness, we hope we spread a little joy throughout Palmers Green yesterday 🥰

A very special thank you to Teas & Cs for hosting us, embracing our inspired tea and coffee flavours, and for all the wonderful customer feedback. We loved collaborating with you, and after such a warm welcome… we’re certain this won’t be the last time. We’ll definitely be back! 📆

✅If you’d love to see Caliendo’s Gelato pop up at your café, business, event or workplace, we’d love to hear from you.

📣Send us a message and let’s create something special together 🍨