Gelotti Ice Cream

Gelotti Ice Cream is an ice cream shop in Paterson, NJ. The shop serves handcrafted ice cream, authentic Italian gelato, Italian ice, frozen yogurt, novelty items, and custom cakes, along with espresso and other bakery offerings. Seasonal flavors rotate through the year and have included Apple Pie, Caramel Apple, Cherry Pistacio, Peppermint Stick, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, and Play Dough. Beyond the scoop shop, Gelotti operates a wholesale business supplying restaurants, cafes, pizzerias, and other food service partners throughout New Jersey and into neighboring states. Catering and online ordering for pickup are also available. The business holds a rating of 4.6 from its customer base, and draws visitors from Paterson and surrounding North Jersey communities as well as from farther afield.

Gelotti was founded in 1984 by Salvatore Sigona on Union Avenue in Paterson, where the shop has remained ever since. The business is still family-owned and now runs through his sons Robert and Joseph Sigona, who carry on the original recipes and standards while modernizing operations. Every batch is made on premises with premium ingredients, and flavors are developed in-house rather than outsourced. The menu pairs long-standing favorites with rotating seasonal creations, and the same trusted products are produced for wholesale accounts, giving Gelotti a footprint well beyond its single Paterson storefront. The shop continues to operate as an independent, family-run business rather than a chain, and treats catering, pickup, and walk-in service as part of one operation.

Gelotti sits at 2 Union Ave, along the main road of the same name and roughly a tenth of a mile from Union Boulevard. Pennington Park is about half a mile away, and the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Company Number 2 station is within roughly four-tenths of a mile, with McBride Avenue and Totowa Road both close by.

A Paterson original serving North Jersey for more than four decades, Gelotti combines a family-run scoop shop on Union Avenue with a wholesale operation that carries the same recipes to partners across the region.