The best ice cream in London

We visited Caliendo’s Gelato voted the best parlour in the UK for 2023 and ranked number one parlour in London by Timeout 2024.

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00:00This summer has felt a little short of ideal when it comes to sunshine but now

00:06the Sun is well and truly out in fact I've actually come into the woods to get

00:10a bit of shade it's so hot so what can we do to cool down well I can't think of

00:15a better way to do it than ice cream and today I'm heading to Calendios Gelato

00:20in Kentish Town it's been dubbed the best ice cream in the capital so much so

00:26that it was recently ranked as the number one scoop spot in London by

00:30timeout so let's go and see what this ice cream is all about

00:40we're in Kentish Town in North London we specifically came to this area because

00:47so Maclean's family the other half of the business who are the Calendios

00:53they came over from Naples in Italy in the 1800s the earliest census we

00:59find them on is 1890 we know that we're here a little bit before that and they

01:04set up as gelato makers and confectioners in Clerkenwell so when we

01:09knew we wanted to start the parlour up again they traded up to about 1950 when

01:16we knew they wanted to we wanted to start the sort of family history again

01:20as it were and we decided to draw a bit of an egg around anywhere that was

01:26within the area and we did a little bit of research and really liked Kentish

01:30Town's vibe so you wouldn't be allowed to use them nowadays but no so Mick and

01:40I both trained in Italy and in the UK always with Italian chefs we've kept

01:45everything very traditional with what we do and you'll see I think most Italians

01:49that come in realize the feel of the place is quite typically Italian I think

01:54we've kept the Kentish Town vibe with the street art and whatnot we use shout

02:00out to Dominique who's our artist she's another North London lass. Do you have

02:05any favourite flavours yourself? I personally love the you've got the

02:10Eton Mess there I love the Eton Mess and I tend to be a bit you know sweeter

02:14chocolatey we do a really great Rolo as well which is like chocolate caramel

02:19or whatnot yeah so we source from wherever we think is going to give us

02:22the best product so for example our pistachio we import directly from the

02:26farmer in Sicily but for us people are coming here for the gelato it's the main

02:31event for us so yeah it's it's going from strength to strength from us here

02:36in in in North London and you know we love the fact that we're residential

02:40we've got a lot of regulars but at the same time tourism is starting to really

02:45pick up in London and we're seeing a little bit of that effect as well so so

02:49yeah generally really positive for us and we love we love being in Kentish

02:53Town it's a great location for us