Our first night in Philadelphia had extremely strange weather for the middle of July. The temperature was somewhere around 70 degrees, but it was pouring, the winds were gusting, umbrellas were useless and breaking, and the cold driving rain had soaked through all of our clothes from every side. (70 degrees sounds so warm now that the wind chill is somewhere around -3, but we were freezing and I couldn't stop shivering.) We intended to head straight back to the hotel from dinner since we were full from our Burmese feast and the weather was terrible, but we needed a break from Mother Nature halfway through. Capogiro Gelato was the perfect spot.
This photo was clearly taken on our way out, once the rain had subsided a bit
I was pretty full from dinner and didn't expect to eat much dessert, so I told A to just pick whatever flavors he wanted. He came back with Nutella and tiramisu. We were both pretty impressed with the gelato. It was so smooth and creamy and sweet. I was hesitant about the tiramisu, since I usually find the flavors of coffee and mascarpone overpowering in the actual dessert, but they were much more subtle here, which allowed the tiramisu scoop to be pretty complementary with the Nutella (which tasted like, well, Nutella). We liked both flavors.
Delicious gelato
I ended up having much more room for gelato than I thought I would, which disappointed A a little bit because he thought he would end up eating most of the gelato cup (sorry A!). We considered a return visit to Capogiro to try more flavors, but we never found the time during our short weekend trip. We would definitely return here or to another branch of Capogiro. This was some good gelato.
Capogiro Gelato has many locations, but the one we visited was at 119 S. 13th St (at Sansom).
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