🗺️ Shops I like

1

Gelateria Dodo

📍 Tkalčićeva 12, Zagreb Upper Town

Tiny counter, eleven flavours, a queue that moves faster than it looks. The pistachio is the reason to come.

• 🍨 Per scoop
• ✨Premium feel
• 🌗Half-scoops
• 🦄Distinctive

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Flavours I have tested

• Bronte pistachio 🍦Creamy 🤔Interesting
  Khaki-brown, properly savoury. Best in the city.
• Dark chocolate & sea salt 🍦Creamy 🤔Interesting
  Bitter, dense, not a hint of sweetness.
• Stracciatella 🍦Creamy
  Good, but the chocolate shards could be thinner.
• Lemon sorbet 💧Refreshing
  Sharp and clean, resets the palate.

2

Ledeni Medo

📍 Ilica 74, Zagreb Britanski trg

Neighbourhood place that has not changed the recipe in twenty years, and does not intend to.

• 🍨 Per scoop
• 💶Good price

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Flavours I have tested

• Bourbon vanilla 🍦Creamy
  Visible seeds, eggy in the good way.
• Hazelnut 🍦Creamy
  Roasty, slightly grainy, honest.
• Blueberry
  Tastes more of jam than of fruit.

3

Scoop Republic

📍 Trg bana Jelačića 3, Zagreb Main square

Loud, bright, built for tourists — but the fruit sorbets are genuinely made in-house that morning.

• 📉 Tiered
• 🪑Top experience

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Flavours I have tested

• Mango sorbet 💧Refreshing
  Alphonso, no water taste at all.
• Cookies & cream 🍦Creamy
  Fine. Exactly what it says.
• Salted caramel 🍦Creamy
  Salt is real, caramel is a bit shy.
• Raspberry sorbet 💧Refreshing
  Sharp and seedy, in a good way.

4

Vanilla Tram

📍 Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 8, Zagreb Zrinjevac

A window in the side of a building, a bench under the plane trees, and a very short flavour list.

• 🍨 Per scoop
• 🪑Top experience
• 🌗Half-scoops
• 🦄Distinctive

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Flavours I have tested

• Madagascar vanilla 🍦Creamy
  The whole point of the place.
• Coffee 🍦Creamy
  Made with actual espresso, not syrup.
• Fior di latte 🍦Creamy
  Milk, and nothing to hide behind.

5

Sladoled & Sons

📍 Trg Petra Preradovića 5, Zagreb Cvjetni trg

Family shop, third generation, and they will tell you about it. Worth listening to.

• 🍨 Per scoop
• ✨Premium feel
• 🦄Distinctive

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Flavours I have tested

• Fig & walnut 🍦Creamy 🤔Interesting
  Seasonal, only in September, plan around it.
• Rose & cardamom 🧪Innovative 🤔Interesting
  Perfumed to the point of soap. Try once.
• Bitter almond 🤔Interesting
  Marzipan-ish, grows on you fast.

6

Polar Pistachio

📍 Maksimirska 82, Zagreb Maksimir

Park-adjacent, so the queue is half runners and half dogs. Cones only, no cups, on principle.

• 📉 Tiered
• 💶Good price
• 🪑Top experience

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Flavours I have tested

• Pistachio 🍦Creamy
  Good, though a shade too sweet.
• Mint & chip 💧Refreshing 🧪Innovative
  Real mint leaf, pale grey-green, no toothpaste.
• Strawberry 💧Refreshing
  Clearly made from actual strawberries.

7

Frozen Fig

📍 Ulica Damira Tomljanovića 4, Zagreb Bundek

Lakeside kiosk with an unreasonably ambitious flavour list for something the size of a garden shed.

• 🍨 Per scoop
• 🪑Top experience
• 🌗Half-scoops
• 🦄Distinctive

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Flavours I have tested

• Fig & honey 🍦Creamy 🤔Interesting
  Jammy, salted, the best thing they make.
• Olive oil 🧪Innovative 🤔Interesting
  Strange for two spoons, then excellent.
• Sour cherry 💧Refreshing
  Properly sour, no sugar rescue.
• Black sesame 🧪Innovative 🤔Interesting
  Interesting rather than good.

8

Mliječni Put

📍 Aleja Matije Ljubeka 2, Zagreb Jarun

Open until midnight all summer, which covers a lot of sins. The milkshakes are the actual draw.

• 📉 Tiered
• 💶Good price

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Flavours I have tested

• Milky Way (house blend) 🍦Creamy 🤔Interesting
  Vanilla, caramel and malt. Very moreish.
• Banana
  Tastes of banana sweets, not banana.
• Chocolate orange 🍦Creamy
  Restrained on the orange, which is right.