Giapo – Extraordinary Icecreams

Located just a short stroll from Rydges Auckland is Giapo. Icecream as you’ve likely never seen or tasted!

Giapo Ice Cream began with Giapo Grazioli and his wife Annarosa taking Italian gelato tradition and giving it a firm, unconventional twist. That creativity and desire to alight for new territory has been at the heart of this project.  Throughout the past decade or so, as Giapo has continued to thrive, disrupt and excite, while growing into one of the most innovative ice cream kitchens in the world.

Taking Auckland by storm

The success Giapo enjoys both on the international scene and in its home country of New Zealand, is poured right back into the business. The tight-knit Giapo team foster, and indeed feed off, this cycle of creativity. The couple at the helm of Giapo, whose business cards openly state their occupation as “Wannabe Artists,” approach ice cream as an art form.

“I saw that ice cream had the potential to be more expressive and gastronomical than it had been,” explains Giapo, “It’s the most popular dessert food in the world and it didn’t seem right that it always had to look the same in cones and cups or on sticks.” With the help of Annarosa, and by building a small, talented team with a strong collective spirit, Giapo is steadily managing to turn ice cream into something new. The innovation that the Giapo team is bringing to the world, is not just flavour specific, but multidimensional with a lot of dedication and a savvy flair for things like customer experience, culinary, scientific and technological, it is about writing what they like to call a “New language for ice cream.”