Twenty-five small producers of emmer have banded together to in this newly founded consortium to defend their hypertraditional local product. All of the consortium's farro is grown and milled locally, and they've just been granted a DOC for this traditional grain. Fruit flavors are good, but the rich chocolate, smoky, intense nut, and combination flavors are fantastic. The location is a bit out of the way, but this is one of the best gelaterie in Firenze. Surely all the people seated at the sidewalk tables or milling outside the Bar Anisare can't be local.
Most colors are pale, but the flavors are intense.
The largest selection is available on summer weekends, with a splendid assortment of fresh fruit flavors. Realmo Cavalieri and his sister Maria Teresa make Toscana's finest gelato, always fresh, light, and creamy, worth a pilgrimage for true fans of this delectable frozen treat. All flavors are created with natural seasonal ingredients, and colors are pale, with no artificial colorings added. The summer selection of around twenty flavors does justice to ripe local fruit, especially berries and melon. Only ten flavors are available in the winter, when gelato is decidedly less popular with Italians and the varieties of fruit are more limited.