Today's short post is written by Cathy. It's just too hot to think much about food today. The mmm-yoyo!!! men, Kirk and Ed (from Yuma) will write about food when they are ready.
Another hot and humid day in San Diego and not much can keep you cool or relaxed. Unless, maybe you can find gelato! ('gelato' means 'frozen' in Italian)
EscoGelato has been in this small storefront for about three years now, serving up coffee, soup, salad, panini and gelato (as well as a few sorbet flavors), seven days a week. The husband and wife owners are proud to use the highest quality, locally sourced ingredients. This is the view if you are walking South from Grand Avenue, where many nice restaurants are located. You'll probably notice the ice cream cone logo before you notice any signage. Here is a link to cc's 2013 post, which shows a front view of the store.That is the entire menu. Because we had finished lunch elsewhere, we were only here 'for dessert'. I will write a post about the panini, soup and salads later.
What is gelato? Milk, cream and sugar, along with some fruits and/or nuts and/or other ingredients for flavors. Placed into a special machine which cooks, slow churns and then chills. The product is extruded from the machine into a pan and flash frozen. Gelato has less fat than regular ice cream, but it is higher in density than ice cream, so it's very creamy. All the flavors are made fresh daily at EscoGelato.The final product looks like this. Many traditional and some interesting, imaginative flavors. As I mentioned: locally sourced, highest quality, made fresh daily.Small ($3.50). Brown Butter Pecan gelato and Apricot Goat Cheese gelato. We asked for a sample first and each of these were refreshing. You can taste each flavor, and what great flavors these were! The buttery creamy gelato, crunchy pecans...fresh apricots and, yes, goat cheese, were wonderfully complimentary and great tasting.Salted caramel gelato used for an affogato ($4.75) ( Affogato is Italian for 'drowned'). Because I know the coffee here comes from locally owned Zumbar and I had a craving for a good cup of coffee, the shot of espresso with this salted caramel gelato was a perfect combination of flavors. It looks like a small amount of coffee, but because it is so strong, using it sparingly (more like a sauce) was just the perfect amount of espresso with this rather large amount of gelato.
I hope everyone is staying cool!
EscoGelato 122 S. Kalmia Escondido 92025 (between West Grand and 2nd Ave) (760) 745-6500 Website Open Mon-Fri 8-9, Sat-Sun 10-9
Their small is quite large and I liked that you can have two flavors in a small. Some places don't let you do that. I enjoyed their blueberry cheesecake and banana guava.
Posted by: caninecologne | Tuesday, 08 September 2015 at 08:54 PM
Oh, I love banana flavored any things, cc! Every flavor at EscoGelato is just great. It's so nice to find locally owned places with quality products.
Posted by: Cathy | Wednesday, 09 September 2015 at 03:46 AM
I am Ning Wei Wang, I love cakes and gelatoes but I never taste them...I used to visit San Deigo and tried some ice cream. well,I enjoy your articles and I want to write something about the chinese snacks.Yummy,yummy, Ning
Posted by: Ning Wei Wang | Wednesday, 09 September 2015 at 05:54 AM
You are wise. That does look like a good way to stay cool. Do you prefer gelato to ice cream?
Posted by: Soo H | Wednesday, 09 September 2015 at 08:07 AM
Thanks, Ning. You could write a lot better about Chinese snacks than I could! There is such a variety in China, compared to here.
You are so nice, Soo. The intense, concentrated flavor of gelato is probably why I prefer it more...just as I prefer a small piece of dark chocolate, good shot of espresso or small glass of red wine; a lot of flavor in a small serving.
Posted by: Cathy | Thursday, 10 September 2015 at 05:43 AM
I am a Ning Wei Wang.I love dark chocolate and gelato, too.It is very exciting to taste some gelato and cookies together.Many chinese put some fish in the ice cream and gelato.We always use the meat and vegetable to cook different kinds of snacks. You can give me your E-mail address, I'd like to share some chinese food stories with you,yummy, yummy, Ning
Posted by: Ning Wei Wang | Thursday, 10 September 2015 at 07:17 AM
Great looking stuff, and a nice explanation of gelato.
Posted by: Ed (from Yuma) | Friday, 11 September 2015 at 03:36 PM
Thanks, Ed. It's really nice here.
Posted by: Cathy | Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 04:36 AM