this place will change your life and your belt sizei had been hearing tons of good things about this place and finally got the chance to stop by over the weekend. fortunately, maggie actually knows michael and kimberly, the owners, so she introduced me and holly to them. actual conversation:
maggie: hey guys, these are my friends liz and holly.
liz: hi! this gelato is awesome. i'm going to write about you guys on my blog.
michael: wait, what is your blog?
liz: get in mah belly.
michael: what!!! we have heard of you! kimberly, this is get in mah belly!
liz: what!!! really??? awesome!!! i love you guys. this is the best gelato ever!!!
(edited: ensuing 20 minute gelato love fest)
it's painful to have to choose just one (or two) (or three) (or four)michael is awesome and totally knows his gelato. i feel like i have some gelato street cred because i spent a summer in college studying abroad in florence. and by "studying abroad" i mean drinking coffee, partying, and eating gelato. i ate a shit ton of gelato. and this is the real thing.
michael spent years studying gelato (rumor has it he even went to ice cream school) in new york and italy and met stefano from milano, who is from what i understand a gelato miracle worker who taught michael everything he knows. sorry if i am messing up some details here... while i was trying to listen to the story i was also eating the gelato so my senses and powers of observation were totally out of whack.
your tour guides on your journey through awesome gelato landback to the gelato. it is perfect. soft, creamy, almost unbelievably rich. the flavors are amazing. i chose vietnamese coffee and coconut, and both flavors were wonderful. i also tried a few others (blackberry sorbetto, sweet cream with brownies, french caramel, hazelnut...) and each one was a revelation. it's like they took something delicious, and then made something even better out of it.
stop licking your computer screen, that's creepytrue story from kimberly: a guy came in last week and saw that they had vietnamese coffee. "whatever," he scoffed. "i am a connoisseur of vietnamese coffee. it can't be that good." then he tasted it. he ordered two pints immediately to take to dinner at a vietnamese friend's house that night.
do not, however, get too attached to the mind blowingly awesome flavors i am describing to you here, because the flavors are constantly changing. word on the street is that there was bacon gelato ("porkopolis") last week. michael is constantly experimenting and perfecting new flavors.
short stature is no obstacle to enjoying dojo gelatoas if all that were not enough, dojo has a blog. who can argue with a gelato blog? not this blogging gelato freak.
since i have written this super gushy love fest post about dojo, i am going to make a public request to michael: what about panna con amarene? it is my most absolute favorite gelato flavor in the whole world. if you guys could create it for me in cincinnati, i think i would shit myself and die of happiness. in that order. but even if you don't make it i will still love your gelato, i promise.
update: i just read the dojo blog and learned that dojo is actually already doing panna con amarene. i think i have died and gone to gelato heaven. i have literally been fantasizing about eating this gelato flavor again for over nine years now. thank you michael and kimberly!
we ran into steve and the other maggie after we had our gelato. "are you guys getting gelato?" i asked. "i don't think so, not really planning on it, blah blah blah," they said. i practically dragged them to dojo and left them in the capable hands of michael and kimberly. they were in gelato heaven. (note: i told maggie to "look excited" for this picture, but it is also very possible that she could have been having a gelato induced seizure of joy.)readers, i know i have been raving about places a lot lately but i am serious, dojo gelato is amazing. get your ass to dojo and eat this ice cream as soon as you possibly can. and then send your friends. and then go back. and then write about it on your respective blogs, or facebook pages, or prison cell walls, or whatever. this place is a treasure and we have support it. it's one of my absolute favorite new places in cincinnati in a very long time.
6 comments:
you know you've arrived when a google search for a place brings up your blog post before the venue's actual website. liz, you've arrived.
Do these folks have a connection (part owners) to Angelina's at Findlay? We have heard that Angelina's was about to branch out into gelato-land. So I wonder if this wonderful sounding new place is the same. Nonetheless, I go to Findlay every weekend and will definitely try dojo on Saturday. (We have been out of town the past 2 weekends.)
BTW, I have added a link to your blog from my own local (Cincy) food blog. Any chance you could return the favor?
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We've been asked a lot lately if we are a chain or have different locations. Dojo is independently owned and operated by my wife and me only at Findlay. We make all of our gelati ourselves, by hand, daily.
pama: you are up! thanks for sharing your blog, i totally didn't know about it.
michael: thank you for being awesome!
sidd and VO: holla! i don't have anything to say but i didn't want you guys to feel left out.
I went there and dropped mine on the ground, and they gave me a new one. Now that's service.
Jeni's is indeed the best ice cream I have ever tasted. My in-laws live in Columbus and we plan trips around when and how we can get to a Jeni's location.
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