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Crema ClubEst. 2019
−13.2 °C
The Crema Club counter in the late afternoon, cones in the case behind.

Gelateria — five rooms, one recipe book

Made cold,
made slowly.

Six flavours, churned each morning in a cold room you can see from the counter. Pistachio from Bronte, cocoa conched overnight, cream cultured for two days.

01

Pistachio Crunch

Bronte D.O.P. · roasted 14 minutes

Batch
BR-4417
Serve
−14.0 °C
Weight
92 g

Cais do Sodré, 17:40

Today at the counter

Six flavours. No more,
and rarely fewer.

We keep the list short so nothing sits. Choose one and the page follows — the notes, the numbers, and the cone you're building further down.

Pistachio Crunch

    Allergens
    nuts, dairy
    Batch
    BR-4417
    Served at
    −14 °C
    Tasting profile measured in-house, 0–100

    The cold room

    Everything here is
    measured twice.

    Two freezer banks, twenty-four probes, one number that matters: the size of the ice crystal. Below eleven microns it reads as cream. Above fourteen it reads as ice.

    The cold room at Cais do Sodré, seen through the service window.
    Bank A, 04:20. The night conch has six hours left to run.

    Nine hours of turning

    Low-shear conching under nitrogen, then a ninety-second drop to −34 °C. The structure locks before the fat has a chance to reorganise — which is the whole trick, and the only part we won't shorten.

    Freezer banks — 24 hour drift
    Bank A Bank B Ambient
    What sold this week7 days
    Right nowlive

    Build a cone

    Order it the way
    you'd say it out loud.

    Stack up to four scoops, choose what holds them, and set how cold and how airy you like it. The drawing on the right is your actual order.

    1  Scoops3 of 4

    Select a scoop, then pick what goes in it.

    2  What holds itholds 4

    Pressed in-house, 40 seconds at 187 °C.

    3  Serving temperature−14.0 °C
    −24−16−8

    Structured. Holds an edge on the spoon.

    4  Air28%
    28overrun
    5  Finishesnone
    Order CC-0000-000
    Your order--:--
      Energy0 kcal
      Weight0 g
      Total€0.00

      Nothing leaves this page — it's a demo counter.

      From four in the morning

      Thirteen hours,
      one scoop.

      Nothing about this is fast, and most of it is waiting. Here is where the day goes.

      Hands finishing a batch at the marble bench.
      Bench two. Portioning by weight, not by eye — 92 grams a scoop.
      04:00Intake

        Where to find us

        Five rooms,
        one temperature.

        Every room runs the same two banks and the same recipe book. Hover a marker for today's queue and hold temperature.

          Come by, or send it ahead

          Reserve a cone.

          Pre-orders open ninety minutes before service. Tell us when you'll arrive and it will be packed cold and waiting.

          The pass at Cais do Sodré, cones ready for service.
          Cais do Sodré. Pre-orders are packed at the far end of the pass.

          This is a demonstration build. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, stored, or tracked.