For my peeps and homeboys in Sydney, it's time again for the annual Sydney festival. One of the highlights of the festival for a gelato-obsessed individual, such as myself, is 'Il Carnivale di Gelato Messina'. This pop up stall is one of the largest and most frequented attractions that is featuring in Hyde Park over the next few weeks.
There's so much to see in Sydney lately. We started the day by seeing the Exxopolis inflatable maze by the Architects of Air (Alan Parkinson). It's one of the coolest things I've ever experienced! There were so many pretty colours and it was such a novelty being inside an inflatable room. It got pretty hot so we cooled off with some artisan icy poles by Liana Raine. My Blueberry Mint icy pole really hit the spot.
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| Cooling off with Liana Raine icy poles (L to R: David having a Watermelon Lemonade, Jess having a Blueberry Mint and Aniket having a Strawberry Cream) |
For those not in the know, Gelato Messina is somewhat of an institution in Sydney. It is THE place to go for a good gelato. A friend and I tend to judge a good weekend based on the number of gelati we had at Messina. And consequently, how many gym classes we need to do that week to make up for that number.
In fact, I'm such a fan of Messina that I'm taking a Gelato Appreciation class in October! Only 272 days to go...
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| Me and my beloved Messina. |
Our next stop was the Messina Darlinghurst shop, where I was well behaved, only ordering one scoop of their Honey Pot special. Ordering just the one scoop because I had my heart set on some serious gluttony at the Sydney Festival. I got loads of crunchy honey-comb, which was mixed into a rich milk chocolate, honey and coconut gelato. Divine!
When I finally reached Hyde Park and assembled a group of friends, we went straight to the Messina tent and ordered the lot, well almost!
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| Perhaps we went a little Messina crazy?! |
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| The Messinawiener |
The Messinawiener resembled a Dagwood Dog and was made from a maple syrup gelato, fried in a pancake batter and dipped in a superb plum sauce. I would love to have seen Messina's take on the great Aussie Chiko Roll - perhaps next time?!
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| Left: 'So Wrong It's Right' Sideshow Sundae. Right: Yeeah Dawg |
Next was the Yeeah Dawg! - a hot dog (or as my better half would say, hawdawg) made from a sweet finger bun with a milk chocolate gelato 'sausage' with passionfruit 'mustard', raspberry 'ketchup', buttercream 'mayo' and coconut 'onions'.
The 'So Wrong It's Right' sundae was probably my favourite, in terms of flavour. This Sideshow Sundae was made from cheesecake gelato with potato chips, duck fat caramel and bacon marshmallow. I couldn't really taste the bacon flavour but the duck fat caramel was awesome. I imagine Elvis would have liked this one too and then he would have curled his lip a few times, saying 'Uh huh'.
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| The Gelatoffee Apple |
The Gelatoffee Apple, which was a green apple sorbet coated in milk chocolate and then glazed in a red candy apple finish, which apparently tasted like redskin lollies! Yum!
The gorgeous Alira also approves!
So if you're in Sydney, get yourself to Hyde Park before the Festival ends on the 27th of January. There's even a jumping castle (in the shape of Stone Henge!) for you to burn off all the gelati goodness. We all had so much fun!
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