Hot Dish Review

This is one of my favorite places on earth! I kid you not. When I travel to Germany, I look forward to eating real Italian gelato at this family-owned cafe’ almost as much as Omi’s “schmand kuchen” (more on that later).

Located on the main street in our tiny town of Solms, Eiscafe Capri makes authentic gelato with milk rather than cream for a lighter, less caloric frozen treat than ice cream.

It also seems to have less sugar. Gelato makers in the U.S. tend to make the mistake of Americanizing the traditional recipe, adding more sugar. I’ve often wondered if we can even duplicate gelato in the states given the difference in available ingredients.

On our first full day in Germany, the weather was beautiful….warm enough to wear flip-flops! I was practically giddy as we took a seat outside at the cafe’. She ordered an alcoholic beverage (what!) and I got my favorites….stracciatella (chocolate chip) and nuss (hazelnut) with whipped cream. And I mean real whipped cream. They don’t even put any sugar in it.

After that day the weather took a turn for the worse. I had to wear boots every day and only had the chance to visit the cafe’ once more before we took off, back to the U.S., where the climate is warm and the gelato is, sadly, not the real thang.