This cult-favourite gelato brand is finally making its way from Down Under to our sunny shores. Gelato Messina, the wildly popular Sydney-based ice cream chain is set to open its first-ever Singapore outpost in late April 2025.
While no official announcement has been made, a hoarding has been spotted at the intersection between Club Street and Cross Street, and a representative of Gelato Messina has confirmed that the store is slated to open its doors this month. This new outlet is located next to Merci Marcel, and takes over Vietnamese joint Tre Café, which closed some time last year. There’s also a QR code on the hoarding which directs you to a mailing list link to get updated on when the branch opens.
If you’ve ever queued for a scoop at one of Gelato Messina’s 25 outlets in Australia, or its branch at Pottinger Street in Hong Kong, you’ll know that it doesn’t play around when it comes to dessert. Everything – from its ooey-gooey ice cream bases to all its chunky toppings, including chocolate and dulce de leche – is made from scratch. It’s even got its own farms supplying Jersey milk and hazelnuts exclusively to its stores.
The brand is also known for its staggeringly wide range of flavours in each store – 40 to be exact. Of the 40, 35 are traditional flavours like pistachio praline (our favourite of the lot, featuring fior di latte gelato, white chocolate and pistachio fudge, and pistachio praline), while five are rotating weekly specials. These are often weird, wacky, and wonderful scoops with inventive names like ‘Game of Cones’, ‘Jon Snow’, and the like. There’s so much heated debate about the best flavour at Messina’s, that the brand even releases an annual ranking of its ‘Greatest Hits’ in the past year, like this one from 2024:
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Here in Singapore, we can probably expect the same 40-flavour ice cream cabinet – and maybe, just maybe, some Singapore-exclusive flavours?
As of now, an official opening date, menu, and prices have yet to be released, so watch this space for updates. In the meantime, find out more about Gelato Messina here.
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