Dolce Spazio Dessert Cafe

Awesome place! All their flavors are tempting but I happened to have amaretto almond and its yummy. Also tried their latte with whipped cream and it was also remarkably good

Anyone that can bake a Banana cake with cream cheese icing — I never ever eat, or even ever see in the case, or menu make it delicious, not to sweet, and moist — gets a 5 star. I wanted to get up and do a Nae Nae cake dance. Alright only the Nae Nae till it gets to the Stanky leg part. When I eat that cake… OOO watch me OOO watch me, OOOO OOO OOO it’s good.

Don’t come here late at night 10 o’clock, everything is hard, nothing is fresh and workers who look like high school students are in a hurry to get out of there. No customer service at all!

Been coming here since high school, and their strawberries and cream gelato is still the best I’ve ever had. SO MUCH REAL FRUIT flavor and soft and creamy. Sad thing is if you buy a quart/​pint, you don’t get the wafer fan anymore. Those wafers are SO good! Mint chocolate chip reminded me of mouthwash and wasn’t anything too mind blowing. Staff is efficient and friendly!

I was really excited to try out this place, but I wasn’t satisfied. They’re a little too sweet, apricot bars were alright. I’m sure their gelato is good, but unfortunately I don’t eat ice crem. The helper was rude and seemed like she wanted me to do everything for her. Retail doesn’t work that way, if you’re having a bad day you need to try your best on providing the best customer service.

I can’t believe I’ve never been here!
I love. Like I mean LOVE icecream and gelato and for some reason never thought to come here. You learn everyday what happens when you don’t use Unilocal as your life guide!
After a few hours at the Los Gatos Bar and Grill I really wanted some dessert and as we were walking back to our car I noticed this place.
The shop is kinda cute and old school but there is nothing cute about the gelato!
The almond gelato actually tasted like almonds and same with the strawberries and cream!
The staff are super friendly and the servings are generous. I see a lot of gelatoing in my future!

Their Oreo gelato was delicious and rich! Just wish customer service was a bit more friendly. No interaction between people working there and customers. Not even a thank you, or have a nice day.

It’s been a long time since I had been to Dolce Spazio.
I have good memories of going what seemed to be every other weekend in the summer in the mid-1980’s to the location on Main Street. Time moves on… and new gelato and ice cream places have opened.
I got a cinnamon with chocolate chips. The flavor was a bit mild, but very good. Not quite up to Bi-Rite’s cinnamon. Very pricey.

A bit pricey, but oh so delicious on a hot spring day after a hike along the Los Gatos Creek Trail! Service is friendly, if a bit slow, but that’s part of the charm. The girls behind the counter work hard at scooping! And they are really nice about letting you try all of the samples you want.
I went with a 2-​scoop medium sized cup with Menta Chip and Oreogasmic, and both were delicious. Originally, I was trying to restrict myself to a single scoop small cup, but that wasn’t going to happen after I tried samples of these two! My favorite part of visiting Dolce Spazio is the fact that they give you a little wafer wedge cracker with your ice cream. It’s perfect for scooping up the last drips of melty ice cream in your cup.
I’ve been coming here since high school, and I’m sure I’ll be returning in the future for a long time.

Stopped here by Unilocal recommendations on our way to San Francisco. A great place for gelato and espresso. My husband had a double espresso and I had the affogato (espresso, vanilla gelato, and whipped cream). Heaven!!! When I saw them take out of the fridge a bowl of FRESHLY whipped cream: I knew this place was perfect, and it sure was.

Since I can remember this place has been a treat. My mom and I used to go here when I was little and as I got older this was a place my friends and I would frequent. The times have changed but my inkling for gelato here has not. I went with my sister and found icing on the cake banana cake. Already I am excited. I decided on Amaretto Almond in a solo cup. It was a perfect way to end a fun night and people watch along «the strip.» I need to come back here more often. BTW– since when do you do weddings? THAT is awesome!

Dolce is a pretty great downtown Los Gatos fixture. Cute is the word that immediately jumps out at me.
The gelato is a bit rich for my blood since I make nearly minimum wage at one of their neighboring stores, so I don’t get it regularly, but it’s a very nice occasional treat.
The drinks are great though! Prices are about on par, if not a bit cheaper than, your local Starbucks. $ 2.25 gets you a large iced coffee (20 oz I think?) that is strong without being over-​roasted like Starbucks.
The staff is super friendly, knowledgeable, and accomodating. «Did you want room for cream?» «Is this enough ice or did you want a little less?» etc.
A visit to Dolce is always a nice little pick-​me-​up for the day!

Perhaps it’s been a while since I’ve been back here to Dolce Spazio but when does a small gelato cost over $ 5? Am I in San Francisco? But I’ll gladly pay for good gelato and the strawberries and crème flavor that I got was exactly what I wanted. Was it the best gelato that I’ve ever had? Most definitely not but they had a decent selection and at 7pm on a Saturday night, they had plenty of people eating and congregating inside and outside of their shop. Always a good sign for any people walking by on whether they want to stop in.
Maybe it was me but I swear that there is some weird odor when I walked in there. like one of those bathroom locker room odors. It seems like their backdoor being open wasn’t circulating that well.
If I’m ever back in the area, then I’ll stop by.

Came here after dinner because we all wanted some sort of dessert. The restaurant we went to only had one item on the dessert menu… and it didn’t sound appealing.
I got the oreogasmic gelato (in a cup). Boyfriend got strawberries and cream gelato (in a cup). Our friend got capuccino chip gelato (waffle cone). The gelato itself was delicious! Had lots of oreo crumbs within the gelato. With every scoop! Plus plus plus!!!
A bit overpriced. For one scoop/​small cup, it was $ 4.55. The next size up was $ 5.25. I saw that they have pint and quart sizes to take home. They have cakes and cake pops too. Banana cake, carrot cake, chocolate fudge cake, lemon cake, etc.
I wanted to like this place for their service too but the male employee that was working was too busy flirting with the customers, knowing that there was a long line behind those girls. When he got to us, he had the nerve to say, «Thank you so much for waiting.» Ummm. yeah, you’re welcome for allowing us to let you finish your flirting??? The wait wouldn’t have been so long if you weren’t busy flirting.
Random fact: if you’re looking for the restroom, it’s outside to the right of the gelato shop (when you are facing the shop).

Some seriously amazing gelato in the heart of Los Gatos. The flavors were creamy, smooth, and decadent. Definitely hits the spot of you have a sweet tooth. Sorbets are there if you need something more on the refreshing side.

Love the strawberry champagne, and seasonal sorbets.

This gelato is as good as the gelato I’ve had in Italy. It’s very creamy and dense, yet sticky (hard to explain, but you’ll know what I mean as soon as you start eating it). I had the oreogasmic and menta chip, and they were both fantastic! The gelato was served with a little triangle wafer cookie and it was a good, too!

Gelato here is the best. It depends on which flavor is your favorite but you won’t be disappointed.
My favorite is Chocolate Liquor. I also enjoy Cappuccino Chip, Salted Caramel.

I stopped in prior to my hair appt in Los Gatos and it was a refreshing moment of my day.
I had the salted caramel and it was a wonderfully tasty, creamy experience. Only had one scoop as I had dinner plans and I was sneaking this little treat in the middle of my day!
I definitely will be going back, very smooth and creamy, good quality, good value for your dollar and friendly staff, and hopefully will have FAR more to say on my next visit!

Definitely got one of the biggest cups of gelato I have ever eaten here. They’ll fill them with as many flavors as your heart desires, but my personal preference is to stick to two or less. Their gelato happens to be more on the sticky side than other gelatos I have had but it was still tasty none the less.

Every time that I am in Los Gatos, I make an effort to come here regardless of the weather!
The gelato here is mouth-​gasmic! It’s creamy and smooth. Whatever flavor you get, you won’t be disappointed. The cups may look small but they are very generous with their portion. Besides gelato, they do have other desserts, cookies and cakes but I have yet to try them.
This is a cute place to go on a small mini date. Either sit inside of the café if there’s room or walk around downtown sharing gelato :)

As mentioned many times before — the Oerogasm flavor was very yummy. We also got the banana fosters flavor. We tried some other flavors and i didn’t love the chocolate — not as creamy as i like.
Quality — Very good
Service — Top Notch — friendly and professional
Price — definitely fair
Seating area — perfect little tables for eating there
Selection — Just ok
Parking — Just ok
Would I come back — most definitely!

–Wide variety of gelatos.
–For vegans, they have fruit smoothies.
–Very nice seating outdoors and behind.
–Nice to get a smoothie and walk on the Los Gatos downtown in the evening after sunset.

I got the jolly rancher smoothie and it was literally the most amazing smoothie I’ve ever tasted! It’s the perfect blend of sweet and sour. And of course, it’s light green — my favorite color!
My friends ordered the berry blitz smoothie and they said it was pretty satisfying too.
Also, we came around 6PM, which was really packed. However, they were really quick with our orders. Overall, I highly recommend this place :) Will come back soon!

Cute place to go to when you’re walking in downtown! Their white pistachio and the oreogasmic were the two best ones in my opinion. The gelato texture is really sticky and gooey… if that makes sense. The cups look small, but the small size was way more than enough for all of us, so think twice before you get something you can’t finish. The selection of flavors isn’t so big, but they do also have smoothie/​coffee drinks as well! The inside has quite a few seats, but if you walk out the backdoor, there is a charming little area with seats and tables to enjoy your ice cream outside.

This place has legit gelato, gooey and ooey, and a small gelato is more than enough for me! I could barely put a dent in it! It was really sticky, and different than all other gelatos I’ve ever had. Had a coffee with bits of toffee in it, and it was absolutely divine! They have cute seating outside which we enjoyed our gelato at. Loved it, and will be back!

The gelato here is absolutely delicious! They many flavors from nutella, white pistachio, espresso chip, amaretto almond, to oreogasmic, and even some sorbet flavors. I sampled a bunch of their flavors until I could finally decide on what I wanted to get.
I got the smallest size, uno ($ 4.35) with ½ espresso chip, ½ amaretto almond. I loved how the almond taste was very prominent and the texture was nice and smooth. I also really liked the chocolate bits in the espresso. I tried the friend’s oreogasmic, but actually found it too cloying sweet. I preferred my flavors much more. Overall, I thought the gelato was delicious, but slightly on the expensive side because I’ve had good quality gelato that was not as pricey. Still worth a stop though!

I ordered the ‘Due’ size with three flavors: oreogasmic, oreo joe, and the special new flavor was mocha, fudge and brownie bits. When I said the word ‘due’ she corrected me because I didn’t pronounce it the italian way. If you want your customers to pronounce it correctly, I suggest they phonetically break down the word.
Besides that, I enjoyed the gelato and will certainly come back to try other flavors. The flavors I ordered seem to be pretty simple, but I thought it was super tasty and creamy.

Bottom line at the top: bleh. Very gummy/​synthetic tasting gelato. The biscuit triangle is amazing though.
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Came here today and was not impressed. Sampled the oreogasmic, salted caramel, and mint. They were all terrible but it felt too awkward just leaving so I had a small oreogasmic. Very gummy (in a bad way). Amour is definitely the best and only dessert you should be having in this area.

After dinner nearby, I was hankering for one hell of a dessert. And I found it…
COFFEE CASHEW CRUNCH. The king of ALL coffee-​esque gelato flavors. Yes, it’s better than the espresso and mocha variants. The coffee flavor blissfully reminded me of tiramisu! And the texture was oh so creamy. It wasn’t sickeningly sweet and the cashews and chocolate shavings were perfectly complimentary.
I might have also picked up a chocolate cake slice. Teehee. Couldn’t help myself. The cake was crumbly and very dense, so it’s definitely something very indulgent and rich. The slices are flippin’ huge so bring a date to share this chocoholic baby with.
The place is on the smaller side so we had to take our desserts to-​go. But if you’re in the area and need to satiate your sweet tooth, don’t you dare skip this place!

Hands down the best!
I like to oder ½ Chocolate Liqueur and ½ Amaretto, Hazelnut, or Salted Caramel.

Dolce Spazio has been a Los Gatos institution since 1980, longer than I’ve been alive. I can’t fathom why it took so long for me to visit, but I’m glad that I finally did.
My quest to find the best gelato in the south Bay Area led me to this spot not too far off the highway. I was a little surprised at the availability of street parking, although I should’ve expected it on a weekday afternoon. Instead, I actually bypassed a nice pair of parking spaces right in front of the store and ended up making four right turns to get back.
While Dolce Spazio has espresso and other drinks, blended beverages that sometimes include gelato, and even baked goods and cakes, most people go straight for the gelato. They always offer twelve gelato flavors, with eight regular flavors (chocolate liqueur, amaretto almond, vanilla bean, cappuccino chip, oreogasmic, menta chip, espresso, and strawberries & cream). Today’s four rotating flavors were Nutella, H-​9, strawberry champagne sorbetto, and zabajone.
I don’t see why you wouldn’t get a Tre ($ 5.75) as I did. It’s definitely the best value among the non-​bulk sizes. Although it was a mere 6 oz, I was pretty happy with my portion by the end. The guy claimed that he could fit all 12 flavors into the cup, and I was really tempted to watch him try, but I ended up sticking to a safe number of 4 flavors.
Among the flavors I had, Oreogasmic lived up to the billing. It’s basically their version of cookies ‘n cream. Zabajone («Italian eggnog») was also a great flavor, with much less of a punch than standard eggnog. The espresso was nice and shied away from being noticeably bitter. The amaretto almond was just a bit subtle for me, and it’s the least likely repeat. Also, I managed to snag a sample of strawberry champagne sorbetto, and it definitely had that alcoholic quality.
There were a couple of notable weaknesses. First, there was only one sorbetto in the rotation. I think a strong gelateria can afford to present more than that. They do have 9 sorbetto flavors listed on their web site. Second, and more relevant, is the texture. I was very happy with how creamy all of my flavors were, but they were very thick and therefore quite tough to enjoy with the gelato spoon. This has no impact on the mouth feel, but it forces you to take longer to get gelato on your spoon (I had to make the «rolling up spaghetti with a fork» motion), and it makes you eat bigger spoonfuls (almost the size of regular ice cream spoons, frankly). For these reasons, the gelato that I enjoyed here is not the best that I’ve ever had.
Regardless of those issues, I believe that this has been the best gelateria in the area all along. It is definitely the best today unless that one new place in Palo Alto is even more impressive. I’m definitely looking forward to coming back here and trying some other flavors, especially their hazelnut and perhaps another sorbetto.

First, their Italian eggnog gelato just might be best damn frozen treat out there next to ice cream, shaved ice, other gelato, popsicles… actually, you know what? They’re all good. There’s no need to draw comparisons. We’re all friends here.
Second, the cups look smaller than than they actually are on top of the gelato case, but trust me, those bad boys hold a whole heckuva lot of gelato and the medium size («due») is the perfect amount to give yourself one heckuva belly ache, so I’d suggest going with a small («uno’), which is plenty for one person… though it will take a certain amount of self control to go in this direction.
Third, I know this place is doing the whole Italian name and gelato thing but I’m super over seeing sizes listed as things other than small, medium, large, and so on. If you have 3 sizes of something and someone wants the middle size, lets all agree to call it a medium. Not a ‘grande’, not a ‘love it’, not a ‘due’, just a GD medium. The rest of your menu is in English, let’s not kid ourselves. It’s easier for everyone and my bad for not having learned Italian and refusing to say the word ‘due’ (pronounced ‘DOO-​eh’, by the way) when I want the medium size… which I 100% would not have pronounced the correct way but that’s besides the point and I’d like to just take a second to dedicate an exaggerated eye-​roll to both my roommate and the scoop girl who insisted on its correct pronunciation and in my roommate’s case, an unwelcome degree of mocking. jag.
Fourth, well… my fourth point is really the same as my first but I think it’s okay to mention twice since it’s the most important. They don’t have a ton of choices, but it was January and my choice of gelato was the tits so I can only assume the rest are probably pretty legit as well. Just some damn fine gelato.
Fifth, they have smoothies and coffee drinks, too. I got a salted caramel mocha which was as girly as it sounds besides that it came in a giant 20oz beer stein… topped with a heart latte art… though the barista dude was suspiciously quick to deny that he did it on purpose. I tried to make a flirtatious, ‘Suuuuuuuurrre it was.’ then almost immediately rethought it because hindsight is ²⁰⁄₂₀ and there’s a pretty good chance the kid was not over 18. So keep your creepy jokes to yourself, would be weathered advice.
On another similarly related and perhaps ill-​timed note, this business was voted ‘2014’s Youth Friendly Business’ in some publication. I don’t really know… I didn’t read the fine print. Go there and read it for yourself if you’re so interested, creep. Plus, ya know, that gelato was pretty darn good so you can try that, too.

I’ve unlocked Pandora’s box with the discovery of this place. To have a delicious gelato place so close to work is just asking for a sugar binge. I asked for a small of their mint chocolate chip gelato. Initially I thought it was a bit pricey for a small cup, but I was surprised at how much they stuffed into that tiny thing. It turned out to be quite filling, and I was in danger of being on a sugar overload so early in the morning! Totally worth it though. The waffle that came with the gelato was also complimented the gelato very well. I can’t wait to try other flavors!
I also got a chance to try their Americano, which tasted a bit watered down tbh. If you’re coming here, stick to the gelato.