Gelato Messina to open second store in Victoria Park after WA success at Highgate parlour
Gelato Messina will open on Albany Highway in Victoria Park on Thursday with a launch party ice cream fans are sure to love.
It comes two years after the first Messina store opened in Highgate.
To celebrate, limited-edition Rotto buns flavour — cream bun gelato with whipped cream and raspberry purée — inspired by Rottnest Island's famed cream buns will be on offer.
It will be available exclusively at the Victoria Park store during launch week.
The new store will feature Messina's signature 40-flavour gelato cabinet, with 35 classic flavours and five rotating weekly specials, alongside a range of gelato cakes, house-made dulce de leche jars, and select Messina merchandise.
Owner and brand custodian Declan Lee said the team couldn't be happier with the Vic Park site, considering the suburb was where they first set sights on bringing Messina into WA.
'Vic Park was always where we wanted to open our first door, to be honest,' he said.
'We used to go over there and try and scope out locations, and it was probably our favourite location, but we couldn't find the right site, and then we found a really cool site in Highgate Mount Lawley, opened that, and that was fantastic.
'Then something came up in Vic Park, and we found the right site, so we are very excited that that's our second store.'
Mr Lee said Perth's response to Messina — founded in Darlinghurst in 2002 — had been exceptional, hence the new store in one of the city's hotspots.
'Perth is a really great city because it's so far away that if you do something there and you do it well, you get rewarded,' he said.
'I think people were kind of really excited for us to come so when we opened the first doors it was absolutely crazy and now we've kind of found our feet there and embedded ourselves with the locals.'
With more space to play in this store, Mr Lee is also excited to start rolling out more events, carts and pop-ups around WA with people urged to 'watch this space'.
Messina's team of gelato makers and pastry chefs create everything in-house, from baked brownie bits to coulis and caramels.
The gelateria even operates its own dairy farm in country Victoria, producing rich jersey milk just for the beloved gelato.
There are now 30 stores around the country.
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