After sampling The Dressing Room’s Croissant Beignets and Beecher’s Handmade Cheese, we stopped by the family-run Hellenika Cultured Creamery.
Three Greek-Australian siblings started the popular gelato shop with family recipes passed down through the generations. One of the two brothers, Peter, welcomed us. That’s Pete to the left.
If you order a Kensington Mango or Cantalope or Om Ali, whose ingredients include cinnamon, cardamon, coconut, raisins, and ginger, you can be sure you will get precisely that. Fresh fruit and local Washington ingredients, some from Pike Place Market, go into each recipe.
There’s not a trace of preservatives, dyes, or artificial flavors. We tasted the creamy Seattle Fog, a vanilla bean cultured gelato with the flavor of a tea latte. The culture process qualifies these gelatos as frozen yogurts.
Whatever you call them, they are delicious and have a soft-serve ice cream texture.
