Handmade by Ilaria & James, in small batches, using our own recipes. No artificial anything. You'll taste the difference.
A note from the makers
We aren't interested in the ordinary. We craft the extraordinary.
A Dubai born experimental gelato concept that aims to create extraordinary culinary experiences. Each product is handmade by us — Ilaria & James — in small batches.
We use only the finest quality ingredients. You will taste the difference.
No artificial flavorsNo colorantsNo premixesNo chemicals
Signature Bonbons
Italian gelato meets Arabic fusion. Our original invention, coated in Belgian milk chocolate.
Explore the bonbon
Flavor Lab
Experimental drops. Small batches. Limited stock.
See what's new
Protein Gelato
Buffalo whey. 26–29g protein per tub. Order direct.
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About Us
Meet Ilaria & James. The how, the why, the obsession.
Get to know us
Flavors that'll excite.
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Frequently asked
The questions.
What's the difference between gelato and ice cream?
Gelato has less air, less fat, and more flavor. It's denser. Our gelato is all about intense flavors — we don't believe in masking ingredients with sugar, so you taste the actual ingredient, not just sweetness.
Where do you deliver in Dubai?
We deliver to most of Dubai. We don't reach Karama, Deira, or Sharjah yet — but we're about to expand to Al Raha in Abu Dhabi.
What's the minimum order?
Aggregator orders (Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem, Noon, Keeta, Smiles) have no minimum. Protein gelato direct orders: 5 pots minimum. Bulk orders: 5 tubs of 500ml minimum.
Do you do weddings or corporate events?
Yes — we cater weddings, corporate events, private parties, and brand activations. Custom flavors, branded packaging, and delivery to the venue. Get in touch here →
Are you halal certified?
Our protein gelato is halal certified. The full menu is being phased into certification.
Do you have vegan options?
Yes — multiple vegan flavors including I Need Chocolate Now, So You Think You Know Pistachio, Mango Tango, Pure Passion, and Italian Summer sorbetto.
How much protein is in the protein gelato?
Between 25 and 29 grams per 150g serving, depending on the flavor. Built on Buffalo Whey and liquid egg whites for a complete amino acid profile (PDCAAS 1.0). Read the full breakdown →
How long does the gelato keep?
Stores up to 3 months in the freezer. Once thawed, do not refreeze. Best consumed immediately.
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Made for the dedicated
High Protein Gelato.
Real gelato that fits your macros. Made fresh in small batches. No fake stuff.
There's a difference between low-calorie chemical foam and a real, dense, high-protein gelato built on the same principles as your post-workout shake — just engineered to taste like dessert.
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What's actually in it.
Real dairy, real fats, real sugar, and the same gold-standard proteins you'd find in a high-end supplement.
Buffalo Whey.Denser amino acid profile than standard whey. The same protein elite athletes use for recovery — just delivered in a tub instead of a shaker.
Liquid Egg Whites.Perfect PDCAAS score of 1.0 — the gold standard for human absorption. Your body uses every gram instead of passing it as waste.
Real Dairy Fats.Heavy cream and tahini. Fuel for hormone production, joint lubrication, and the rich mouthfeel that makes premium gelato taste like premium gelato.
Functional Sugars.Sucrose, dextrose, trehalose. They build the actual physical structure of the gelato — and they fuel the muscle. No erythritol, no maltitol, no chemical sweeteners.
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The science, plain.
Eating sugar on an empty stomach causes a sharp blood-sugar spike. Eating the same amount of sugar inside a heavy matrix of fats and proteins produces a much slower, flatter curve.
Because this gelato is fortified with dairy fat and high-quality whey, the sugar absorbs slowly. A 90-calorie chemical "diet" ice cream loaded with maltitol or allulose will hit you harder than this will.
Fats and proteins drastically slow gastric emptying — the speed at which your stomach releases food to be absorbed. The richer the base, the smoother the curve.
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Made for the gym crowd.
If you train hard, this isn't a cheat meal. It's recovery food in a different format.
Post-workout spike, on purpose.Dextrose has a glycemic index of 100. Post-training, depleted muscles are primed to absorb everything — and that insulin spike is the biological shuttle that drives amino acids straight into torn muscle tissue.
No bloat. No bubble gut.Sugar alcohols (erythritol, maltitol, allulose) sit in the gut, ferment, and cause inflammation and water retention. Real ingredients digest cleanly.
Calories that build.You can't grow on 90-calorie foams. This is real fuel — the kind that powers heavy sessions, recovery, and the hormones that actually drive results.
Flavor Creations · Experimental
Flavor Lab
We are always on the hunt for unique flavor combinations, and creating the best gelato experience. Each of our flavors have been meticulously engineered to deliver the perfect flavor and texture each time.
The flavor library.
— flavors
The flavor archive.
— retired flavors
Flavors we've retired (for now). Sometimes they come back as a guest drop — keep an eye out.
Direct delivery
5 flavors or more? We bring them ourselves.
Order 5+ flavors via WhatsApp and we'll personally deliver. No third-party apps, no markup, no extra fees. Just us and the gelato.
Italian gelato meets Arabic fusion, hand-coated in Belgian milk chocolate, served frozen. The kind of thing your guests remember and talk about.
For events, we offer Bella Tahini Bonbons only — gelato & protein gelato live elsewhere.
Weddings
Your big day.
Custom ring boxes, branded sleeves, served frozen at the table.
Corporate
Client gifts.
Branded 4-piece boxes for launches, holidays, and thank-yous.
Private parties
House occasions.
Birthdays, milestones, intimate dinners — we deliver in time.
Brand activations
Pop-up moments.
Live serving stations, custom packaging, brand-aligned flavors.
Event inquiry
Tell us about your moment.
We'll get back to you within 24 hours.
B2B & Wholesale
For the professionals.
Stock our gelato. Co-create a custom flavor. Put your brand on a box of bonbons. We work with serious operators who care about quality.
Gyms
Protein, stocked.
Stock our protein gelato in your freezer, or supply to gym bars. Built for serious operators.
Cafés & restaurants
Custom flavors.
Minimum 3.5 litre batches — our signature flavors or co-create one with us.
Cafés
Plated bonbons.
Bonbons served on our custom Bella plates — turn-key dessert moment for your menu.
Partnership inquiry
Let's talk shop.
We'll get back to you within 24 hours.
The flavors
Four ways to fall in love.
The original
The Original
Where it all began.
Italian gelato meets Arabic fusion. Syrian tahini and rahash gelato with mixed-in flakes of premium Belgian milk chocolate and chunks of rahash. All coated in our secret Belgian milk chocolate blend.
4-piece signature box80 AED
Vegetarian · Contains nuts · Contains dairy
UAE edition
Karak
Saffron-laced Emirati ritual.
Our signature Karak and tahini gelato, with a digestive cookie crunch layer, coated in saffron-infused white chocolate.
4-piece signature box90 AED
Vegetarian · Contains nuts · Contains dairy
Sweet & salty
Salted Caramel & Popcorn
Movie night, frozen.
Salted caramel gelato with caramel popcorn folded through and a Belgian milk-chocolate shell, finished with Maldon sea-salt flakes.
4-piece signature box90 AED
Vegetarian · Contains dairy & nuts
Piedmont
Hazelnut
Piemonte at the center.
Italian gelato meets Arabic fusion. Hazelnut and Syrian tahini gelato with a hidden center of whole Piedmont hazelnuts. All coated in our secret Belgian milk chocolate blend and studded with crushed hazelnuts.
4-piece signature box90 AED
Vegetarian · Contains nuts · Contains dairy
The story
A moment in a bonbon.
You know, sometimes you experience a moment that you keep thinking back to. A smile from a stranger. The sunrise peaking over the edge of a rocky mountain. The smell of summer flowers in bloom.
The taste of Bella Tahini.
Tahini
Sourced from Syria
Chocolate
Belgian, secret blend
Made
Daily, by hand, Dubai
The boxes
Two ways to send a Bella.
Whether it's for the table or the moment, we've got the right vessel.
Most popular
4-piece signature
Our classic gift box. Mix flavors or keep it pure. Available on every delivery app.
Starting from 80AED
For occasions
The ring box
Single jewel, presented like a proposal. Perfect for events and parties. Contact us direct.
On request
Our story
Crafters of the extraordinary.
A Dubai-born experimental gelato concept, hand-made by two life enthusiasts who refused to settle for ordinary.
Why we exist
We aren't interested in the ordinary.
We are life enthusiasts. We love experiencing things — delicious food, exciting adventures, traveling, animals. You name it.
Which brings us to our love and excitement for gelato. Not ice cream. Gelato.
Much to our surprise, gelato in Dubai is at best, underwhelming. We've tested many, many spots. None got us excited or longing to eat it again.
So we made our own. Using our life experience, the insights of hundreds of testers and friends, and a stubborn refusal to compromise.
Each product is hand-made by us in small batches, using our own recipes. No artificial flavors, colorants, premixes or chemical additives. Just the finest ingredients we can find. You'll taste the difference.
Meet the team
Ilaria
Ilaria The Italian mastermind.
Born and raised in the north of Italy, Ilaria was raised on gelato. As a standard sweet treat for Italians, she has — like all Italians — a very, very strong opinion on how it should be.
With her culinary expertise and super fine-tuned taste pallet, she's the mastermind behind every flavor profile in our collection.
Her taste leans savory. When she does go sweet, it's fruity, refreshing, acidic. Or chocolate. Always allowed.
Meet the team
James
James The food lover.
Born in the Netherlands, raised all over the world. James is, first and foremost, a food lover. His main incentive to travel is to try new flavors wherever he goes.
With an adventurous taste pallet and fewer cultural restrictions (unlike Ilaria), he dares to try flavor combinations that might otherwise be questionable. Sometimes they shouldn't work. They do.
The sweet tooth behind the operation, James is also our chocolatier, gelato chef, and the branding wizard behind every box you've ever held. Pretty cool yeah?
How we do it
The craft.
Gelato isn't ice cream. It's denser, served warmer, with less air and less fat. Done right, the flavor hits harder and lasts longer.
We refuse shortcuts. Every batch is hand-made. Every ingredient is chosen because of how it tastes — not how cheap it is.
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Bronte DOP pistachio
Real Sicilian pistachios with the DOP protected designation. Specific origin — we know exactly which grove every batch comes from.
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Piemonte hazelnuts
Only the best from northern Italy. Always roasted, never raw. The same nuts that built Nutella's reputation — used properly.
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Belgian chocolate
A specific Belgian blend we developed for our bonbon shells. The thickness, the snap, the melt — calibrated.
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Syrian tahini
The soul of Bella Tahini. Sourced direct from a producer we trust, not industrial paste — actually tastes like sesame.
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Al Ain Farms dairy
Whole milk and fresh cream from the UAE's largest dairy. Local, traceable, and consistent.
vi.
B-Protein Buffalo Whey
The premium whey behind our protein gelato. Denser amino profile than standard whey — the same protein elite athletes use for recovery.
We're a tiny operation. Every order goes through our hands. That's the point.
Why Dubai
Italian roots, Dubai energy.
Dubai is a city built by people from everywhere, eating from everywhere. It's the kind of place where Karak and tiramisu live on the same street, and a tahini bonbon can become someone's new favorite thing.
That's our playground. We take Italian gelato craft and run it through the flavor lens of this city — Laban Up, saffron, rahash, cardamom — and make things you can't get anywhere else.
Some of it sounds wild on paper. Then you taste it.
Now you know
Come taste what extraordinary means.
Available on Talabat, Deliveroo and Careem across Al Quoz, Hessa, and Silicon Oasis. Or message us direct.
