For Your Saratoga Springs Sweet Tooth: Eugenio’s Café Gelato

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For the past two years the Food Dudes visited Lake Georgeand made a long weekend out of Damion’s marathon running obsession. Sadly, LakeGeorge is kind of dead in the offseason. Actually it is a ghost town in theoffseason. Even though we missed the start of the busy season by a few weeks, afew shops were open to satisfy our foodie needs. This time we decided to makethe 30 minute drive to nearby Saratoga Springs and were delighted we did so.

For you rookies out there (we consider ourselves veteransafter one visit) downtown Saratoga Springs has a lot to offer. We noticed manycrowded restaurants, don’t worry, we will try a bunch next year or later thisyear if possible, plus coffee shops, ice cream parlors, bars, and clubs. Weactually started to wonder if we should have stayed here…
Anyway, this is not the Food Dudes Travel Guide.
The first of two places in Toga to get a shout out isEugenio’s Café Gelato. A few random facts about me:

1.          I love ice cream
2.          I love gelato more
3.          I   do not get brain freezes

That last one makes people envy my uncanny ability to shovelcold food things down and they cannot. Ha!
When we walked into Eugenio’s our sweet tooth meter wasgoing crazy. After wings and pizza earlier we needed something and this did thetrick. We just went up to the counter and froze up, not knowing what to order.As if we needed to stand out any more as out-of-towners this really made itobvious. Eventually I decided on a large with three different flavors, vanillabean, salted caramel, and creamsicle because that surely goes with the firsttwo choices.

Some of the vibrant colors of the fruit-based gelatos.

My creation. Sorry about the hand.

You know you want some gelato now.

We chatted up the nice counter lady with the Australian accent?At least I think that’s right. She told us the owner makes the gelato himselfwith local and organic ingredients whenever possible and you could really tell.Every flavor was creamy and dense like gelato should be and I did in fact tastethe salt in the salted caramel, my favorite of the three.
I could try to name all the flavors but I won’t. They justhad so many, not a complaint by the way. Rounding out Eugenio’s menu are gelatoin a cone, sundaes, shakes, a variety of coffees and teas, homemade lemonade, agelato float, and something to try on a return trip, gelato lemonade which istheir lemonade with two scoops of a fruit based gelato.
Even though Saratoga Springs had seemingly good restaurants,getting dessert at Eugenio’s would be difficult not to do. Be sure to stop inthis quaint gelato shop if you’re in the area. We know this will be one of ourfirst stops on our next visit.


Eugenio’s CaféGelato458 Broadway Saratoga Springs,NY 12866(518) 691-6000http://www.eugenioscafegelato.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EugeniosCafeGelato