Pitango

Pitango Gelato

Logan Circle

1451 P Street, NW

Washingtom DC

202 332 8877

http://www.pitangogelato.com/

I recently wrote about, Dolcezza, a gelato place in Georgetown (Washington, DC), and it was only a few days later that I discovered another one — Pitango in the Logan Circle area of Washington.

After a very pleasant dinner at a Thai restaurant, Rice, we decided to walk about and have dessert at a gelato place.

Like Dolcezza, Pitango prides itself on fresh ingredients.  Its dairy products come from a single herd of grass fed cows from a farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Preferring sorbet to ice cream, we chose quince, mojito, white grapefruit, and bosch pear.  All were excellent although I think that Dolcezza seems to have more imaginative flavors and they do something really special with the textures.  But the flavors were intense and tasted both fresh and natural.

Pitango is certainly worth a visit.  We all had the smallest size, which gives you two scoops for about $4.75 each.

Recommended!

Pitango has four branches.  Two of them are in Washington, DC, and one is in Reston.  The other is in the Fells Point area of Baltimore.