Welcome to Spoon Bay Gelato
There’s no roadmap for a little Aussie gelato business. Making it up, mixing it up, trying new stuff, experimenting, imagining, growing, paring back and refining. That’s how we create our product and service and how our business continues to evolve.
Way back in 2015 we had an idea. On a whim and with the memory of eating goat’s milk yogurt, honey and lavender in Turkey, we started making goat’s milk gelato.
Mr Goaty was a hit at Bondi markets and cool enough to get the write ups in Broadsheet. Things were happening, you could find our tubs in us in shop freezers and IGA.
Then we moved to the Central Coast and found our place. Sunny and slower. A place you can live and work and still feel like you’re on holiday. Where nature is everything and everywhere. We found our people, a earthy community of fun and food lovers.
Our lives changed and broadened, so did the business.
We weren’t making gelato with goat’s milk anymore.
Julia (ie. Mrs Goaty) was also running the show alongside Dan. And we were having babies, buying a vintage ice cream van and four gelato bikes, opening a gelato bar and cafe then selling it, and scooping gelato at thousands of weddings, parties, pop-ups and events.
We outgrew our space, bought a warehouse and built our dream gelato kitchen, with fior di latte tiles and a pistachio colored floor. Cow’s milk was the prime ingredient but still the name stayed.
So much of the business seedling is still there. Quality, taste, texture, adventure, freshness. But in big and small ways we’ve shifted. This is why we changed our name to Spoon Bay Gelato.
It’s one of our favourite places. It’s small and special, a bit wild, changing form with tides and seasons.
Gelato is fun, but we take our product, sustainability and inclusivity very seriously. Whether you buy a $6.50 scoop at a farmers market or book a $1,650 wedding package the experience is essentially the same. A delicious treat, made by real people with love and care to the highest standards.
One of the best parts of our story is the people we have worked with and befriended over the last nine years. Customers who invited us to their most important and meaningful celebrations. Companies and charities who trust us to deliver the goods. And the lovely folks and families that follow us and appear so often at markets and pop ups to buy our stuff. We see you. Even if Dan doesn’t seem to remember your name.
Place is important. It links our senses, our experiences and our feeling of connection.
We are in our sweet spot. For now.