Cow & The Moon

Creamy yet gelato, is always consistent with the texture, there’s no tang like others good to there sorbets so you know they use real ingredients in there mix. The affogato is always to die for.

Can I give 10 stars? Easily best gelato in Sydney and apparently the world! We got married in Italy and had gelato the day after our wedding, had many trips to Italy, and lived in NYC the past four years, so humbly feel I can say I’ve had a few exceptional gelato in my life and this was = off the charts, shut the door, hold the phone kinda good.
I almost don’t want to promote them because they are so awesome and will get overrun, not that they need any marketing. Their product speaks for itself! BEST IN THE WORLD in Rimini.
Just do yourself a favor, move to Enmore and make this part of your weekly routine.
Re: flavors. Only problem is choosing one or two, they are all phenomenal. But if you are reading this review sometime close to when I posted it– I had hazelnut Rocher and raspberry cheesecake. Can’t recommend them highly enough!
In addition: lovely environs and great service. Really nice staff. Thus wanting to give 10 stars! If my waistline and wallet would allow it, I’d come every day.

Hmm, meh? Overrated average ice-​cream. My partner and I both wondered what the hype was about.

Obviously some of Sydney’s best gelato (check out the award list) and offers a more traditional selection of flavours than many other places. Nice staff and you can have two flavours in a small serve ($ 5.50) which is accomodating, unlike many other places. I had the gingerbread flavour and the roast strawberry and balsamic vinegar flavour, both of which I would highly recommend.

Friday night at Cow and the Moon, feels like you are lining up to get into an exclusive club. The queue slithered out of the shop, down the footpath and around the corner. Obviously this shows how good the ice cream is, especially after being awarded the 2016 Australian Gelato Grand Champion!
There is over 25 different flavours from pretty pink Turkish delight, salted caramel, Mandorla Affogato, stracciatella and so many more delicious delights. Normally my eyes are bigger than my stomach, but a small cup entitles you to two generous servings for $ 5.50. I ordered the peanutella and the Morello cherry which was the perfect post dinner sweet tooth treat.
The Cow and the Moon is definitely worth the walk if you are coming from Newtown and certainly gives Gelato Messina a run for their money!

Heaving on a Friday night is always a good sign!
We followed the crowds and ooooh-​ed and aaah-​ed over the many delicious and interesting sounding flavours.
I opted for a great mix of passion fruit cream, tangy yet sweet, and lemon sorbet, über zesty and refreshing.
Two scoops in a tub was around $ 6.50 — tasty and large portions. You can’t go wrong. Unless of course you pick the apple and wasabi gelato.

Believe the hype! Gelato here is awesome, and lots of unique variety. Service was excellent and friendly. There may be quite a line because it’s so good and they tend to you individually. I’ll be back to try some of the other flavors!

Ok, prepare the pitchforks and the yelling, this place is good but honestly not great. I think that Messina and N2 have better quality gelato, and their flavours are better. So yes, all my friends want to kill me because I don’t absolutely love this place.
So let me explain I think that Messina has better quality gelato, and the more exciting flavours. I’m not saying this not good gelato, it is good. But everyone swears it is the best gelato that they have ever had — and it’s not. Especially as normally you might have to wait in line — and it is not worth waiting in line for.
So come here if you are in the area. But personally not worth traveling for or raving about. So bring on the massacre! How dare I not say that this is heaven on earth!!! I know, I know.

the line gives this place away — the icecream is more than worth the few minutes waiting in the line.
The balsamic strawberry is simply delicious and the other flavours I tried were equally fine.
The set up is a little difficult to be able to see the flavours before you get to the front and are about to order but the staff don’t rush you and are more than happy to let you have a taste.
A interesting range of flavours of superb icecream! well worth hitting up if you are in the area or even if you aren’t in the area it’s worth making a trip for!

We visited at around 8:30pm on a Monday night. There was still a queue but not too long and just enough time to read reviews to find out which gelato to get, if you are reading this in line I will cut to the chase: Get the Mandorla Affogato (it’s the winner), the rest is up to you. We also got the chocolate and stracciatella, which were great too.
There are tables and seats but you need to be quick to grab one.
It is also cash only.

This place is not over rated. They have so much love in their ice cream and you can tell when you eat it. It’s thick, flavour some, creamy, and some choices have chunky surprises such as biscuit or caramel incorporated in them etc. I ordered the affagato flavour which was amazing. When I came to order — they give you 2 flavours for $ 5 which seemed quite cheap! They can somehow scoop the ice cream to fit more in a serving… Amazing!

We came here after going to a restaurant in another suburb. It wasn’t that we didn’t have dessert before we left it was just that, apparently, some of us have a larger dessert stomach. Parking is always interesting around these streets but you can usually score one later in the evening which we did. It was raining and cold, yet there was a queue. The tables were all taken and I wondered what the fuss was about this place.
The gelato is very good and it is pretty cool to wait in the queue craning your neck to read the little labels to see what flavours are on offer whilst the rest of the party forage for a table and chairs. There is no «menu» to browse so if it hadn’t been for the Unilocal app and looking at all the reviews I wouldn’t have had a clue as to where to start.
The balsamic strawberry was a bit of disappointment as I got the strawberry in one spoonful and the next spoonful was balsamic. Not sure what happened there. The Mandorla Affogato was the pick followed by Lemon & Ginger (nice chucks of crystalised ginger).
I didn’t really need to have a second dessert but this was a worthwhile visit.

Cow & the Moon only appeared on my radar after a friend of mine raved about this place near the Enmore Theatre and being the food adventurist I wanted to check it out.
It’s a small café nestled along Enmore Road. The café looks very inviting on the inside and grabs your attention straight away because when you look up the first thing your going to notice is the amount of award plaques this place has accumulated. Gold and first place labels are everywhere. This instantly got me excited and optimistic.
The café does a range of normal café style treats and coffees which I’m sure are probably as amazing but the reason I was here was to try some ice cream so I managed to stay focused.
The ice cream costs $ 5 for the small size $ 6.50 for Medium and $ 8 for the large size. The serving is either in a cone or cup. I decided to go cup so I could take my time and savour the flavours because sometimes with a cone it’s a race against the clock. I chose medium which gave me the option of 3 flavours, I opted for pistachio, Mandorla Affogato and Delizia.
The Delizia was a chocolate orange flavour and reminded me of Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Delicious combination and this flavour perfected it like the famous chocolate egg.
The Mandorla Affogato is a combination of caramelised roasted almonds and a single-​origin coffee sauce with a Madagascan-​vanilla-​bean base. Once again we Unilocalers hear those famous words ‘Single Origin’ and we know we are about to encounter something special. This flavour is the stores world winning flavour and an absolute must try. Gelato at its best. The flavour is so smooth and soft and it’s a world winner so don’t take my word for it. Take the Italian judges.
The Pistachio for me was good but nothing exceptional have had more flavoursome pistachio ice creams in eastern restaurants. If I had only gotten two flavours I would have been disappointed but given the awesome flavouring of the other two all was forgiven.
Delightful family run café that has no intention of franchising. They are happy to run out of this delightful café. Will certainly be back here to try out some other award winning flavours and maybe even some pastries which did look amazing.

Tried the award winning gelato and it was dam fine! Cherry ripe flavour was also delicious.
The night i picked to go there of course coincided with everyone else wanting to go!
Queued for about 30 mins and finally we got in the store, so be prepared to wait!
Unique and interesting flavours, Even for those fussy people out there, i’m sure you would be able to find a flavour that satisfies your fussiness!

Velvety creamy goodness… only a bus ride away from Sydney CBD.
Ever since I read the article on C&M being the world’s best gelato makers, I have been wanting to come here. If I had known it’s so close and convenient, I would have probably gone a lot sooner.
Compared to the refreshing sorbet like flavors, I love me some creamy nutty gelato :) Aside from the Mandoria Affogato (obvious choice), I got the hazelnut and debated heavily between the chocolate and coffee flavor (coffee won). Love the consistency and flavor of the gelato.
I am glad it’s in Newtown. Otherwise I will be in deep trouble (from consuming too much gelato)!

Really great gelato and excellent service on a rainy Sydney, Sunday afternoon.
The staff was friendly, efficient and I have traveled globally and had a lot of gelato –so I pretty sure this is one of the better places I’ve been to.
Tried the strawberry and balsamic– as well as passionfruit –but I found the chocolate and lemon to be the best

Amazing. My friend from my travel group found this place and told me we gotta go. Being an ice-​cream man himself it was a must see on his list. He works and runs an ice cream store back in Holland and when they were reviewing the yearly world awards this place got #1 in the world. not just Australia but the world! HELLO!!‘I would have had no idea if I didn’t meet this guy on my travels.
The store by far is cute and tiny. Tons of options from cakes, to drinks, and of course flavors of gelato and ice cream. I ordered the award winning Affogatheo (don’t quote my spelling) and the Avocado ice cream. I expected the Avocado to have more of a strong flavour, but it was mild. The award winning flavour was by far something I have not experienced and left my mouth watering for more lol
My friend from my tour was explaining the quality and consistency of the ice cream is nice which allows the flavors to pop in the worlds number #1 ice cream. To me its just good or shall I say great. I liked it and I’d love another scoop again when I’m in and around that part of town.

*The rating is given on the world champion flavour only.
In order to understand what the fuss is all about, it is important to acknowledge that each gelateria only submitted one flavour to be judged at the Gelato World Tour. Meaning, only one flavour at Cow and the Moon was dubbed the number one gelato in the world: Almond Affogato (also known as Mandorla Affogato).
The verdict: I loved it!
I usually don’t like nuts in my gelato, but the caramalised crunchy bits scatted within the Mandora Affogato were roasted to perfection. Overall, it’s sweet, but not dead sweet.
On a side note, the other two flavours that I picked were hazelnut and peach, both were average and too creamy for my liking.

I came here on a tip from my hotel clerk… thank god it was a Monday night, as almost every other night of the week, they had a crazy lineup. It took more like 40 minutes for my second visit.
Their most famous flavour is Mandorla affogato which is a coffee base with salted caramel and roasted almonds. They claim it’s a world champion gelato… I certainly liked it but found it just a bit overly sweet. The strawberry balsamic was probably their second best.
I would have loved to try a couple flavours before choosing, but I just kind of got this vibe that they just wanted me to pick and move on… and that was on Monday night when the line was quite short.
It’s a pretty good deal though for artisan gelato, reasonable prices. Delicious, although I have found other places I prefer better: Bent Spoon in Princeton, Tara’s in Oakland, and Grom in Florence.

I was encouraged to provide a review after way too many visits to Cow & Moon. There is almost always a line up so if that is your metric of good, this place wins for sure. What draws people in the first time is the international win in Italy of the BEST GELATO IN THE WORLD. No joke. They were one of three gelato places in Australia invited to Italy and they won with their creation — an almond affogato flavour. Yes, it has espresso in the flavour so that is a plus for me. But there are also some other ingredients — carmelised almonds. Delicious. BUT you can’t buy it to take away in a large container. They only sell it in cones and cups there.
I actually only had it once — there are so many other flavours to try. Vanilla Bean is awesome and intense. But lately they experiment in their ‘gelato lab’ and come up with new ones all the time. chocolate and plum was yesterday’s incarnation. But really you have to try what they have and they have great people working so you can easily try a few before deciding. I’ve never pushed my luck since by the third or fourth I definitely want more than just a taste. Yes, they have a solid chocolate and it may even be better than Messina but you will need to do side by side tasting to make a final decision.
Yes, you go there for ice cream but they have sorbets and some pastries and of course coffee.