Thanks for this post! I'm currently planning a trip to Italy for next spring and we probably would have ended up at a regular ice cream shop at some point if I hadn't seen this.
It did make me wonder how my go-to "gelato" place here in San Diego stacks up. I'm not exactly sure if it is true gelato, though, considering that it sticks up somewhat over the bins in the display case (but doesn't seem to stick up that much) and that it was more spherical in my cup than I'd have expected:
(that said, it's still pretty good as far as dessert items go)