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• Wil this be Australia's first vegan gelato shop?

The gelato is good - go there. Now onto more important things: The sweetest thing about this place is the ever diminishing dairy space in the corner of the display and the increasing vegan selection. (In fact, the dairy space is starting to look like a joke - the same way the "dairy free" sections often do in other gelato shops). The next sweet thing is seeing most people in the shop ordering in front of the vegan section - this place is littered with vegans with a much reduced number of inexorable cattle abusers licking their treats made with the suffering of innocent animals. TBH I'm not sure what's more exciting at Gelato Blue: the extensive vegan flavour selections or just the idea of a gelato shop that is primarily for vegans. There is a different air when going into a "vegan shop" than going into the dark corner where nonvegan shops have their "vegan alternatives;" where the vegan products are their pride and not some thorny concession to the "difficult people." And when plopped down and enjoying your gelato in their laid back seating area upstairs it is so much better knowing that the people around you are similarly licking products made with some consideration for peace rather than the abuse of animals. It's awesome! However, this shop is not yet vegan. It appears to me that the business case for a vegan gelato shop is pretty much there, and it's probably only a matter of the owners having a good conversation about animal rights and understanding the moral imperative to be vegan themselves before they ditch the dairy altogether. This may be up to us vegan customers to not just be happy gelato consumers but to take a genuine interest in the people who work there and not fail to advocate for animal rights generally and within the context of their shop.