Dolcezza has new sign, new Holiday Menu at Bethesda Row

Dolcezza Gelato & Coffee has a new sign and a new Holiday Menu at its Bethesda Row location at 7111 Bethesda Lane. The new neon-look sign has been installed above the storefront. Inside, their largest Holiday Menu of gelato flavors and beverages is now available.

Holiday Gelato Flavors:

• Coffee & Xmas Cookies – Rich coffee gelato folded together with chocolate covered biscoff cookies and a touch of xmas sugar

• Hot Cocoa –  Holiday spiced milk chocolate gelato with fresh marshmallow and warming notes of cinnamon and nutmeg.

• Sugar Cookie Dough –Vanilla Bean Gelato, bits of dark chocolate chips and morsels of sugar cookie dough.

• King Leo Peppermint – Crushed pieces of King Leo peppermint candy folded into mint gelato and ladled with melted dark chocolate. 

Holiday Hot Drinks:

• Gingerbread Latte

• King Leo Peppermint Mocha 

• Coconut Spiced Coquito Latte – a nod to Puerto Rican coquito, the island’s festive twist on eggnog.

Coming soon to the Bethesda shop will be new soft-serve gelato and sundaes. These are available now at the local chain's H Street NE and Hirshhorn locations in downtown Washington, D.C.

Halloween pumpkin and candy flavors at Dolcezza at Bethesda Row

Stop by Dolcezza Gelato and Coffee at 7111 Bethesda Lane at Bethesda Row this week to try limited time flavors for the Halloween and fall seasons. Why just have a fun size Butterfinger bar out of your Halloween candy bag, when you can have chopped Butterfinger bars and rich melted chocolate swirled into premium Dolcezza vanilla bean gelato? Indulge before it ghosts the menu on November 3.

Special pumpkin flavors will stick around through the end of November. Dolcezza's fall menu utilizes a pumpkin spice syrup made from 1,800 lbs of heirloom crookneck pumpkins grown at Beiler’s Heritage Acres Farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The pumpkins were oven-blistered in-house with dark brown sugar, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, and clove to create the syrup featured in the following limited-time-only treats:

Pumpkin Spice Gelato

Pumpkin Spice Latte

Pumpkin Chai Latte

Honeycrisp Apple Sorbet, made with apples grown by Toigo Orchards in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

Valentine's Day flavors at Dolcezza at Bethesda Row

Dolcezza at 7111 Bethesda Lane has two romantic flavors for Valentine's Day at Bethesda Row. Red Velvet Cake features red velvet cake batter gelato with slices of red velvet cake, and swirls of cream cheese frosting. Passion Fruit Mousse is a fluffy passion fruit gelato made from whole fresh passion fruit, with drizzles of passionfruit coulis. Both flavors will be available for the rest of February.

Photo courtesy Dolcezza

Free scoop of gelato July 21 at Dolcezza at Bethesda Row

Celebrate National Ice Cream Day this Sunday at Bethesda Row. Dolcezza at 7111 Bethesda Lane will be celebrating the local Argentine gelato and coffee chain's 21st anniversary on the same day, July 21, 2024. 

Chocotorta gelato

To get a free scoop of Chocotorta gelato, tell your server "Happy Birthday" when you place your order. Chocotorta is a dulce de leche gelato with chocolate-cookie-dulce-de-leche-mousse cake folded into it. Customers who buy a pint of any flavor of gelato on Sunday can also get a second pint for 50%-off.

Dolcezza reopens at Bethesda Row

Dolcezza has reopened at 7111 Bethesda Lane at Bethesda Row. The gelato and coffee shop has completed a renovation project. No target reopening date had been given when the business closed last month, but it took 25 days to finish the work. Dolcezza returns with one less competitor, as Class 520 closed permanently last week on Elm Street.

Dolcezza closes for renovations at Bethesda Row

Dolcezza has temporarily closed at Bethesda Row for renovations. No reopening date has been announced, but maybe they've learned from the experiences of neighbor Sweetgreen. The work is expected to take weeks, not months, however.

Dolcezza cheating death at Bethesda Row?

Dolcezza is down to seven lives at Bethesda Row. The gelato and coffee shop stunned fans by announcing it would close last fall due to the financial impact of the pandemic on its business. Then, just a month later, the local chain announced the Bethesda Row location would get a brief reprieve through the holiday season. But Santa Claus has come and gone, and Dolcezza is still in business at 7111 Bethesda Lane.

And the shop isn't just still open. They're even offering new pastries from Howard County's Rustiq, and two llmited-time specials: Passionfruit Mousse, and Blood Orange Sherbet. 

DOLCEZZA ADDS MICHELE'S GRANOLA TO LIST OF LOCAL SUPPLIERS AT BETHESDA ROW

Bethesda Row gelato hotspot Dolcezza is known for sourcing many of its ingredients from local farmers and producers. The latest addition is Michele's Granola of Timonium, MD.

Michele's Granola is handmade, in small batches, in the company's Baltimore-area facility. Made with 100% organic, whole grain oats, the granola is free of any GMO ingredients or preservatives.

The first batch of granola was delivered to Dolcezza on Wednesday. Michele's Granola says the new partnership is "a beautiful match."

Dolcezza, 7111 Bethesda Lane

DOLCEZZA NOW OPENS AT 6 AM AT BETHESDA ROW! (PHOTO)

There's a new morning coffee player in town: Dolcezza is now open at 6:00 AM at Bethesda Row. Known best for authentic Italian gelato, Dolcezza also pours a very high quality cup of coffee. This might take some of the sting out of Dunkin' Donuts' expected departure from Bethesda Avenue this summer. Might.

7111 Bethesda Lane, 301-215-9226.

BETHESDA ROW SIDEWALK SALE PHOTO GALLERY 2013

Day 1 of the Bethesda Row Sidewalk Sale found many bargains to be had from boutiques around the Row.

$25 and $50 pieces at Ginger, $6 scarves at lou lou and more hung from racks up and down Bethesda Lane.

Dolcezza and Cosi were among the establishments serving up emergency cool-down refreshments for shopping overheated by weather or fashion fever.

The sale continues today and tomorrow.

VALRHONA HOT CHOCOLATE AT DOLCEZZA AT BETHESDA ROW

The upscale way to fix the fact that you're freezing today, is to order a Valrhona Hot Chocolate from Dolcezza at Bethesda Row.

This isn't a Swiss Miss pouch, but a 70% dark chocolate beverage that dates back to 1920s France.