don't ever say it's ice cream

CASA DE GELATO. 163 Lygon Street, Carlton

Ok, before you read this you should have no doubt of this: Gelato is completely different from Ice cream.
Gelato is a combination of milk, eggs, sugar, and natural flavouring(or fresh fruits and sugar in the flavouring); Ice creams, turn most flavours into pastels.
Gelato is a less firmly frozen, softer, more intensely flavoured and coloured creation of the italians.
They all melt faster than ice cream.
The best fruit gelato is made from crushed fresh ripe seasonal fruit; the best milk based gelato is is flavoured with all natural ingredients and has a silky consistency.

Glossary:
Semifreddo: "half-cold". Made from the same base as gelato but has whipped cream folded in. Vaguely resembles a mousse.
Sorbetto: fruit sorbet.
Granite: slushy grainy water ices.

Now that we've got all the facts right, let's do the very first review.
Casa de Gelato is along Lygon Street. Its style is more prone towards Sorbetto. I think it is the only gelaterie along the whole of Lygon that offers that many flavours.
You can normally find traces of freshness in Casa's gelato. Eg, hazelnut in the Bacio flavour. watermelon seeds in their Melon flavour, candy crisps in their Ferrero Roche flavour. Of course, some might argue it could be artificially made to make us believe they're fresh, but at least they put in some effort.
Most of the fruit flavours in Casa is fantastic. It recently introduced Durian flavour. That is to counter the fierce competition that emerged lately.
However, the soul of Casa De Gelato is still the Bacio flavour.
As a Sorbetto shop, the Bacio is just too rich and thick to be true.
Weekends are mostly crowded. You'd have to wait for an hour.
But normally the service is swift.
A single scoop consists of 3 flavours, starts at $3.60 Aussie.
Casa De Gelato opens from 12 noon till late. Closes during winter.

Quality: 9 Service: 8.5 Price: 8.5 Variety: 10
Score: 9

Note: Some might refer Gelato as Gelati. I say chill, as gelato is the plural form and gelati is the singular form.