Butterfat Gelato

Butterfat Gelato is a Northside Pittsburgh gelato company crafting small-batch, from-scratch gelato and sorbetto using traditional Italian techniques and high-quality ingredients. Butterfat was awarded People’s Choice for Most Popular Flavor at the 2023 Gelato Festival World Masters Semifinals, and in 2025 competed as one of the top 10 gelato chefs in North America. Our upcoming Italian-style gelato shop on Pittsburgh’s Northside will offer fresh scoops, featuring both classic flavors and creative seasonal offerings.

Butterfat Gelato is an ice cream shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is listed at 404 E Ohio St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, which places it among the local businesses of Pittsburgh that residents and visitors turn to when they need this kind of service close by. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as dessert shop, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

In Pittsburgh, the best-known bakeries and bagel shops have lines on weekend mornings, so arrive early or order ahead where the shop offers it. Across Pennsylvania, immigrant bakeries add Mexican pan dulce, Vietnamese banh mi bread, Chinese buns, Middle Eastern sweets and European rye to the mix, and many gluten-free and vegan bakeries have opened in larger cities. Check the listing for hours, whether the shop accepts custom cake orders and its Google rating before you go, and call about allergens, since small kitchens often share equipment. Day-old bread and end-of-day discounts are common if you ask.

The business lists hours on 4 days of the week. On most of those days it is open 5–10 pm. Note that it does not open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. As with most places, expect changes around holidays; the phone number below is the fastest way to confirm. No phone number is listed for this business, so the Google Maps link on this page is the best route for directions and any contact details Google has on file. Its website is butterfatgelato.com, where you may find menus, price lists or booking options.

Customers rate it 5.0 out of 5 on Google across 50 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded ice cream & gelato in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania, in the Northeast, where four distinct seasons shape local life: hot humid summers, snowy winters that can close businesses for a day, and a dense pattern of towns where walking, transit and street parking all matter. Traffic in Pittsburgh peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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