Our Story
We’re a small family-run business, making every batch of gelato with care.
🌱 All natural, dairy-free, with no added colorings or sugar—just pure, handcrafted flavor you can taste in every scoop.
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With over 10 years of experience in food service as a gelato chef in Poland, Pawel Petrykowski partnered with Pawel Bodzicki in 2016, to create a small batch, natural and creative gelato franchise in Poland: Paulo Gelateria. With its unique creations and customer experience in its first shop located in Gdansk, Poland, they have rapidly expanded its franchise to 7 shops, including 5 franchisees.
Chef Pawel Petrykowski is also a consultant and teacher who travels the world sharing his passion and love for the gelato craft. Pawel created in 2018
his very own signature chocolate recipe "Paulo Gelateria 75%", made with
cocoa beans from Tanzania, Venezuela & Ecuador.
Pawel's passion for chocolate took him to Alto el Sol, a small cocoa farmer community in the jungle of Juanjui, where he met his soon to be wife Manoela in 2018. Together, they moved to Chicago in 2019 where Manoela was a Marketing Director for a Chocolate company while Pawel started shaping his vision for
his first gelato shop in the Windy City. In June 2022 they opened Paulo Gelato & Chocolate, where all the gelato sold in the shop is prepared daily in front of the customers.
