Dolcezza Gelato & Coffee Dolcezza Bethesda LLC

2 shots of espresso hailing from the mountains of Latin America and Africa.

Macchiato means marked in Italian. Our Dolcezza Macchiato is a traditional Italian style 3oz beverage marking 2 shots of espresso with a splash of toasted milk foam.

Rumor has it we couldn’t handle espresso some decades back and solved the problem by adding a little water. 2 shots of espresso diluted with 8oz of hot water. American exceptionalism at its finest.

The Dolcezza crew was stuck. We were working for 3 months trying to improve the humble Americano — to reimagine this classic drink and irrevocably reshape the speciality coffee industry forever. Our morale was in tatters — fresh out of ideas, no good answers, no good choices — consigning ourselves to despair and years of financial insolvency. But from our darkest moments, a hero emerged. Dylan, our Manager of Retail Operations, procured a 16oz cup and proceeded to pour 2 shots of espresso into that cup and top it off with hot water to the brim. He handed the drink to the group and with triumph proclaimed, “Behold! The large americano!” Unsure what to think, we slowly passed the cup around — each of us taking a sip. With each sip, our eyes widened, our countenance relaxed, the burden of our failure had been lifted. Dylan had done it. He solved the impossible. On that day we made a solemn promise to honor Dylan by making up a story about the origins of the large americano.

Equal parts espresso, steamed milk, and milk foam served in a 4oz gibraltar rocks glass. Perfectly balanced, for those who never finished their zen garden way back when that was a thing.

6 ounces of balance between coffee taste and milk texture. Take it in gulps whilst staring vacantly at the sky — questioning whether you truly did lock the front door before you left.

Not another flat-earther theory but equally as controversial and confusing in coffee reddit circles. Basically an 8oz latte.

2 shots of espresso with 8 oz of steamed milk. The perfect breakfast coffee and likely the first coffee drink that got every coffee-lover hooked. Consider it the high school jalopy of the coffee world. Not a lot of scoot, but you’ll smile every time you experience one and shed a tear reminiscing of a simpler time.

2 shots of espresso with 14 ounces of steamed milk. This drink weighs about 1 lb. Other things that weigh about 1 lb. include a block of butter, 20 AA batteries, and a guinea pig.

In the popular canine remake of Romeo and Juliet that played exclusively at the Belasco theatre in nineteen-aught-seven starring Booger the Pug as Romeo and Lilibeth the precocious cocker spaniel as Juliet, production had to stop momentarily when Booger the pug found himself on the wrong side of a mocha latte belonging to an intern of the director. The intern was dismissed summarily from his position for his negligence but not before the director changed the potassium cyanide from the original Romeo and Juliet text to a mocha latte due to its deleterious effect on Booger throughout production. Booger unfortunately was never the same and was last seen crossing the border into Mexico after a peyote-induced vision showed him a map to pug coo coo land.

This is a 16 ounce drink. I probably should have mentioned earlier that we make this syrup in-house with Valrhona dark chocolate.

If you can find a better vanilla latte than this, I’ll eat my shoe. Made in-house. We cook our own vanilla syrup using single origin extract from Madagascar. Then steep vanilla beans from Papau New Guinea in our syrup and age until time has extracted the wisdom of a millennia of flora, fauna, and mycelia . We know we’re done when the ancients of yore awake from their restless slumber to tell us we really need to stop listening to Lana Del Rey on repeat.

Found at the home of a local boy being investigated for B&E and theft at the local gated cloud community. Ultimately he was charged as an adult and found guilty and sentenced to 20 years at the state pen but was released in 10 for good behavior. He later found a productive career in local politics by riding a swelling populist wave and passed key legislation in criminal justice reform but ultimately embroiled his country in numerous foreign wars which led to his political downfall.

Dulce de leche is a confection created from the caramelization of milk and sugar. It’s amazingly complex and rich. You can eat it on toast like peanut butter. And we made our own for this amazing drink. It’s the most popular flavored drink we make, and it’s the best caramel latte you’ll ever have.

Inspired by Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar nominating performance in Rocky. A drink that feels like sparring in a meatpacking facility.

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (Live)

Most literary scholars incorrectly believe Wilfred Owen’s poem “Strange Meeting” reflects his experiences in the trenches of World War 1 but he later clarified in his memoirs that the poem was inspired by his early years in the Manchester Regiment constantly waiting in queue for an iced latte during tea time.

Franz Kafka’s seminal piece “The Metamorphosis” originally planned to have the protagonist Gregor Samsa transform unexpectedly into a large iced latte but that had to be scrapped for a huge insect when Kafka was notified by his publisher that it wouldn’t be well-recieved with the influential independent coffeehouses in the Leipzig suburbs. Later in his life, Kafka would claim this thematic alteration was his greatest shame and regret.

At some point in your life you’ll be asked to do something that at face value seems fairly easy but for some reason you can never get around to getting it done. Whenever that happens, I want you to remember this description.

“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little, I would have gotten used to it.” — The Stranger, Albert Camus

A rich blend of full-bodied Indian assam paired with Ceylon tea and a touch of Chinese Keenum. Delicious any time of day.

Indian assam black teas enlivened by sweet and aromatic spices.

Rare spring harvested green tea from China combined with aromatic spearmint and lemon myrtle.

Tender green leaves wedded with freshly picked jasmine buds from Fujian province in China.

Pacific-Northwest peppermint leaves, rich with distinct notes of chocolate and an intense refreshing finish.

Golden chamomile flowers from Egypt with mildly stimulating fragrant hyssop, rooibos, pink rose petals, and linden flowers.

A unique infusion of South-African rooibos and the peachy taste of honeybush, lightly sweet and medium-bodied.

Spring-harvested mao feng tea from Zhejian province in China that has a light, sweet, fresh flavor, and aroma.

The Matcha Cortado is a great balance between acceptability and punchiness. There’s less milk to dilute the flavor which means more umami. The cooler temperature of the steamed milk also promotes better mouthfeel. Take this in a few big gulps to overwhelm your palate with the vegetal smoothness.

The Matcha Latte is the best way to experience matcha for the uninitiated. The milk helps mute some of the bitter umami flavors of the matcha valuing approachability over funk.

The Matcha Americano is best for the purist at heart. No pesky milk to smoothen the flavor of the matcha. Embrace the ocean! Become one with the umami.

The Matcha Cortado is a great balance between acceptability and punchiness. There’s less milk to dilute the flavor which means more umami. The cooler temperature of the steamed milk also promotes better mouthfeel. Take this in a few big gulps to overwhelm your palate with the vegetal smoothness.

It’s gray. It tastes like an earthier Honey Nut Cheerio. And yes you should get it — if only to remind yourself this life resides in the unexpected space between light and darkness.

It’s gray. It tastes like an earthier Honey Nut Cheerio. And yes you should get it — if only to remind yourself this life resides in the unexpected space between light and darkness.

Sweet coconut gelato with coconut flecks and rivers of dulce de leche. No paddles needed for this trip -- let the warm tropical air lead you home!

This flavor marks a storied Dolcezza tradition of shameless combinations of our favorite (legal) drugs -- caffeine and chocolate. Juiced-up coffee gelato, chocolate-covered speculoos-nugs, littered with delicate chocolate flakes. Mind-altering gelato without the destruction of life, limb, and property.

Biscoff cookie gelato with generous portions of chocolate-covered biscoff cookies folded in.

The number one seller in our cafes, the venerable dark chocolate. Bittersweet, earthy with a slightly smokey finish. We call it frozen fudge -- to go any darker is not recommended.

Hazelnuts from the sacred Piedmont region of Italy. Chocolate hazelnut praline with flecks of wafer and hazelnut chunks. Pair these two together and you summon a beast capable of obliterating the most passionate disciples of self-control. Fear the crackle. UNLEASH THE CRACKLE.

Now that's what I call gelato vol 21. Rich peanut butter gelato. salty chocolate covered pretzels. chopped peanut butter cups grooving on monster waves of dulce de leche. Enter the mash pit and jam all night to the sweet soundtrack of an uncompromising youth.

Creamy natural peanut butter with dark chocolate chips — a peanut butter cup for the yearning masses.

Pistachio gelato made with pistachios from the legendary Sicilian region of Italy. These pistachios are sweeter and richer than their counterparts which makes for a deep and rich pistachio gelato.

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. — william carlos williams strawberries roasted in-house mixed with our warm vanilla base. life doesn't need to be complex to surprise you.

Stracciatella is the elevated gelato version of the classic chocolate chip ice cream. It differs by way of how the chocolate is added. Instead of throwing in waxy preformed pieces of chocolate as you would in the standard fare, stracciatella uses compound chocolate that is added in liquid form and hardens instantly upon contact with the gelato. The gelato is then massaged breaking the chocolate into delectable shards, nuggets, and bombs.

This vanilla is all about body and warmth. We use both vanilla extract and vanilla beans from Madagascar which has a profile that is earthy, round, and slightly sweet. Amazing on its own — even better on a slice of apple pie. Pair it with any baked item to attain hero status.

a classic argentine cookie. made with corn flour and a dulce de leche filling, wrapped delicately in coconut flakes.