Ice cream shops in Nitra
Nitra is a classic-ice-cream town. What dominates is cooked cream ice cream with fruit sorbets, served in cafés and pastry shops where you sit down with a coffee and a slice of cake; the flavour counters are long and the reputations were built over decades, as local readers’ polls keep confirming. Italian gelato has a single outpost here — a retro café below the castle on Kupecká, where it is made in the shop’s own lab and served with homemade cakes and lemonade.
Most addresses are in the old town, on Štefánikova avenue and in the pedestrian zone, close enough to cover in one walk. If you are staying in the Chrenová district there is a neighbourhood parlour there too, praised locally for generous scoops and strong, creamy flavours.
What the list shows
- Shops listed
- 4
- What they make
- gelato (1), cream ice cream (3), sorbets (3)
- Worth the trip for
- made on site (2), vegan flavours (1), café (3), desserts (2)
Ice cream shops
Other districts
Maestro
Štefánikova trieda 78/56, Nitra — An ice cream shop on Štefánikova trieda opposite Domino and the Mlyny shopping centre, regarded by locals as a tried-and-tested classic.
Chrenová
Mimoza
Own production unconfirmed
Výstavná 963/6, Nitra — A housing-estate ice cream shop in Chrenová that locals praise for its creamy, bold flavours and big scoops.
Staré Mesto
Balkánska zmrzlina
Own production unconfirmed
Štefánikova trieda 25, Nitra — An ice cream shop with a patisserie in a courtyard off the pedestrian zone, running in Nitra for decades.
Gio v Nitre (Gio Caffe – Gelato Italiano)
Kupecká 2, Nitra — A retro-style café and gelateria below Nitra Castle that has been making gelato the Italian way in its own lab on Kupecká street for almost ten years.
Where to next
List verified 9/2026