Marcelo’s Ice Cream

Flavours available by the scoop this weekend

Head to their instagram or website to see what they’re churning up and where you can find them slinging scoops each weekend.

“Hello, we’re James and Lindsay! The two man band behind Marcelo’s, churning, delivering and scooping week in and week out. (Though no business is an island! There’s countless people who’ve supported and guided us through this journey).

Prior to this, James worked as a chef for a number of years. Whilst Lindsay worked as a neonatal nurse and still does the odd shift when our ice cream schedule allows. James is the brains behind the 90+ flavours we have developed whilst Lindsay is the engine that keeps the business running in the right direction.

The roots of this business can be traced back to a cycle trip around Italy and Sicily in 2018. Consuming gelato 3 times a day naturally had us dreaming of starting our own ice cream business one day.  It only took four years for us to finally take the plunge and purchase a 3rd hand commercial ice cream machine on eBay and turn our 3m x 2m spare bedroom into a bootleg ice cream factory.

We’ve been running this biz for just over 2 and a half years now. In which time we have graduated from our spare bedroom and into a purpose built ice cream kitchen!  You can find us popping up at markets all around south east London, though we are primarily based in Crystal Palace and we couldn’t be more proud to call it home!

Whether it be by the scoop or by the pint; at its heart Marcelo’s is two people putting their all into making the best ice cream they possibly can. It has completely taken over our lives but thanks to all of your support we are more impassioned than ever to push our ice cream forward.  Churned in a classic gelato style for a silky smooth finish but made from an ultra creamy in house oat milk that hits any dairy note you might be craving.