Jordi Roca and Alejandra Rivas

Today we get to know Jordi Roca and Ale­jan­dra Rivas from Ro­cam­bo­lesc, an ice-cream par­lour right in the heart of Girona’s most crowded streets. The shop spe­cialises in home made ice cream and unique desserts that re­quire a lot of imag­i­na­tion, cre­ativ­ity and hard work from the peo­ple who are in­volved in such an en­deav­our.

1. Ice cream ter­rines. One of the most im­por­tant items be­cause it means clients can take the ice cream away and eat it any­where that isn’t here.

2. Cot­ton-candy ma­chine. One of the most re­quested top­pings by their cos­tumers. Orig­i­nally from the “postre làctic”, but since it is so pop­u­lar as a top­ping, Jordi and Añejan­dra in­stalled it in the shop.

3. “Panets” ma­chine. De­signed by An­dreu Carulla, it’s a ma­chine that makes hot bread rolls filled with cold ice cream and top­pings. Th­ey­came up with the idea dur­ing in our first win­ter when they were look­ing for a way to sell ice creams in win­ter.

4. Ice cream ma­chine. A spe­cial ma­chine that mixes the ice cream just be­fore it’s served.

5. Lac­tic dessert. The star dessert of El Celler de Can Roca, it’s pop­u­lar­ity made them de­cide to offer a take­away pack to be able to enjoy it at home.

6. Pack­ag­ing. At Ro­cam­bo­lesc they be­lieve that the out­side of the prod­uct is as im­por­tant as the in­side.

7. Shop de­sign. The unique dec­o­ra­tions strive to make all cus­tomers feel as thought they have en­tered a dif­fer­ent world, one where imag­i­na­tion, games and re­lax­ation are the fun­da­men­tal el­e­ment.

8. Pop­si­cle’s moulds. Spe­cial sil­i­cone moulds; every stick is filled one by one in order to cre­ate these un­usual pop­si­cles. It is a la­bo­ri­ous process be­cause every mould re­quires spe­cial at­ten­tion and var­i­ous pro­ce­dures.

9. Girona’s ap­ples. Main in­gre­di­ent of the baked apple ice cream. In­spired by the mem­ory of the orig­i­nal dessert pre­pared by Jordi’s mother dur­ing his child­hood.

10. Apron. In­dis­pens­able for this type of work, all the staff are re­quired to wear one

11. Bi­cy­cle. Very use­ful when car­ry­ing small pack­ages from the bak­ery to the work­room or the Celler. Plus it’s re­ally cool!

12. En­gruna. The cou­ple’s dog, an adorable chi­huahua whose name means “crumb”.