Type ice cream near me into a phone in Los Angeles at eleven at night and the map fills with soft-serve chains, one gas-station freezer, and a scattering of pins for shops that stopped scooping years ago. The gelato answer is a much shorter list, and it is governed almost entirely by the clock. These counters are spread across five neighborhoods with nothing in common except a stainless case, and their opening hours differ by as much as four and a half hours on the same weekday. Sorting them by geography is how you end up parked outside a dark window. Sorting them by hour is how you actually eat.
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Two names on the old lists are not serving anyone
Before the good news: Bulgarini, the Altadena gelateria that Leo Bulgarini and Elizabeth Foldi opened in 2006 and turned into a full pasta restaurant after 2018, survived the January 2025 Eaton Fire but has not reopened. The owners have said the building is not safe for serving or eating food and have floated relocating to Eagle Rock or La Crescenta-Montrose. Its pistachio, made with Sicilian Pistacchio di Bronte, is still cited on best-of lists that nobody has updated. Fatamorgana is the other ghost: its Studio City and Beverly Hills listings are both flagged closed, and the brand's own locations page no longer resolves. Do not drive to either one.
Downtown, where the gelato outlasts the staff
Uli's Gelato sits at 541 S Spring Street, Unit 104, inside the Spring Arcade Building, and it is the reason this list is sorted by time. Ülviyyə — Uli — grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan, arrived at Colorado College on a full scholarship in 2001, and started building recipes in 2012 after noticing there was simply nowhere in Downtown Los Angeles to get gelato. The original gelateria opened on April 14, 2014. What exists now is not that room. The business rebuilt itself after the pandemic as a manufactory with a to-go window, and in 2022 it added a gelato vending machine, which is the part worth knowing: the machine is listed at 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, dispensing 16-ounce pints and 5-ounce minis of California pistachio, sea salt caramel, stracciatella, speculoos cookie, chocolate sorbet and coconut lemongrass sorbet. Aggregator listings still show a legacy 11:30 a.m. cafe schedule and a bakery-cafe description that no longer matches the operation. Text ahead before a late run.
Beverly Grove, and the counter that ignores lunch entirely
Ecco un poco at 8318 W 3rd Street is the one that quietly breaks plans. It does not open until 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, which means a noon craving fails five days out of seven. Weekends are gentler at 12:30 p.m. Closing is 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The trade for the awkward schedule is a kitchen that makes small batches fresh daily using Los Angeles farmers market produce alongside Italian imports, keeps the gelato and the waffle cones fully gluten-free, and runs an unusually deep vegan sorbetto lineup. One more thing about this stretch: Uli's old Mid-City shop was a few blocks east on the same 3rd Street, and it is closed. If a map sends you there, you are looking at a dead pin.
Silver Lake, ten in the morning, and a board that keeps moving
Pazzo Gelato has been at 3827 W Sunset Boulevard since 2006 and opens at 10 a.m. every day, the earliest door on this list by two hours. It closes at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Roughly a dozen flavors rotate rather than sit, so the case you saw last month is not the case today: Mexican coffee, matcha, and a spicy Thai tea with Asian pear turn up regularly, and the vegan side carries mango sorbetto, apricot and horchata depending on what the farmers markets gave up that week. The mango is the one people describe as tasting like biting into the fruit. The line moves slowly because almost everyone tastes two or three things first, so budget ten minutes even when only four people are ahead of you.
Four Westside counters, one brand, eleven o'clock every night
Bacio di Latte is the reliable late answer if you are anywhere west or central. The company was started in 2011 by Edoardo and Luigi Tonolli, is run from Brazil where it operates well over a hundred stores, and makes Italian-style gelato on a much larger scale than anyone else here. Los Angeles has it at Westfield Century City, 10250 Santa Monica Boulevard; on Sawtelle at 2008 Sawtelle Boulevard; in Marina del Rey at 4712 Admiralty Way; and on Larchmont at 141½ N Larchmont Boulevard, which opened on Friday, June 2, 2023 in the space Goorin Bros. left behind. Century City and Fashion Island in Newport Beach both came first, so Larchmont is the newer room, not the flagship. All of them run 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, with Larchmont opening at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays. It is the only name here you can plan around without checking anything.
Santa Monica, and the last window to close
Dolcenero at 2400 Main Street, Suite A3, in Ocean Park takes its cues from Florence and makes everything on site, and it holds the latest close on this list: noon to 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, noon to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The catch is the other end of the day — nothing before noon, ever. Worth ordering: the lemon sorbet, which arrives served inside a hollowed lemon, plus a ricotta and fig that shows up seasonally, an organic chocolate, and a pistachio built on Italian imports. If you are already on Main Street for dinner, this is the only counter on this list still open after most Westside kitchens have called last seating.
Practical notes
Cross-town driving is the real cost here, so pick by hour first. Before 11 a.m. your only option is Pazzo Gelato in Silver Lake. Between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Bacio di Latte is it. After 10 p.m., you are down to Bacio di Latte until 11, Dolcenero until 10:30 or 11:30, and the Spring Arcade vending machine, which is the only thing running past midnight and only on Friday and Saturday nights. Parking is easiest at Marina del Rey and hardest on Larchmont and Sunset. Every schedule above is a published listing, and small shops shorten hours on slow nights without updating anything, so confirm before a long drive. Bring cash-free expectations and patience for the tasting line.
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