Eat
KaritonSorbetes.
Ube on Leeds. Scoop it before the line.
Location
What people get wrong
50 Leeds. Weekday start is 2pm on 2026 aggregators. House site was 404. Instagram @karitongelato.au. No shop phone we trust. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Kariton Sorbetes known for?
Kariton Sorbetes is known for small-batch Filipino gelato on Leeds: ube, keso, a handheld freezer, a pavement queue, a cart that grew a brick door.
You walk out of Footscray station toward the market, then Leeds. 50 is the gelato glass on the white two-storey. Inside it is faded pastel, a metal arch, rattan, Gippsland Jersey dairy. Broadsheet, updated 27 November 2024, still names Rivera and Duong and still sends the pin here. Dani Valent's 18 July 2025 crawl came back for Ube Halaytime, a YemaBon, a Pandamington and a ChamTop. You sit because a scoop does not survive a hot car, and because Sunday noon on Leeds is how this suburb still does dessert when the market hall is locked. The pavement is the dining room. Stay for the purple one while the cabinet still holds it. A weekday before 2pm is a walk past glass.
The brand started in lockdown, tubs out the door, then a shop. Seasoned Traveller dated the opening to Saturday 22 January 2022. The glass still carries ESTD. 2020, the delivery year, not the brick year. SBS printed that they grew up in the west and wanted the cart to travel. It did. This listing is 50 Leeds only. You came for this cabinet, not for a later shop in another suburb.
Instagram @karitongelato.au. No public shop phone we trust. English at the counter. You need a scoop, not a dead Squarespace. You sit because ube still melts on Leeds in a way a tub in a hot car will not: pastel, a metal arch, a cabinet that only exists after 2pm on a weekday. The cart grew this door. You came for this glass, this purple scoop, this pavement.
What should you order at Kariton Sorbetes?
You should order the purple one if that is why you walked, then decide whether the sitting still wants a handheld or a bun.
Broadsheet still prints ube halaya: purple-yam gelato, ube jam, caramelised coconut curds. SBS, February 2022, added preserved blackberry and called the curds latik. Rivera told SBS non-Filipinos walk in and ask for the purple stuff without the word. Ask what the cabinet is holding. A 2024 line is not tonight's insert.
Buko pandan is coconut and pandan with jelly and toasted rice flakes. Leche flan is the Filipino creme caramel, scooped. Keso is bourbon-vanilla, roasted cashews, cheddar, crushed SkyFlakes. The handhelds are the Australian ice-cream joke done with a Filipino pantry: YemaBon, Pandamington, ChamTop on Valent's July 2025 card. Scoop in a Breadtop milk bun if you wanted the bread Rivera's father ate ice cream between. About ten churned flavours. Ask.
Eat it on the footpath. A YemaBon in a hot car is how you turn a sitting into homework. Stay long enough to taste the ube on its own terms. Weekend late is the queue. Weekday before 2pm is a shutter if the 2026 aggregators are honest. Ask what the handheld freezer still holds. A 2024 flavour list is not tonight's insert. Stay for the bun if Rivera's bread joke is still on. This is an afternoon cabinet. Behave like that is true.
Hours, payment and queues at Kariton Sorbetes
Quoted hours from Wanderlog and opening-hours.ninja, updated 3 July 2026: Monday to Thursday 2pm to 9pm, Friday and Saturday 12pm to 10pm, Sunday 12pm to 9pm. Instagram @karitongelato.au. Last checked 2026-09-21. Glance at the glass.
Walk-in. There is no booking for a cone. Cards are normal. HappyCow still prints weekday noon. The house site was 404. We put that fight in the hours note. Believe Instagram, then the door.
Sunday this door, on the clocks we trust, still scoops at noon. Monday it opens at 2pm. Do not invent a breakfast gelato. Weekend late is when the pavement is a line. A dead Squarespace is not a clock. Instagram, then the glass. The queue on Leeds is the room after the first scoop. Stay for that scoop.
How do you get to Kariton Sorbetes in Footscray?
You get to Kariton Sorbetes by walking Leeds from Footscray station toward the market, to 50, the gelato glass, an afternoon scoop shop, not a market stall and not a live sandwich bar.
Read the red circle on the glass. 50. You are on Leeds. Irving deck is the market park around the corner. Eat on the footpath or take the tub. Do not hunt a Chinatown pin and call it this listing. Stay for the scoop on the pavement. The glass is the lock. You came for this cabinet.
This is an afternoon and evening door on weekdays. Plan the 2pm weekday start. Sunday noon is allowed. Monday morning is not. Cold on the fingers is how you know you came to the right cabinet. You walked Leeds, not a Chinatown pin and not a Glen Waverley later shop. 50 is the lock. Stay long enough to finish the ube on the footpath. Then walk the market block while it is still cold. The scoop is the sitting. You came for this cart that grew a door.
What do people mix up about Kariton Sorbetes?
They arrive at noon on a weekday, or they trust a dead website, and they miss the Leeds cabinet that opens at 2.
- 50 Leeds Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only. Instagram @karitongelato.au.
- Mon-Thu 2pm-9pm. Fri-Sat 12pm-10pm. Sun 12pm-9pm on 2026 aggregators.
- House site was 404. No shop phone we trust.
- Ube, keso, YemaBon, bun. Confirm the glass.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Kariton Sorbetes?
- Kariton Sorbetes is at 50 Leeds Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station is the nearest train. It is the original shop. Later rooms are not this listing.
- What are Kariton Sorbetes hours?
- Monday to Thursday 2pm-9pm, Friday and Saturday 12pm-10pm, Sunday 12pm-9pm on Wanderlog and opening-hours.ninja, updated 3 July 2026. HappyCow prints weekday noon. Instagram @karitongelato.au. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- What should I order at Kariton Sorbetes?
- Ube halaya if you wanted the purple yam. Keso if you wanted cheddar and SkyFlakes. A YemaBon if the handheld freezer is stocked. Scoop in a milk bun if you wanted the bread. Ask what has sold.
- Does Kariton Sorbetes open weekday mornings?
- Not on the 2026 aggregator cards. Weekdays start at 2pm. Friday and Sunday can start at noon. Confirm Instagram and the glass.
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