Marc Flore said he inherited his love of ice cream from his father Angelo, who he described as a “full-blooded Italian,” who kept his freezer stocked with cherry vanilla ice cream year-round. Flore said he thought of his late father when he opened Angelo’s Amore in its mill location downtown at the former Bloom’n Cow space May 29.

“Amore,” Italian for love, Flore said, is fitting to use in the name of his first ice cream shop because his father’s love of ice cream made quite the impression on him as a child growing up in Londonderry.