The Best Ice Cream in Montreal
What better way to cool off on a hot summer day than with a delicious ice cream? The origins of ice cream date back to ancient times, when the Roman Emperor Nero enjoyed a sorbet-like frozen dessert made with fruit, honey and snow imported directly from the Alps!
Over time, various regions of the world have developed their own recipes, from China to the Middle East, and from Italy to the United States. Today, there is a huge variety of ice cream products with infinite flavour possibilities. Whether it’s ice cream, sorbet or gelati, most people love these delights in all their forms because they’re creamy, sweet and satisfying.
Among Montreal’s diverse gastronomic offer, the city is full of places where you can enjoy excellent artisanal ice cream. While brief, it is important to take advantage of Montreal’s beautiful summers. What better way than to offer a list of the best ice creams in town!
We also invite you to consult the list of the best vegan ice cream in Montreal.
Special mentions:
- Hoche Glacé: Located in Hochelaga, this ice cream shop offers a great variety of Italian-style ice cream, as well as several vegan options. And it’s all 100% homemade!
- Les chocolats de Chloé: Known for their divine chocolates, this address also offers frozen sweets in season (late May/early June until September). Homemade ice cream in a chocolate cone, fruit pops, double chocolate pops, and more. Lots of great options available to you!
Iconoglace
Iconoglace offers six flavours of soft ice cream, four of which are certified vegan. These flavours change from week to week, depending on product availability. Everything at Iconoglace is homemade, even the waffle cones. The slushies are made with real fruit and organic maple water, so there are no artificial ingredients! The dairy bar is open all summer long, every day from 12 to 10 pm.
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Virevent
Le Virevent is an artisanal ice cream shop in Ahuntsic located on Fleury Drive. It attracts a lot of local regulars every season, who can’t get enough of the delicious ice cream in the summer. Virevent is a family friendly address!
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Crèmerie Dalla Rose
Located in St-Henri, Dalla Rose makes some of the finest ice cream in town! You will find several different flavours of ice cream and 6 different cookies that change fairly regularly. Why cookies, you may ask? For their ice cream sandwiches, which are the specialties of the house. Choose your cookie, your ice cream, and prepare yourself for one of the best ice cream treats of the summer. The quality of the ingredients used also adds to their exceptional products.
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Crèmerie Meu Meu
The ice cream at Meu-Meu is always exceptional. We like the generous welcome of the tiny place. Each customer is served like a friend; the attentive service of the staff is part of the charm, with the evidence on the wall filled with photos of customers who have become regulars. We like the creative flavours and the homemade frozen yogurts; the quality of the product offered by this small creamery on St-Denis Street is truly impeccable.
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Pizzeria Gema
Gema may be one of Montreal’s finest pizzerias, but they also have a counter serving extraordinary soft-serve ice cream. Thanks to chef Michele Forgione’s recipe, Gema’s ice cream is now one of our favourites in town. Whether it’s vanilla or chocolate ice cream, dipped in chocolate or caramel, the experience is always heavenly.
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Les Givrés
Owners Martin and Alexandre offer one of the best artisanal ice creams in town! You may have seen it in grocery stores, but the experience is always better at the ice cream shop itself. Les Givrés now has three locations, one on de Castelnau Street East, one on Ontario Street, and one on Masson Street. We love all their delicious creations! We also highly recommend their gourmet ice cream pastries if you have an occasion to celebrate at home.
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Le Bilboquet
Le Bilboquet was founded in 1983! With more than forty ice cream varieties, the establishment is a must and an institution in the city for ice cream. The ice cream shop now has several locations allowing you to enjoy their delicious products more easily. This also helps prevent long lines to enjoy the creamery’s renowned ice creams.
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Kem CoBa
Kem CoBa—which means “Aunt 3’s ice cream” in Vietnamese—was supposedly the nickname given to Ngoc, the co-owner, by her niece. This tiny, beloved creamery offers delicious ice creams and sorbets freshly made in house. We love the quality of the products, the original flavours, and their few Asian-inspired pastries. Be warned: the line can sometimes be discouragingly long. While their products are worth the wait, we recommend visiting during the less busy hours for a more pleasant experience.
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Crèmerie Bo-Bec
Crèmerie Bo-Bec is an artisanal creamery located in the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal. The creamery near Laurier Park looks a bit old-fashioned, but it opened its doors in 1989, which adds to its charm. Here, they serve more than twenty different artisanal ice creams and traditional soft-serve ice cream. You can also buy ice cream to go at the self-service counter.
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Café San Gennaro
Café San Gennaro is on our list of the best Italian cafés in Montreal. Here, you can enjoy excellent pizza al taglio and drink very good Italian coffee. The small space with pastel colours and friendly staff also offers a nice gelati section for your cravings. The space and the flavours transport you elsewhere; the place is simply charming.
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Ca Lem
Ca Lem is a creamery near the Loyola Campus of Concordia University, in Montreal West, that makes very good ice cream. The place is welcoming, the small terrace is very nice, and the product offered is very good. With nearly 20 flavours, the place offers a choice for many tastes and even offers a flavour of the week. You will certainly find many satisfied students, and that’s a great sign.
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Dinette Nationale
Dinette Nationale is an artisanal sweet shop that opened in late 2014 on Gilford Street in the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal. While they recently moved to a beautiful space on Saint-Denis Street in Villeray, they continue to offer coffees and sweets to enjoy on the spot or to take away. On the ice cream side, they make excellent Revelos in several different flavours.
Montréal
Havre aux Glaces
Havre-aux-glaces is a superb artisanal ice cream shop that serves exquisite ice creams and sorbets! Many of their flavours vary according to the seasons. For example, in summer, the establishment offers sorbets (their specialty!) with local Quebec products, such as strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry. Throughout the year, you can enjoy their fixtures, which include their 72% chocolate, pistachio, apricot milk, and maple burnt caramel (one of our favourites!).
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Café Mollo
Café Mollo is a café and gelateria located in Point St. Charles, and has become a neighbourhood favourite. The ice cream is made right on site, with a constant rotation of flavours on offer. Everything is made with the freshest ingredients: a favourite is the green apple and mango. However, the customer favourite is the coffee ice cream from ZAB.
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Chez Popo
Chez Popo is first and foremost a place to drink good coffee, but we also go there for soft serve ice cream. The ice cream base comes from Iconoglace and Isle de Garde chef Marc-Aurèle Lussier has fun varying the flavours using local ingredients. Kids won’t be the only ones to enjoy this new addition to the neighbourhood: you can also enjoy it as an affogato. The perfect afternoon treat in the summer: cold, creamy, and caffeinated.
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Saison des pluies
This charming café located in Villeray also offers a variety of ice creams in the summer. At the back of the café, on Henri-Julien street, they transformed a garage into a beautiful ice cream counter with the help of Alphabet. You can enjoy a tasty vegan soft-serve ice cream on Saturdays and Sundays. Note that it’s cash only and the creamery opens only in June. We invite you to check their Instagram page for the official date.
Montréal
Sachère Desserts
Sachère Desserts is a pastry shop located in the village. It is an excellent address specialized in the creation of delicious cakes, as beautiful as they are good. The place is part of our list of the best pastry shops in Montreal. In addition to their wonderful cakes, Sachère Desserts also offers a delectable soft-serve ice cream – we love their twists that change regularly!
Montréal
Ripples
As soon as the summer arrives, Ripples opens its doors and customers come running. For more than 20 years now, the creamery on St-Laurent Boulevard has been offering sublime ice cream! The place offers about thirty flavours, of which our favourites include the 6X chocolate and the French vanilla. There are also sorbets, frozen yogurts, and “Blizzard”-style treats of all kinds. If you’re on the Main this summer, Ripples is a must-try. Plus, they also opened a second address in the Mile-End!
Montréal
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