The REM had technical issues on one day out of two through June, and it can’t blame winter conditions for these difficulties.
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Kate
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Kate
A heat wave is probably a good time for CultMTL to headline its best ice cream shop list.
Anyone have opinions on places with the best non-dairy sherbets?
CE
Sherbet is made with dairy, you might mean sorbet which generally contains just fruit and ice. Havre aux Glaces (Jean Talon and Atwater Markets, QdS, Ahuntsic) makes the best I’ve had.
Kate
I’m sure you’re right.
During a previous heat wave, my local butcher was selling meat stock popsicles for dogs, so I experimented with doing the same for my cat this week. Lufa sells some very nice duck broth so I got some and made some duck ice cubes and offered them to her.
It was not a success. I imagine dogs swallow them whole, but my cat gave me one puzzled look and left the scene.
Ephraim
The replies to the reviews at Iconoglace are classic. Like this one… https://maps.app.goo.gl/KPDC6fYQ2CGKz6o79
Ian
I quite like the sorbets at Ripples, Jeanne-Mance, just above Saint Viateur.
I only mention as you might not know, but because of dietary restrictions the Jewish groceries carry lots of non-dairy treats – but that’s all packaged stuff.
Kate
I sort of knew, but I don’t have any kosher groceries nearby.
But, I sort of thought “sorbet” was just French for “sherbet” – I will have to read the ingredients lists.
DeWolf
@Kate Every dog I’ve known loves playing with ice cubes, but they don’t just swallow them them whole. They lick them, chew them, knock them around like a ball, and then finally eat them before they melt. Stock ice cubes sounds like a great idea but it might require a bit more clean-up than something made with water…
I second CE’s vote for Havre aux Glaces. Really good sorbet.
jeather
I like ice cream a lot, but in this heat I’m all about sorbet which is much more refreshing, and I agree with Havre aux Glaces. That said I think most ice cream places have some sorbet, and I’ve never been disappointed by any.
Joey
I’m a big fan of the ice cream/sorbet twist that has become standard but IIRC first arrived via Kem Coba. Good on the Iconoglace people for responding to that review, though their menu is like ludicrously over-complicated. They would do well to have a flavour list circulating in the line so people could consider their options (who wants to hold up the line when you finally get to the front?).
bob
In Saint Henri there is Dalla Rose, which is excellent, if expensive. They make a corn ice cream that’s really corny. The CEO of Corn would approve. They have sorbet too.
A cat might do better with some ice that has cat treats in it, like the giant ice cubes they give to incarcerated polar bears with fish and things in them. Of course, they would be a nightmare for anyone whose floor would end up covered in soggy thawed cat treats.
Kate
I do have a tiny back yard covered in concrete flagstones (and plants in pots), so any future cat ice experiments will be made outside.
SMD
Les Givrés on De Castelnau always has 2-3 non-dairy options. I have had their pear and masala chai flavours and enjoyed them very much!
dhomas
For those living in the east, Kem Coba has a second location in Tétraultville that’s been around for a couple of years. I’ve been a few times with the kids. The lineup is much shorter than the one on Fairmount, in my experience.
Kate
I stopped in at the bakery near here that used to have an entire vertical freezer of Les Givrés sorbets and ice creams, only to find that on Sunday afternoon they had zero sorbets left, and only a few oddball ice cream flavours that had clearly been passed over. The ravages of the canicule I guess.
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Kate
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, Le Devoir, the Journal, the Gazette.The tunnel will be closed this weekend at various points. Other driving notes.
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Kate
A project to construct units of modular housing for the homeless has been axed by city hall, over the claim it’s too expensive. Two similar projects already exist in Ahuntsic and on the Hippodrome site.
Interesting sidelights in this Bluesky thread.
jeather
Hmm. What’s the biggest difference we can all think of between Outremont on one side and Ahuntsic and in an industrial park on the other side? Can’t imagine.
Ian
It’s not the nice part of Outremont, it’s the brownlands. All the land north of the tracks needs remediation. When they built the UdeM extension the first thing they did was dig out 20 foot deep pits wherever new buildings were going in. In fact they’re still working on it.
SMD
Yes, this is just across the new level crossing into Park Ex. Easier to go there than anywhere in Outremont. Outremont NIMBYism at its finest.
bob 17:24 on 2026-07-04 Permalink
It’s gotta be winter somewhere.