Bilboquet

Good place for ice cream. It’s next to my house so i’ve been a few times. Love their mango sorbet.

There are sadly not enough ice cream parlours in Montréal!!! Ice cream and sorbets are pretty delicious here, I personally love the Red Velvet Cake flavour :-) Usually go after nice brunch and a walk in the area for a pleasant Sunday

Beau choix de saveurs, crèmes glacées goûteuses! À réessayer pour découvrir d’autres saveurs!

This place is a historical gem of Outremont! It has been a tradition in my family to eat ice cream here since i was a toddler. And not once have i been dissatisfied. The quality is the best in its class, the flavours are original and they are constantly adding new creations. Basically hands down the best ice cream on the planet! Personal favourite RED VELVET!!!

We are long term customers of the Westmount location. When we came to the Bernard location with our South American guests we were intentionally ignored and not served. The service rep, who said his name was Elvis was insulting. Probably because we were speaking English and Spanish; they don’t speak French on Argentina. We left disgusted and I felt ashamed about my home town. If you speak English do not go to this location!

Tire d’érable… on the top of my best ice cream list!!!

My very pregnant best friend, whom I’m visiting here in Montréal, is having a bit of an ice-​cream phase. She asked that we pay a visit to her favorite ice-​cream place, and I can see why she loves it. The staff are super friendly and helpful. But most importantly, their ice cream and sorbets taste amazing — especially the mango sorbet, and the red velvet ice cream (ice cream meets cream cheese frosting with just a hint of lemon, and chunks of red velvet cake). Outstanding!

this place confused the hell out of me despite having very good ice cream and sorbet. why the confusion? you have to pay first and then, choose whatever flavor you want. how is one supposed to know that?!?
anyway, very good offering and some of the tastiest flavors. i personally enjoyed their lemonade float. yes, a lemonade float! probably the best deal out there as you can have 2 different scoops (or is it 3?) in your lemonade. litchi is pretty good as well as their vanilla raspberry one. combined together with the lemonade and you’re in for an awesome treat.
price wise, they are the priciest in town, minus the italian places.
they only take cash but there’s an atm machine inside. plenty of seating as well as a terrace to relax and enjoy.

Delicious ice creams and sorbets! I am a sorbet type of girl, and I would definitely recommend the litchi or blueberry sorbet. I usually ask for a small scoop of both :)
They have a couple of tables and benches outside. It’s a perfect place to go for a quick fresh dessert in the summer evenings.

This is a review for the shop on Laurier– a+! So cute, clean and the ice cream is amazing. I’ve tried the Pistache and Carameleé, both super delicious!

Seulement 4 etoiles a cause du prix! Si non c’est succulent, les cremes glaces comme les sorbets! Meilleur sorbet a la framboise au monde et choco-​orange est tres reussis. Dans le style plus caramel le brouhaha est imbatable. L’ete il y a souvent une file d’attente mais ca passé tres vite, pas lieu de s’inquieter.

Definitely a Montréal destination but the line moves fast so don’t worry if you see it stretching out the door! The ice cream is absolutely luscious. There are no crazy flavours, just honest simplicity and down home deliciousness. A summer tradition for me!

Best ice cream in all of Canada! I always get the mini cause it is small but just perfect. Love the vanilla-​rasberry cake and ice cream! So good!

Best sorbet and ice cream in town!!!

Bilboquet one of the top 5 things about summer here in Montréal. Their sorbets are out of this world, their sugar cones are total yum and their service is top notch. I never eat at the very few tables they have, as I prefer to walk to one of the local parks and sit under a big leafy tree while I inhale my ice cream (vanille framboise, YAY!) Everything is creamy, tasty and the shop itself is oh so cute.

Who doesn’t love ice cream?
Their sorbets are my favourite, namely framboise (raspberry)! All of their flavours are succulent, rich, mouth-​watering, satisfying, and homemade. The service is great, friendly, and welcoming. When you walk in, you get an old school feel of Montréal, it doesn’t come off generic at all. I went on an especially warm-​almost-​summer day after venturing along Bernard street, and it hit the spot.
PS. They even have sorbet/​ice cream macarons and cakes, HOW COOL IS THAT!

Certainement une de mes adresses favorites à Montréal. Le Bilboquet produit des glaces succulentes aux parfums multiples. La semaine dernière j’y ai fait un arrêt en passant pour y savourer la glacé saisonnière à l’érable avec tire d’érable… une expérience intense qu’il vaut mieux né pas répéter trop souvent si vous compter les calories! Accompagné d’un espresso bien serré, il n’y a pas mieux!
La boutique d’Outremont (il y a quelques autres adresses dans la région de Montréal) vous propose également des paninis et salades.
Une véritable institution. Il y a plusieurs années que nous achetons notre bûche de Noël (aux sorbets) ici… un succès assuré pour les invités!

Bilboquet easily serves the best ice cream in Montréal!
I love the fruit sorbets, especially mango.
The store has a charming old time feel, and the staff snack on their own ice cream during break — need I say more?
There are only few tables to sit, but there is a nice little parc right across the street. So, buy your ice cream cone to go, and take a stroll through beautiful Outremont! It is well worth the trip.

I agree witih Emeline V. who reviewed before me. I am also surprised this place isn’t rated higher. My sister feels the same way. She’s a Montréal native in that my sister first moved there from Vancouver in 1995. My sister has also LOVED ice cream since she was about 5. It only makes sense then that she LOVES Bilobquet.
Me and ice cream — it’s complicated. I’m very, very particular. Well, I’m particular in general. I don’t really like ice cream but I will enjoy certain flavours from certain places.
For Bilboquet I make exceptions. Their maple ice cream is heavenly. The flavours change at the chef’s direction and are made with rich, sweet, fresh and seasonal ingredients. Should they have the maple, get it.
Get yours while it’s still hot outside…

I am amazed to see that this place isn’t rated higher.
Maybe I am biased: to me Bilboquet will alaways have the taste of childhood. My school was right nearby and on the last week of school, you culd count on ONE thing: a teacher, at least one, would take us to Bilboquet. Still now, around May/​June you can little kids marching screaming «BILBOQUET, BILBOQUET!».
Oh, of course, there will always be an American sod to taste the most generic flavor and then complain that they have tasted better ice cream. The one from the supermarket freezer maybe has a more comforting, chemical taste or is it a more heavy mish-​mash of everything (gummy bears and chocolate chips) that is labelled as the «flavour»?
Bilboquet ice cream is homemade and is full-​on 35% cream. The texture is refined and the taste is pure and dense.
My usual is mango and Raspberry but alot of my friends swear and Rhum-​raisins and the King-​Kong. You’d have to try them all for yourself! And don’t hesitate to take the fruit flavors, they are just as satisfying and delicious as the denser, more usual ones.
I am surprised to see no one mentionned their delicious cakes! They’re huge and very reasonably priced: a cake for 10 – 12 people will cost you about 30 – 35 $.
As far as ice cream goes: a mini ball will cost you 2,60 $, a regular one 3,60 $ («raisonnable»), two will be about 4,45 $ («généreux»), three would be about 6 $ and something. A cone will cost you 30 cents extra will a bowl would be 5 cents (if anything).

Si vous aimez la crème glacée, et tout le monde aime la crème glacée de toute manière, vous allez adorer cette crèmerie pas comme les autres. En effet, la crème glacée est ici respecté à sa juste valeur gastronomique, et le résultat n’a rien à voir avec les glaces que vous avez pu vous procurer dans les chaînes comme Ben and Jerry’s, qui font pourtant selon moi de très bonnes crèmes glacées. L’établissement offre une palette de saveurs éclectique, à travers laquelle je peux difficilement guider qui ce soit, puisque je n’ai essayé qu’un parfum, soit Choco-​Orange, qui goûtait véritablement le chocolat noir et l’orange… Du reste, tous les parfums font saliver et cela me surprendrais qu’on puisse en trouver des décevants. L’établissement offre également des sorbets, des gâteaux et même des bûche de Noël durant le temps des fêtes.

Great little shop in a cute neighborhood north of downtown– long list of sorbet flavors, some of which I did not recognize (What’s «lulo»? Apparently, it’s a South American fruit, like a kiwi in flavor). I had the pear sorbet– smooth, sweet and fragrant! You go in, line up, pay for the size you would like (and if you want a cone or dish), and move on down the line to choose your flavor. If there wasn’t such a long line, I would have asked for more tasting samples, but I wasn’t willing to risk the glare of those waiting for their sorbets. So far, this is my second sorbet shop visit in 2 days… Montréal– you do sorbet well :)

What can i say… it’s just sorbet right?
not quite.
Bilboquet is just different compared to all the other sorbet’s i’ve tried.
The flavors are quite refined and the texture is soft and silky, I’d even say creamy, for a lack of a better word.
The lychee flavor does taste a bit icy, but all the other flavors are silky.
My favorite is pear, sweet, fragrant, just a hint of tang. It’s like eating the perfect pear everytime.
Coconut is the creamiest of the flavors, it’s very nice although it could get quite rich if you eat more than one scoop. But it is very intense coconut flavor it’s a nice hit if you like coconut.
Mango is also a nice flavor, sweet with a mild touch of tanginess, and again smooth and silky.
Mango, pear and coconut are my favorites, haven’t gotten around to trying the other flavors… yet.
It’s one of my favorite things to do in mtl, on a summer night, it’s around 11:30PM and you want to go out for a stroll… just line up and get a scoop it just hits the spot… you know what I’m talking about…

Bilboquet is quite a trek from downtown Montréal at 9pm on a Sunday night and you’re taking public transport… nestled along a tree-​lined street in a very residential neighborhood, it came highly recommended by co-​diner at Le Petit Moulinsart.
It is one of those utterly charming stores – painted in a vibrant but soothing colours of white and aqua, high-​ceilinged, decorated with all sorts of charming tsotskes and illustrations, full of that wonderful smell of sweet and cooking waffle.
Unfortunately, their ice cream is not great — the pistachio I chose tasted a bit too artificial; the boy’s chocolate and coffee only somewhat better.
San Francisco’s Bi-​Rite & Humphry Slocombe have ruined us.