Kem CoBa

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"In Montréal I sampled Kem Coba’s inventive ice cream flavors, including a memorable cardamom‑orange variety that demonstrates the city’s playful take on frozen treats." - AFAR

Best Ice Cream Shops in Montreal | Eater Montreal

"The line outside this seasonal Mile End gem practically snakes across the street to Wilensky’s. Featured soft serve twists are far from ordinary: Try the caramel-pear, pandan, or coconut-strawberry — or get a scoop of the iconic salted butter flavour." - Valerie Silva

"Summertime in Montreal brings with it all sorts of reasons to celebrate, and one of the main ones is the re-opening of the city’s ice cream parlors. This particular one on Rue Fairmount is easily the city’s most sophisticated ice cream shop, with a Japanese-inflected creative twist on the flavors that’s all their own. Every ice cream they serve is made in-house, and their signature cone is a soft ice-cream and sorbet swirl. Past combos have included sour cherry sorbet and almond milk ice cream, coconut ice cream and orange sorbet, mango sorbet and dulce de leche ice cream… yum. The homemade pastries and sweets on the counter are also a reason to visit."

Ice Creamery Kem Coba Adds A Surprise Second Location Out East | Eater Montreal

"On Fairmount, right next to the bagel store, the original Kem Coba — founded in 2010 by Ngoc Phan and Vincent Beck — has become arguably Montreal’s most iconic ice creamery over seven seasons. Phan, an ITHQ-trained pastry chef who cut her teeth at the now-defunct Gascogne, and Beck, a pastry chef-turned-interior designer from France who has since returned to desserts, are behind its extremely photogenic soft-serve cones (often offered as two-tone swirls) and by-the-scoop flavours ranging from salted butter to adventurous fruits such as soursop, pandan, lychee, and hibiscus; the shop is known for drawing extensive (but fast-moving) line-ups — so much so that an anonymous Twitter account was created to track wait times — and it reopens for the season on April 27." - Tim Forster

Really popular ice cream spot. Get their salted butter (bestseller, close to a butterscotch flavour but really light), a fruit sorbet, and then 1 plain sesame bagel from Fairmount Bagels next door. Eat ice cream on bagel like butter and jam