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Bilboquet
Categories: Food Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Food Desserts Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt, Desserts [Edit]
1311, rue Bernard OuestOutremont, QC H2V 1W1
(514) 276-0414
- Hours:
Mon-Wed 11 am - 10 pm
Thu-Sun 11 am - 12 am
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
13 reviews for Bilboquet
11 reviews in English
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Review from Rawan K.
5/18/2012 1 Check-in Here
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 Montreal, 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!!Listed in: Quenchers
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Review from Madita A.
Montréal, QC
11/28/2011
Bilboquet easily serves the best ice cream in Montreal!
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. -
Review from Emeline V.
Montréal, QC
8/19/2011
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).Listed in: Faim sans fin, Crise de foie
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Review from Anabel L.
Toronto, ON
8/31/2011
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 Montreal 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... -
Review from Khanh L.
5/31/2010
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... -
Review from Ervin S.
Montréal, QC
8/24/2011
The only reason i'm giving this a 2-star rating is the fact that you have to pay over 4$ for 1-scoop and can't have a mix of 2 flavours. Otherwise yes it's good ice-cream/sorbet but there are others who are just as good and more generous.
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Review from Claudine C.
2/21/2009 3 photos
Bilboquet is quite a trek from downtown Montreal 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.Listed in: Montreal
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Review from Aaron C.
5/17/2010
There is no sorbet like Bilboquet. After trying the many gelatos, froyos and ice-cream parlors around Long Island and NYC, coming to this quaint neighborhood (Outremont) glacier in Montreal was a wonderful experience. The queue was long, but not stressed. Just happy families on a relaxing Sunday afternoon.
We had the Trichamp (3-berries) and Passion fruit sorbets which were both incomparable!Listed in: Best in Class
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Review from Lucy W.
7/3/2010
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...Montreal- you do sorbet well :)
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Review from Kay C.
Vancouver, BC
7/1/2011
The atmosphere and location are great, but the ice cream itself is really nothing special. I've had better... from the gorcery store...
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Review from CE C.
9/13/2010
Your basic ice cream parlor, nothing extraordinary, and we even went out of the way to go here. We had the mint chocolate chip and chocolate ice cream. We've had better...
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