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The Cream Brewery
Category: Food Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt [Edit]
Dufferin Mall900 Dufferin Street
Suite 431
Toronto, ON M6H 4B1
Neighbourhood: Brockton Village
(647) 338-6885
4 reviews for The Cream Brewery
4 reviews in English
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Review from Laura C.
Toronto, ON
Customized flash frozen ice cream, made fresh in front you.
You choose your milk percentage (Traditional 10%, Super Premium 17%, Gelato 6%, Yogurt 0.5% and Sorbetto 0%), choose your basic flavouring, and choose your mix-ins. All this gets a blast of liquid nitrogen and ta-dah! instant ice cream.
Does it taste really that different? It's fresh and all natural for sure. But it's a little gimmicky. But their price point is not too bad ($3.09 for a small cup, $4.78 for medium and $5.19 for a large,), would gladly go for this rather than BR.
However, the wait time for this I would say is about 5 mins, if there is no line up. With one other group in line, it was about 10 mins before we got ours. I found that the staff here was tired (around 4pm) and she seemed a little out of it and confused sometimes. She prepares the recipe in a bowl, and lines up for the 'chef' to flash freeze while constantly mixing in the stuffs. He also tastes each one before mixing it in. It looked like hard work.
I wanted to get their Matcha Green Tea with Strawberries. But they were out of green tea. I switched it to Cappucino, and she talked me out of added strawberries for some reason. I thought this was supposed to be customized.
They say that their operation is short staffed, but at the same time, I don't know how you can add another person in that booth or what they would do. She takes the orders, he mixes (there was only one nitrogen tank), and another girl washes things.
There are a lot of fixings, but its not displayed (would be nice) and sort of strewn along the counter.
It's a good idea, I don't know how financially sustainable it will be compared to the effort required. Also, their menu needs to be a bit bigger, so it's easier for people to pick. At the same time, their website boasts pre-made creations but they are not posted on the menu at their booth.
Also a lot of the ingredients on the website, don't match up with what I saw.
Its tucked away near the No Frills of Dufferin mall. Yes, It competes with the Baskin and Robbins, and makes me wonder why they didn't put their location closer to them. Given, a choice, I'd wait an extra few minutes for this. Maybe they can't handle the traffic. But, as it turns out this is a soft launch, and I guess they are testing.
I wonder if they would do a Soy Milk base. That would be nice.
I'll be interested to see how this goes. Would have been better to open in the summer. -
Review from Chris P.
1/23/2012 1 photo
Well these guys didn't last long. Went by yesterday and their booth is abandoned.
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Review from Ada T.
Toronto, ON
12/4/2011
Very interesting concept. Icecream was great. Got the coconut flavour and it was delicious. However, we ordered it with chocolate almonds and it was mixed in with the icecream whole. It was way too big and crunchy and took away from the flavour. Was thinking it would be crushed up but wasn't. Also, the line up and service was too slow. But to their benefit, apparently they were short staffed by 2 people (they had a company party the night before) and that's why it was so slow. The staff were very nice and friendly. Prices were a little steep
Listed in: Bloordale / Bloorcourt
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Review from Jia L.
Toronto, ON
11/30/2011
Flash-frozen ice cream at Dufferin mall! At first I thought the flash freezing with a giant tank of liquid nitrogen was only for show. But, then, I tasted the ice cream. It was delicious! I guess flash freezing allows for fewer ingredients and super fresh ice cream. My friend had the toasted marshmallow flavour. The marshmallows are torched right there in front of you and mixed into the ice cream (fat content of your choosing). I had one shot of espresso mixed in with 12% (?) milk fat cream. Sooooooo tasty.
