Reviews describe Hoche Glacé as a beloved neighborhood ice cream spot with a wide variety of flavors and a strong focus on quality ingredients, including standout vegan and dairy free options that many say rival traditional dairy in taste and texture. The menu ranges from classic creamy scoops to sorbet and vegan soft serve, with favorites such as matcha pistachio, pistachio matcha tourbillon, apple crumble tourbillon, tiramisu tourbillon, and chocolate dips, and several tasters note generous portions and creative textures. While the ambiance is praised as cozy and welcoming with a pleasant sit down area, prices are frequently noted as high and some reviewers feel portions or value could be better, especially for certain tourbillons and toppings. Service is repeatedly described as friendly and patient, contributing to a strong neighborhood vibe, though a few visits report long lines, busy crowds, or occasional slow service. The store is seen as a destination for dairy free dessert lovers and to stroll around Hochelaga, with many recommending returning to try more flavors and to sample new flavors. Overall Hoche Glacé emerges as a top choice for ice cream in Montreal with a broad appeal to vegans and non vegans alike, but potential visitors should be prepared for peak time queues and higher prices relative to other spots.
Wonderful selection of ice creams & sorbet. Obviously top quality ingredients. Friendly staff. When my partner's strawberry ice cream fell off the cone outside at the picnic table, one of the women at the next table went in & told staff. One of the servers brought out a new ice cream! Formidable!
Great selection of ice cream. Great options for dairy free (I guess vegan if you suppose) ice cream, that actually taste great. Went there 2 times, both times the dairy free options were almost indistinguishable to the regular ones.
Oct 11, 2025
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Cozy environment, server is very nice & patient. Although the price is a bit at a higher end but the quality is a top notch!! Will come again in the future. We love matcha pistachios ice cream! The creamy of the ice cream & bunch of pistachios inside are amazing❤?
Delicious & great quality! I paid $10.35 for this. It's a good size, but I am not sure I would pay $11 for this. I would definitely come again & try their dipped ice cream cones!
Top notch ice cream place, with a nice little place to sit 👈, Thanks 👌...
Glacier de premier ordre, avec un petit coin sympa pour s'asseoir 👈, Merci 👌...
I'm on a quest to find the very best ice cream in Montreal & suburbs I tried quite a bit on different places that are well known & I keep coming back to you Hoche Glacé 💞 so so in love with your Tiramisu Tourbillon & Oreo Rasberry . I'm coming back this week for your Apple crumble can't wait delicious 😋 Regards Gina
Aug 10, 2025
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The matcha & pistachio Tourbillon, how can I even describe it? Green upon green, lusciously sweet, emerald, nutty dust rolling over the frosted body as snow on a mountain top. A delicate crunch of pistachio punctuating the soft cold, like gently stepping on a rock in a riverbed (you will need to really like pistachio & very sweet things for your experience to be this poetic). The apple crumble ice cream was equally unique & delicious: [insert poem here].
A lovely location with great staff, & bien sûr, des glaces incroyables (obviously). Although as some other reviewers have commented, the prices are a bit too steep.
Pistachio matcha tourbillion was quite literally just vanilla soft ice cream with a weird amount of matcha powder & then whole pistachios…(i.e. you could make this at home & it would taste the same🤩🤩) not really a standout for me at $11+. Very aesthetic & looks great in pictures but the flavour really isn't anything special.
Absolutely delicious ice cream & chocolate dip! I was visiting from Ontario a month ago & stumbled upon this place after seeing the Biodome with my son, who also really enjoyed his cone. Friendly staff too. I hope to return some day!
Love that you can get the equivalent of a dairy cream blizzard but with vegan softserve & gluten free brownie chunks. I asked if they could do a skor & brownie combo & it was great. I'm not a big vanilla ice-cream fan so I wish I had asked for the chocolate soft serve instead but with all the toppings it was still a treat.
