Cold Comfort Ice Cream — Restaurant in Victoria

I almost always get a Cold Comfort ice cream cake for my birthday. I see a lot of people complaining about the price of their ice cream, which I don't understand. Cold Comfort creates top quality products from organic, local ingredients, and maintain such a high level of integrity regarding this that I'm honestly surprised they don't charge more. For a large cake I paid $60 and the 7 people at the dinner table could barely finish half of it. I have been snacking on it for days since and am so happy to have leftovers. I don't want it to end!

I requested a mint chocolate cake, but understandably they make their cakes with whatever they have spinning at the time (obviously they can't make 20+ litres of a certain flavour just because ONE person requested it). Because of this I said I'd be happy with salted caramel as well. Cold Comfort far surpassed my dreams for my cake and did a layer of vanilla bean, then a layer of salty caramel sauce, then a layer of mint with chocolate cookie pieces, then a layer of fudge sauce, and finally a layer of caramel topped with burnt sugar and more fudge. Cookie pieces were distributed generously throughout the entire cake. I was extremely impressed.

To Autumn and her team at Cold Comfort, I wanted to thank you for the AMAZING ice cream cake. It was literally the best thing I have ever tasted and such a beautiful work of art. I am so grateful for the thought and time you obviously put into it, we were all extremely wide-eyed and constantly surprised by the incredible flavours and textures and EVERYTHING while we devoured it!

Cold Comfort makes Victoria a lot better.

p.s. For some reason I'm signed in to my friend Tanya's account and I can't figure out how to change it ... this review was actually from Bret, a loyal and extremely satisfied Cold...

Quaint, one of-a-kind, bright, hip vibe walk-up 'n take out serving unique homemade gf, vegan, dairy free and no-worries ice cream and ice cream sandwiches. We ordered Cherry Godmother and Chock o'clock. $12.75 for a pint with half pints available but if you're going to go, why not go all-in. The Chock O 'Clock is worth raving about; creamy, light chocolate and you'd think a pint might get boring because there's nothing else in this dairy delight but it is so smooth, creamy and light milk chocolatey that you wish they had a wooden shovel instead of a wooden micro spoon. The Cherry Godmother was a darker, bitter chocolate with tart cherry surprise. It wasn't quite my taste but it might be someone else's. This business is on the right track with innovative flavours and quality, creamy homemade ice cream. What's missing in my stars-information. I stood reading their homey-feels chalkboard menu and it doesn't do them justice. Great names but few descriptions. I didn't even know they had a donut stuffed with ice cream until I checked out their website later. You need better onsite marketing Can Canteen. .. make your board much larger, add photos and descriptions and your customers will feel like they know what they're getting instead of don't know what they're missing. This would be a cute informal summer date pit stop. It's a parking lot window with limited seating so buy a pint or a half pint and take it to the beach or a park. The heat bounces off the asphalt during a heat dome. So, despite a few tweaks, this little creamery has got the right idea. I would like to give it more stars for the food itself but destinations are about the whole deal-location, experience, accessibility, vibe.... That said, I wouldn't wish for bigger spoons if the ice cream weren't...

Very reluctant and awkward service! :S You're made to feel guilty for asking for a taste of the ice cream! No ice cream place I've ever been to has discouraged tasting. It makes you feel quite unwelcome.

They make some awesome sounding flavours of ice cream, but from a customer's standpoint, you don't want to pay $5-$12 for your ice cream (depending on what you get) only to find that you don't like it!

And yea, it's quite pricey. $5 for a cup, $6 for an ice cream sandwich. $12 for a pint. (It's $9 for a pint at rain or shine in Vancouver for comparison.)

I had the rosemary/cherry ice cream, which was nice, but not something that would bring me back to this place. Another friend got a blackberry flavour and that was pretty good, but not spectacular or deserving of 5 stars.

My friend was disappointed in his chocolate ice cream sandwich, (surprise surprise, he couldn't taste that flavour before buying it). And a few of us found some of the flavours to be pretty bland despite enticing ingredients (like Hoyne's Dark Matter beer).

In sum, this place won't make you feel at home, and the flavours are exotic but underwhelming, especially for the price. I hope they just fix they're customer service and keep trying out new flavours to improve their ice cream. I really like buying from small local places over bigger,...