Cold Stone Creamery

Did Coldstone have more cred before it started merging with Tim Horton’s locations? Somehow, for me: yes, yes it did.
This place is always bopping: after-​school kids, adorable Greek retirees sitting around a table with, well… other adorable Greek retirees, random people like me vacillating between a Timbit and some ice cream.
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I opt for ice cream, especially if it’s May — September. And the last three times I’ve gone I haven’t finished my cup. Third time not the charm, I guess.
I don’t know why I’m so crankypants: it’s not like I don’t recognize that this is a chain of ice cream places. Does ice cream made to withstand mashing against a stone slab have a different composition? Because as it melts it starts to feel elastic and glutinous: sweet and goopy, not creamy. The rest of the process tastes standard issue (flavoured saccharine-​sweet sauces, artificially doctored cubes of cookie «dough») in a way that might not appeal to all, but that I occasionally like (I’m a child of 1980s packaged snacks!). It’s the ice cream that turns me off.
The layout of the store isn’t the best, and people are routinely confused about whether they’re in the coffee-​and-​donuts or the waffle-​cones-​and-​mix-​ins line. As a result, my visits here are never the most efficient.
Unilocal note: I’ve bought ice cream cakes from this location before (a good range of flavours and sizes pre-​made in the cooler by the counter) with great success. Will do again, likely bypassing the cup of ice cream.

Yuck. Ice cream is already too sweet before you get the toppings, chocolate syrup and what have you added in. It’s part of the tim hortons

I really like Cold Stone, but this is a terrible location.
Although it’s a combination Cold Stone and Tim Horton’s, it only seems to be staffed by the latter. When my significant other asked for one of the common ice cream creations, the first thing the cashier said was «what? you want ice cream?!» in a tone that suggested it were 20 below zero and a news report that ice cream causes cancer and impotence had just been published. She then shrugged and looked for someone to make it, because SHE DIDN’T KNOW HOW.
Let’s pause here and realize we’re talking about combining ice cream, cookies and chocolate sauce together. Rocket science this is not.
To continue, she asked not one but TWO different employees who also had no idea how to make the creation (or even knew what it was, despite being highlighted on a giant LCD screen behind their heads). Finally the original cashier succumbed and made it herself.
Surprisingly, it didn’t suck. Except that it’s not surprising at all, since it’s just FRIGGIN’ ICE CREAM.
Judging from the others in line, and the smoothness of their orders, I can only deduce this is a better Tim Horton’s that it is a Cold Stone.

First time trying Cold Stone Creamery was at this location. They have «integrated» some Tim Hortons across Toronto to include this ice cream chain. It was good, but I experienced better. The good thing about this ice cream is that it is creamy, not the chunky type. I would recommend, but not my fav.

You know the classic Simpsons gag? The one where Homer utters «Mmmmmmm…*something*» as drool drips down his chin and his eyes glaze over. I think I had that same reaction in this Coldstone during a late-​night jaunt with friends. I don’t know, I might have blacked out. I just remember the sugary, orgasmic bliss that I was shovelling in to my mouth at light speed (first record ever attempted outside a lab or super-​collider). I had the Cake Batter Delux and a swipe of the icing off my friend’s Sweet Cream. I didn’t know that red velvet could be elevated to this level. The icing was that perfectly artificial kind, the type Riverdale Moms turn their noses up at as they serve their children quinoa and organic yams. The cake was pretty standard frozen fare, the same kind you’d expect from a Deep n’ Delicious cake and for the sake of sounding clichéd, the chocolate cup wrapped it all up.
Now excuse while I hunt for couch change to finance my next half dozen which I may or may not parcel out over several days.

Hello Coldstone… where the heck have YOU been?!?
This place is great.
My friend took me here last night. It’s the newest sister-​chain of Timmy’s.
My friend RAVES about the Cake n’ Shake Milkshake and it’s DELICIOUS!
I will have to go back and try those cupcakes the previous Unilocaler raved about: P

Oh my good God. Stop the press! I have to update my review with a better rating because I just discovered the Cold Stone Creamery CUPCAKES.
Picture a chocolate cup, filled with cake and chocolate sundae sauce, topped with a scoop of cake batter flavoured ice cream, topped with icing and sprinkles. It is absolutely delicious, and not as messy as it sounds.
In fact, I am going to add a picture of the cupcakes here just so you can fully understand my excitement. My birthday is in a few weeks and I’ve requested these instead of cake.
So, Cold Stone, you just sealed the deal. I’ll be back time and time again. I guess I should look into getting a gym membership.