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The warm days have been slow to come in 2018, but we can finally feel the heat behind the spring sun now, which means scorching Montreal summer days are right around the corner.

For many of us, ice cream is the food we yearn for most to cool down, and happily Montreal has a great ice cream scene, with new shops opening up constantly. Here are my favourites, not only for quality but creativity and sheer deliciousness.

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Bo-Bec

1300 Laurier Ave. E.

Open since 1989, this family-run ice cream shop sells some of the best and homiest ice cream in Montreal. Owner Gilles Prudhomme makes my favourite old-school vanilla ice cream, but don’t stop there. Try the crème brûlée, dark chocolate mousse, kulfi and their best-seller, cookie dough. This shop reminds me of all those New England seashore ice cream parlours that sell delicious thick-’n-rich ice cream with up to 75 flavours in rotation. Expect lineups on hot nights at this Plateau favourite.