Rooster’s Ice Cream Bar

This place is a real gem! Reminds me of Henry’s place in Waikiki.
Had the lavender and lemon ice cream and it was super delicious. Nice, rich flavour with real pieces of lavender. Also tried the whiskey hazelnut and mango swirl. They have a very unique assortment of flavours and everything is made in house.
It’s not as polished as earnest or rain or shine but the flavour combos are better. This is my new go to ice cream place!

Delicious Cinnamon Chai ice cream tonight.
Friendly, knowledgeable server. Other customers laughing and smiling.
Located on East Broadway just a few steps west of Glen Drive, this ice cream parlour serves up fresh-​tasting, creamy-​textured yummy ice cream.
I love this place, and it’s perfectly situated closed to my home so I can run home with my ice cream and eat it while sitting in my favourite chair! Cool!

Finally tried Rooster’s Ice Cream as it is just around the corner, and I will definitely be back to try more of their unique and delicious flavours. The ice cream was dense and creamy and tasted very high quality. The lady at the counter was generous with samples and I tried the lemon, matcha, whiskey hazelnut, and dark chocolate. In the end I got a scoop of black sesame honey which was excellent and a pint of dark chocolate/​dark coffee toffee to go.
The décor is far from the slick interiors of Earnest or Rain or Shine, but the quality of the product and unique flavours definitely makes Rooster’s the trip.

I LOVE THIS PLACE! Literally my favourite ice cream shop ever. I stumbled by on a whim, and I’ve made it my regular place. I personally enjoy this place much more than Earnest and Rain or Shine. It’s much more flavourful than them and have an array of the classical flavours (their London Fog is the BEST I’ve ever had). And it’s owned by the kindest, most sweetest ladies that give the best customer service. They’re so passionate about making ice cream, and are so excited to share their new flavours with me whenever I arrive.
My personal favourite is Lemon Poppyseed. Give this place a try, you’re absolutely going to love it!

I live in the area so I’ve continued to come here in the months since it’s opened. They continue to experiment and come out with good ice cream flavours, no complaints here. It’s good stuff.

Drove by a few times and have had it on the bucket list for a month or so now, so I finally got around to it. Like others have said, the chips threw me off. I don’t know if they’re affiliated or if the savory sweet of chips and ice cream go well together… but it seemed out of place. I will agree with others that not having homemade waffle cones is a bit sad because it goes hand in hand with homemade delicious ice cream. I didn’t like the layout and would prefer a more aesthetic setup with a row of ice cream to see or at least in front of us. They also need to do a straight forward stupid person board with all the flavors listed. Having them on small individual chalk boards and some on the big one was a tad distracting and confusing. For a second I thought the individual boards were the only ones available that night.
The server was great. She happily let me try a lot of flavors and some were great and one was a complete letdown.
— mango raspberry was delicious!
— lime with lavender was not my favorite as the lavender was overwhelming to me (then again I haaaaaaaate lavender so any amount is too much).
— cookie was great
— mint cookie was significantly better because who doesn’t love mint?
— the peppermint chip was my least favorite. They should acrap it or take it back to the drawing board.
— matcha was so good
I love the scoop sizes. They used to be this big at Rain or Shine until they started skimping. I also enjoyed the array of flavors they offer. My one major complaint is the ice crystals. I don’t know if it’s a refrigeration problem or what but there shouldn’t be ice crystals in ice cream stores. I expect them in ice cream in my freezer sometimes but not from a store.
I’d happily go back for a few flavors I had and try some new ones next time.
I’m not a fan of Ernest so I’ll say Rooster is better in my books. I’m still deciding if it’s better than Rain or Shine or if I’m feeling a bit burned by the never truly full pints there and the smaller scoops each subsequent visit. But I’ll be back here because my taste buds deserve more samples.

Friendly service. Bare bones décor, which I don’t mind.
The ice cream itself is good, but didn’t seem all that special. I wonder if it’s because of the décor though. And the way they scoop it out of buckets that look like they could’ve come from any supermarket. It’d be interesting to do a side by side taste test with Earnest, as they have a lot of overlapping flavours, matcha, London fog.
They let you combine flavours for a take home pint, which is fun.

I saw this reviewed on the front page of Unilocal on July 18^th and decided to book mark it since.
Pros:
1. Local
2. Good flavors
3. Good prices
4. Withing a respectable walking distance from train station
5. Good staff.
Cons:
1. Bad lighting
2. very limited seating
3. Confused why they sell chips
4. Waffle cons not made in house (I love the smell of freshly made cones).
I loved the Earl Grey, it was good but not the best in the world.

Walked in here a few weeks ago totally randomly and left being quite impressed. While the location feels out of place, the price, size and quality of the ice creams more than make up for it.
Pros
Local business
Large size servings
Reasonable prices
Cons
Out of regular walking routes
PS — Ignore the «faux foodies» that seem to be in full drove out here. Anyone making comparisons with nearby ice cream parlours, using words like «superlative», and deducting stars on the basis of bad décor (it’s a $ 5 ice cream parlor smh!) should be zoned out.
Location ⁴⁄₅
Quality ⁴⁄₅
Value ⁵⁄₅
Service ⁵⁄₅
Overall ⁵⁄₅

Yay for the Vancouver ice cream scene!
— A variety of light to rich ice cream flavours.
— Good price to portion ratio. Single scope is generous comparable to other Vancouver ice cream places.
— Local ingredients.
— Friendly staff.
— Waffles are not made in house, but locally sourced.
— Aesthetic has something left to be desired, but I’m sure they’ll work on it.
Recommend and will be returning!

This icecream place is in a residential area surrounded by condos and apartments on East Broadway. It stays away from busy areas like restaurants on Main Street, Cambie Street, downtown and etc.
I tried their mint chocolate icecream and my boyfriend tried the triple strawberry icecream. The triple strawberry icecream was better than the mint chocolate one.
I liked the icecream here, but I still like Earnest Icecream more or the best among all the icecream stores in Metro Vancouver.

Sorry for the three stars. The ice cream is fine. It’s just not superlative. If you bought deluxe ice cream from the supermarket, it would taste about the same as here.
The waffle cones are from a bag. Some ice cream shops make their own waffle cones from scratch. I think they just use regular milk and cream instead of Avalon organic milk (I’m guessing here). I felt like I could still taste the minute ice crystals instead of the super creamy and smooth mouth feel that I get from Earnest or Beta-​5.
They do give quite a large portion of ice cream scoops though. I suppose you could argue that in this area located next to VCC, it’s quite special. Although I think that both locations of Earnest Ice Cream are not that far away.
Edit: Well, I’m getting a bit of flak for this review, which is fine. I think the ice cream here is A-​OK, as in three stars. If I’m going to give a place 5 stars, it had better be the best ice cream within at least a 5 km radius, if not the entire city. Rooster is not the best ice cream within a 5 km radius. Maybe within a km, but even within 2 km, I think some of the gelato places on Commercial Drive would be better. By the time you get to 5 km, you’re within Earnest or Beta 5 territory, and it’s impossible for me to be honest and state that Rooster ice cream is at the same level of Earnest ice cream. But to each, their own.

The blood orange chocolate chip is my new favorite flavor of ice cream followed closely by salted caramel.

Service here is superb. The lady offered to let me sample, let’s say a lot, of their flavors. It was definitely a ‘I’ll let you try till you’re satisfied’ kind of customer service.
I finally settled for a double scoop. She even offered and recommended to mix Prince London Fog and Salted Caramel as one scoop and the second scoop I had blackberry cherry balsamic. This place serves up huge scoops of delicious ice cream and it’s loaded with berries. Love how I can tastes huge chunks of cherries.

Friday evening, after a lovely sushi meal. Frd told me there is a new open ice cream shop (very excited), locate on E broadway, free parking on the street that’s awesome.
Tried few sample of the ice cream, avacado .hmmm. ok, however we picked two fav «whisky hazelnut and lodon fog». Very whisky, but hazelnut didn’t roasted before put into ice cream, taste like raw hazelnut (no taste), london fog. not bad a bit too sweet. Over all Kinda disappointed but i think they can do better in the future. We didn’t finish the ice cream at the end. maybe we are too full. lol

You can really tell that a lot of effort and love was put into this ice cream. I came here to try their lemon poppy seed flavour (which is undoubtedly one of my favourite ice cream flavours) and it had just the right amount of tang to it. Surprisingly I found myself buying a double scoop of lime and organic lavender and raspberry cheesecake instead. The decision was no easy task.
The lime and lavender had a nice tang and light freshness to contrast the creamier raspberry cheesecake. I love that they didn’t skimp on the the ingredients. The lime was filled with lime zest and lavender while the raspberry cheesecake had numerous bits of (whole?!) raspberry and cheesecake. The serving size is very generous, too, so a double scoop is well worth the price. I almost couldn’t finish it.
There are only two tables with two seats each, however, and considering the nearby VCC Broadway campus, they might want to add seating to accommodate what I think is going to be a large influx of students.
p. s. They’re working on ice cream-​filled doughnuts!

Ignore the haters that say this place is copying Earnest Ice Cream,. ice cream was made available to the general public in 1660, so there. There is some cross-​over in the flavours however, and in a head to head Earnest might edge out Rooster on the Salted Caramel (but Seattle and Portland have numerous even better options for that standard of the industry!), but this place is now my fave ice cream joint in the city and a rare 5 for me. Why?
–less pretentious! (non hipsters allowed here)
–equal to other places in terms of friendliness except here the person that scoops your ice cream still makes it! (an owner). The owner told us quite a bit about the process of making some of the flavours and her thoughts on future delicious combos.
–location,. I love location risk takers! I’ve never sat on this part of Broadway, south facing on the street,. but was happy to! Just 1 block off the 10^th Ave. bike path (in fact the cross street is Glen St,… also a bike path)
–less busy (so far)
–more experimental flavours — I had Organic Roasted Choco Banana and Avocado/​Honey w. Vodka!
–huge samples (she pushed them at us) and the largest double scoop I’ve had for only $ 6! No lie, this was probably 4 scoops at a normal place,. verging on too much!
–quality and subtle flavours as equal as good as anything in Vancouver
Go here and support these people. My only beefs would be #1 for less than $ 500 they could erase the sins of what other posters called the «ghetto» décor. It isn’t that bad and easily fixable. #2 The massive scoop sizes are a draw no doubt,. but it almost makes it feel as if the product is less valuable (like the Anton’s of Vancouver ice cream), but there is no need to offer so much and I’m concerned it might be inconsistent (I think she wanted to empty a less popular flavour but if another customer saw how much I got and got way less,. I could see that being an issue).
Great find,. easy to pull over in a car and pop in, but not to dissuade you from spending here,… just order a single scoop, it is all you need.

Team Research came here for a post-​lunch dessert and we had the following 10 kids scoops ($ 3.50 each):
Triple Strawberry
This is one of my top 3. Juicy strawberry bits are in every bite and I feel it would be hard to go back to Mono Strawberry at this point.
Whiskey Hazelnut
I’m not the biggest connoisseur of whiskey but I did like the nuts in this flavour
London Fog
Definitely a hard mix to perfect but I felt this was easily on the level of Rain or Shine.
Lime and Lavender
The floral taste of lavender and sour lime aftertaste is what set this flavour apart from the others. Another one of my top 3.
Cookies and Cream
This was like eating a mix of a McFlurry and a Cookies and Cream Hershey bar. The cookie bits were delicious and delightfully creamy
Raspberry Cheesecake
This rounded out my top 3. The bits of cheesecake were consistent through the scoop so you never had too much or too little cheesecake bits.
Black Cherry Balsamic
This was one of their newest flavours and would be a great flavour for those that enjoy a slightly acidic aftertaste to their dessert. Mixing with the black cherry was an interesting choice and goes along with the season well.
Blueberry Balsamic
Another balsamic flavour; this was full of blueberry more so than balsamic and I loved it. This almost made it into my top 3.
Dark Chocolate Chunk
This was as classic chocolate as it got. This flavour also melted the quickest so if you’re a slow ice cream eater perhaps try another flavour, but if you love chocolate, they say dark chocolate is the best kind for you.
Lemon Poppyseed
Another unique flavour that I haven’t seen too much at the Earnests or Rain or Shines, I thought this was more lemon than poppyseed, but you can definitely taste a few seeds in each bite.
All-​in-​all, some flavours are similar to ones seen at the big ice creameries in Vancouver, but others like the Triple Strawberry pack a powerful punch not seen at the other store. In addition, a double scoop here is only $ 6 whereas Earnest charges $ 7. If the flavours you enjoy are common to both Earnest and Rooster’s, you can rest assure that your double scoop money will be better spent at Rooster’s.

The ice cream was really good. I tried the whisky hazelnut and the earl grey sample. I was told the lemon flavor with poppy seed is the most popular flavor and so at the end of day, I settled for that. The lemon flavor was good.
Have to say the ice cream their ice cream is really good. and yes after the ice cream I was not thirsty. This is a plus, I have to say.
Right now going in, you get $ 1 off the ice cream automatically.

I’m happy that Unilocal recommended this place. The service here was fast and the owner was nice and friendly. She let me try all different flavours to sample. I got to try London Fog, Whiskey Hazelnut, Blueberry Balsamic and Lemon Poppy Seed. Plus she asked where I’m from and name like other Unilocalers mentioned.
Later I got double scoop ($ 6) of London Fog and Blueberry they were BIG. Each scoop almost looked handful. I felt guilty of eating that much. They were both good except London Fog didn’t taste much like it. I can see there were some vanilla beans for sure. London Fog tasted very little. Blueberry was really good. I should’ve got lemon flavour too. There’s always next time. :)