Location: 1134 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Website: https://www.cherryontopto.ca/

Cherry on Top specializes entirely in non-dairy gelato.  In a pre-Honey’s world, this likely would have given me pause, but Honey’s is conclusive proof that you can make vegan ice cream that’s still thoroughly delicious.

They specialize mostly in fruity flavours, though they do have a few non-fruity gelato standbys like chocolate and hazelnut.

I went with the banana chocolate chip, and it was impressively smooth and creamy.  It does have that telltale slight thinness you get from non-dairy ice creams, but it’s something you’d have to think about to notice.  Like with Honey’s, I think if you just gave this to someone blind, they wouldn’t immediately notice it’s vegan.

I was a bit less sold on the taste, which was pleasant, but had a strong banana extract flavour that I’m not crazy about.  Still, I enjoyed it enough that I’m definitely keen to come back and try some of their other flavours.