Cows

Wow!!! The BEST ice cream I have ever tasted. We were there this past Summer with some friends and we all just devoured ours. The flavors are quite interesting too.

Friendly staff, yummy treats, super location. Great selection of saleable items!
Lots of fun for kids of all ages!

Can you say yum? This place is awsome always a long line up but moves quick and well worth the wait you can even get ice cream to take home

Incredible hardserve ice cream! Their fresh flavours are definitely a treat. The waffle cones are constantly being made fresh right there in front of you. The peanut butter cup ice cream had tons of mini peanut butter cups and also some toffee crunch and a butterscotch mixed throughout. Delicious!

Can you say… Yummy? Jeeze. Besides the long lines… It’s worth a visit! I waited and waited. The anticipation just makes me drool! Haha. I love the waffle cones. Crispy in all the right places! Mmhmm.

My husband and I first found this shop on our vacation to Niagara on the Lake. We fell in love with the simplicity of the theme and how they sell merchandise with a twist. The ice cream is good, don’t get me wrong, but the staff at the one here were so bitter. The most unprofessional thing I witnessed was the manager yelling at workers while the store was busy. Treat your staff better and they might act better. Just saying.

A good stop while you walking by the waterfront. Cows is located beside the Marriott Hotel and specializes in ice cream, T-​shirts and souvenirs.
The ice cream was pretty good but not sure I would go out of my way for it. I prefer Greg’s Ice Cream in Toronto — my current favourite for ice cream. I enjoyed the butterscotch. I have to admit the homemade waffle cones were delicious.
The T-​shirts play on TV and movie themes replacing characters with cows. Not sure I would wear these T-​shirts but they do provide a good laugh. Think Dr. Moo (Dr. Who) or Milking Dead (Walking Dead). They also sell other Cow related merchandise.
If your in the mood for ice cream and by the waterfront, it’s worth a try.
BK

We should clear something up off the top: COWS is a chain. It’s a small chain, with 5 stores on Prince Edward Island, and a smattering of locations in prime touristy spots throughout Canada – like Niagara, Banff, Whistler, and yes, here on the Halifax Harbourfront.
In what was the last week on Summer hours, COWS in Halifax was all but dead, surprising really given the number of cruise ships rolling through town this week, so any fears about long lines might be overstated or deeply seasonal. Once inside, this COWS is the same hodge podge of awful bovine puns and knick-​knacks as other locations, so much so that it is actually hard to see the ice cream through the thicket of clothes and retail. Push through, you do not need that «Game of Cones» or «Cownton Abbey» T-​shirt.
The ice cream is good – a list once proclaimed that COWS in PEI was among the best ice creams in the world, and having tried their concoctions in Whistler, Niagara Falls, and now Halifax, I doubt that but I’ll reserve judgement until I’m enjoying a cone in the footsteps of Anne of Green Gables. More aptly, the ice cream is tasty but hardly mind-​bending or incredible. COWS has always charged boutique prices but eschews much of the boutique branding and marketing – again, with those silly retail offerings. So, think more of a small-​scale Ben & Jerry’s with less tie-​dye and less of artisanal and bespoke ice creams in mason jars. As a result, flavour choices are pretty standard, but good – then again, it’s really hard to make bad ice cream, harder still to make absolutely incredible ice cream too.

Fun shop on the waterfront which can lure you in with the smell of their waffle cones. They have several cool cow swag like T-​shirts of well known topics like «The Milking Dead.», «Game of Cones» and «Cownton Abbey.»
I like this place but the thing that killed my rating for them is their ice cream. it’s about $ 8.00 for abit less then what they call size of a «Tennis ball» and the PEI Apple Pie seemed rather nice… had it contained more apple and less of the caramel crap [which made it taste strange since there was an abundance of this syrupy $%!&.]
I’ll try again in the future… and if it hasn’t changed, my review and it’s rating won’t either

I’m not usually a big fan of ice cream but Cow’s was uniquely different. You can taste the superior quality ice cream namely the cone was really tasty. It was little too sweet for my liking so don’t go for sugary choices. I went with a scoop of vanilla & espresso and they were both great! Give this place a shot!

Their ice cream is really good and I love checking out their newest apparel. However, it’s really not that much better than any other quality ice cream place.
Great for tourists!

It seems like there is always a line at cows but the ice cream is worth the wait. I wish they would post the flavours with descriptions outside so people could start deciding while waiting.

OK, this isn’t my favorite ice cream spot. I am never dying to get here and don’t ever want to wait in the line. But I have a couple times withstood the gigantic line at the request of a friend.
The ice cream is good. Not amazing or anything, but good. It’s about the same price as you would pay at one of the hand paddled chains, but the added bonus with Cows is their great freshly made waffle cones.
I find the place very crowded with obnoxious gimmicy merch. And it is almost impossible to see all of the kinds of ice cream before ordering. There is such a line in front of you and they are in such a rush for you to order and get out it is hard to see all of the ice cream (reading the names on the wall does not help with my selection).
Overall, I would skip this joint and make the trek down to the other end of the waterfront for Sugah!

What a cool place! Love their ice cream and the apparel collection is also very creative! Huge selections of creative slogans («Fifty Shades of Hay», «Angry Herds», «Mooey Griffin», etc etc.) printed on different t-​shirts, pjs, caps, and even undies ;)
For ice cream, I had the «moocrunch» (I think that’s the flavor, but definitely had the word crunch or crunchy in the name, lol). It was pretty good! Not too sweet and perfectly creamy. oh boy, should’ve gotten double instead of a single scoop!
Great ice cream, awesome souvenirs, what else can I tourist ask for? :-P

When I think about going for Ice Cream I think about Cows. Cows is the epitome of ice cream.
Ever since I was a little girl one of my favorite parts of vacationing in PEI was going to Cows Ice Cream. Then — when I moved to Halifax I was over the MOOOOn there was a Cows here too! Not to mention its location just happens to be my favorite place in Halifax; the waterfront! I spent my 25^th birthday walking along the waterfront with my girlfriends; enjoying Cows ice cream and pretending we were obnoxious tourists; it was awesome!
They are usually, always, busy. Line ups usually wrapped around the small building. But, it moves faster than you think. They usually have 5 – 6 chipper staff working behind the counter.
You always get a waffle cone! And, they are made fresh right in front of your eyes! You can get the original, chocolate dipped, or chocolate dipped with sprinkles or peanuts.
My go to flavor: Mooey Gooey!
Raspberry cordial is available at Cows; quite possibly the only place in Halifax, and outside of PEI that is it… YUM! That was another favorite memory, and taste, from my childhood. Another reason Cows is my go-​to.
Keep Calm and Graze On

It’s as much at Cows to view the merchandise for sale as it is to eat the ice cream. Evidently they have been billed as Canada’s best ice cream by some survey — I’ll have to take their word on that, as I don’t have enough vacation time to do my own survey.
You’ll find some flavors at Cows you won’t find elsewhere. I tried moo-​berry, which is vanilla ice cream with strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. While eating it, I had to decide whether I also needed an «Angry Herds» cap or a «The Milking Dead» T-​shirt.
Their ice cream is a bit pricier than average, but I was okay with that for the distinctive flavors and the humorous caps and T-​shirts.

Yummy ice cream and many flavours to choose from. There is always a line up out the door and usually around the building so be prepared to wait. I took off a star because I think it’s a little pricey for small portion.

I went to cows for the first time ever this summer to use a teambuy I purchased. I was not all that impressed. I love a good iced cream, but I find that the pink ice cream bus in Wentworth has a much better product and for a buck a scoop! That’s what I’m talkin about.
It wasnt bad, just not worth the hype. I do like the marketing though!

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOve on over to the waterfront and follow your nose of fresh waffle cones. It will lead you straight to cows. Delicious and luscious homemade ice cream and waffle cones. When it’s über hot I tend to get my ice cream in a dish but realistically you gotta have the waffle cone! With so many flavors which change all of the time, I can’t even list any off the top of my head.
In the dead of summer you can find the line up all the way outside the door and lined up around the corner. Trust – it’s worth the wait.
The cones are made right in front of you and they have at least 15ish kinds of ice cream for you to chose. I haven’t heard one compliant from cows!
Moo
Ps: You might as well walk there. It’s my thinking that the walk to and from will help burn off the cals you are about to ingest.

It is so unfair to write a review about Cows and not have some of their amazing ice cream with me at the same time!
Their ice cream is the best quality I have had. I literally haven’t had better than Cows no matter where I’ve gone. Their cream, eggs and everything else is fresh and you can tell by the taste. Their selection is really, really good and of course you can have my favorite, waffle cones!
Cows also has an entire clothing and accessories section in their store. I have honestly never bought anything from there but they seem to be doing good. And yes, it is all cow related. From stuffed toys to Desperate Housecows Mugs, they have it all.
The Staff have always been really nice which to me is surprising because this store is busy ²⁴⁄₇! Honestly, I don’t know if I could be friendly for that long, all the time. So my hats are off to the staff that work there.
Another great part about Cows is the fact that, in Halifax, they are located on the beautiful, downtown waterfront. So its a perfect situation for a date. Let me paint you a picture; you two have just finished dinner at a lovely restaurant, you go out for cows ice cream, then take a night time stroll along the waterfront while looking at the stars. Now if that doesn’t work then she’s just not that into you ;) But date or no date, if you’re in Halifax, head to Cows!