Rockaberry

My favorite pie and cake shop in Montréal… I visit every time I’m in town. :(Unfortunately I’ll have to find a substitute now… I’m really a bit sad that i’ll never taste their brownie chocolate cheesecake with caramel and brownie toppings again. The servers were also very nice and always willing to joke with me for 2 mins while they pack up my take out cake.

After dinner at Saint Sacrament, we HAD to get dessert so we came to Rockaberry for the first time in years!
We ordered the apple crumble cheesecake and the pecan pie. The pecan pie definitely hit the spot as a dessert but the vanilla ice cream along with it was very average.
I gave Rockaberry three stars because everything from the service, the décor and the all-​around ‘meh’ vibes of the place are generic and mediocre at best… All things you would expect from a chain café. Still worth it to satisfy your sweet tooth in the St. Denis /​Mont Royal area!

Tout a l’air tellement bon dans leur vitrine qu’on a juste envie de tout commander ! J’ai été pour un capuccino et un gâteau au fromage et choco-​caramel ! Je né regrette pas ! Prochains sur ma liste: le fromage croustade aux pommes, le citron meringué et le cheese-​cake framboise ! Can’t wait !

This place was highly recommended by a good friend of mine in the USA.
The Canadians say this is like the USA version of the Cheesecake Factory.
I have to admit, I was a little disappointed.
The way the locals here talk about the apple crumble cheesecake made it sound so delicious that I was super excited to be here.
So excited in fact that I walked 4 blocks on St. Denis street just to get here in the snow.
I ordered the apple crumble cheesecake, the mocha tiramisu, and the bananalicious.
Here’s the thing, all three were decent, and yes I ordered all 3 slices just for myself, but it wasn’t spectacular.
That’s why I kept ordering more since I really wanted to believe the hype.
Decent but definitely not mind blowing.

All I can say is. I WISH WE HAD ONE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Got the apple pie — YUM. Definitely wishing I had one here! The pies are huge, and usually I can eat a whole pie to myself, I only had a slice and I was stuffed. So delicious and it’s great that they’re open late for midnight munchies.

Ok thought this was only a bakery but guess what? You can enjoy your cheesecake with an apple martini and I did just that! It was delicious, great location, good services!

One guy goes into the shop.
Me: Hello.
Pie Dude: Hello.
Me: A slice of cheese cake, strawberry please.
Pie Dude: Sure. Wait, did you say strawberry shortcake or cheesecake?
Me: Cheesecake please.
While he puts the slice into a styrofoam container, I paused and think to myself:
«I really should stop lying about my height. C’mon man, you know you’re only 5 foot…»
Pie Dude: Here you go. You need a fork?
Me: No thanks.
The guy then leave the shop with a smile.

We ran across this great little bakery during our stroll through Montréal. There was a group of four of us, which gave us the chance to order several different items and share. Everything was GREAT, especially the apple pie! If you’re near by, save room for this place’s great desserts!

This place is good for big groups and has two floors of seating. All 20+ of us took up half the second floor! The waitress was nice and was good in taking all of our orders. Water was a little slow in being refilled though.
The portions were decently sized. My friend and I shared a key lime pie and were barely able to finish it. It tasted great! It was a lot of sugar to take in though. Another friend also shared her berry cobbler (I think that’s what it was?), and that tasted fantastic! It was less sweet than the key lime pie we had, so I prefer the berry cobbler instead. It’s a bit pricey though; my friend and I paid $ 8 for our generous slice of pie. They were also good in handling all our separate checks.
Great dessert place to hang out at!
EDIT: Came back again with almost the same group. My new favorites are the Rockabrownie Pie and French Onion Soup!

Food
— All the pies/​cakes were made to perfection
— The cakes came out fresh
— Espresso… no issues.
Service
— Was fast and courteous

Well, I’m not going to make any friends by saying this, but BLECH! The blueberry crumble was basically shortening-​flour goo on top of sugary jam goo. The coffee and service both lukewarm. The ambiance severely lacking.
I would give three stars for a freezing blizzardy night when you find yourself walking home with a good friend, and you stop in while the place is busy and full of life and you sit upstairs and look out at the snow falling in the streetlights and warm up with an irish coffee. That’s the three star experience. But keep in mind, none of that has anything at all to do with pie.
The two star experience is the one I had today. And I gotta say, it’s really not that hard to make delicious fresh pie. I make them all the dang time. And it is as simple as butter, flour, fruit, sugar. So if you’re serving pie that is anything less than delicious, it means that it’s probably full of a bunch of junk that is supposed to preserve it from going bad. Which means that you’re not actually making fresh pie. And if you’re not making fresh pie, what am I doing here?
Anyway, this place seems to have a bit of cachet here, and yes, if you find yourself on a second date, after dinner on Saint-​Denis, and you don’t really want to grab drink but you’d like to keep chatting, and you wanna test whether this person is the type who will hog the dessert, then sure, stop in and split a cheesecake.
But not worth crossing town for…

It’s an interesting dessert place, opened pretty late (which is useful if you have a ‘snack attack’ while going out in the surrounding bars on Saint-​Denis).
And the portions are HUGE! Just to make you you understand that last point: HUUUUUUGGGGEEEE! Yeah, I can never finish my plate when I order something there. One tip: share your dessert with someone.
Otherwise, their many variations of cheesecake are amazing, but it’s always a ‘hit-​or-​miss’ for me: for every time I went there, the cake/​pie would be awesome, or could be bland/​tasteless. That’s one of the reasons why I don’t go that much.

Stopped in at Rockaberry for dessert during our trip to Montréal. It was not very busy on a Sunday night. Ordered coffee and split a berry pie a la mode, since they were out if the blueberry pie. Perhaps we didn’t order the right thing, as they had done other rich looking chocolate and cheesecake pies, but I thought the pie was average. It was warm but didn’t blow me away, and the berries seemed to have more of a preserve than fresh.
The ambience inside wasn’t the most cozy, although had ample seating and a great location close to Plateau Mt. Royal.

If you love desserts then Rockaberry is THE place to go when you visit Montréal.
They offer a variety of cakes and pies that will make your mouth water simply at the sight of them. Of course, desserts are kind of their thing, but they also offer a menu of soups, salads, etc. for those who aren’t interested in indulging their sweet tooth.
After glancing at the cakes and pies they had on display I knew right away what I was going to order. I ordered the raspberry and peach crumble pie. OMG! I can’t even think about how good that pie was from the filling to the crust without wanting to take an impromptu trip back to Montréal. I accompanied my slice of pie with a tea and the entire meal itself was very affordable.
Just a few things to note:
— staff does speak English (for you non-​French speakers)
— there are two floors available for seating
— Free wi-​fi is available at that location
I would love to stop at Rockaberry when I go back to Montréal!

Rockaberry is the must-​go place for cake lovers. Their giant, rich and delicious pies are a guilty pleasure and unlike anything else. I have to admit that every year for my birthday I treat myself with a cake from Rockaberry; that’s just how great it is!
Where they lose a star however is in the rest of their menu. Their food items are not bad but they do not impress at all. They are quite bland and unoriginal. The prices are too high for the quality they offer in that department. Their expertise truly is pies/​cakes. I would therefore recommend eating dinner or lunch elsewhere first, then going to Rockaberry for dessert. Bön appétit!

OMG. Can they open a location in Los Angeles. We loved it. Geeses, where do I began, the portions are huge and the coffee was great. You can’t go wrong with whatever dessert you buy!!!

Je n’ai jamais compris la tendance «tarte». Si j’ai le choix entre un brownie, un biscuit ou une portion de tarte, mon ventre crie pour les deux premiers. C’est pourquoi le Rockaberry m’intriguait, je voulais voir si je pouvais tripper sur les tartes moi aussi.
Ça commence avec un service vraiment détaché. Les tartes sont disposées en arrière d’une vitre au comptoir, mais on nous indique qu’on né peut pas rester là et qu’il faut attendre pour le serveur à notre table. Personnellement je mange avec mes yeux en premier, et voir les tartes pour faire mon choix était bien plus invitant que de lire un monotone menu.
Niveau nourriture, on né fait rien à moitié. Ta pointe va te coûter 6 $, mais tu vas avoir le tier d’une tarte dans ton assiette. Qui a vraiment faim pour tout ça? J’aurais vraiment aimé avoir l’option d’une «demi-​portion»; Oui les tartes étaient bonne, mais trop c’est comme pas assez. Oui tu peux partager ta pointe à deux, mais faut s’entendre sur le choix d’une tarte en commun, et avec l’appétissante variété proposée c’est un gros défi quand même.
Mais au final non, j’ai pas eu de révélation. Je vais rester avec mes biscuits.

I’ve been coming here since the 90’s…
Back in the day, this place was so popular, somewhat like Juliette and Chocolat of it’s day. It still has some darn good pies. My fave is the mille feuilles, I had a oreo period, banana split, oh yeah. Sadly banana split is no more, they replaced it with banana cake
(cough crap cough).
I think this place is due for an update on the pies, I think we’ve all been here so many times, and ate them pies so many times, even though it’s still good, it doesn’t wow anymore… it’s still packed when we went, but it feels stale and I’m a bit sad about it…

Ok so I can only review one kinda pie here cause I have yet to move on to the next (it’s been about 10 years but who’s counting) it was called Bananasplit, but now it’s called Banalicious… don’t matter cause it is to die for no matter what you call it.
Light not too sweet (which is almost impossible but somehow true), chocolate cake and bananas, rich whipped cream and sinfully moist cake,
I rest my case, 23.95 gets you a whole pie, write happy birthday, congrats on your graduation, enjoy your oil change… it’s all good
mmmmmmmm

Rockaberry’s is best known for their pies, pies, pies! A heavenly, yet devilish, treat that makes you feel oh-​so-​divine. I always walk on over from the Concordia quarter and back, as to not feel guilty for indulging. They serve some sandwiches, salads, and other things here and there too… but their pies are phenomenal and hit the spot just right.
My favourites are their fudge & caramel cheesecake, oreo cheesecake, raspberry crumble pie, and strawberry & peach crumble pie. Mmmmm… Writing this is making me want some right now.
They have outdoor seating that provides a great view of what’s happening on St. Denis, from shopping to watching passers-​by.

I love pie. So when my friend recommended a great pie place in Montréal, I immediately added it to the itinerary. Hubby and I walked over after lunch at Schwartz’s and shared the waiter’s rec of a slice of apple crumble cheese. SO GOOD. The «crumble» is made up of these huge chunks of buttery, sugary, crumble-​y deliciousness; the apples were not overly sweet or gummy; and the cheesecake was fluffy and smooth. Minus one star for the sloooow service due to the fact they only had 2 people on staff at the time. Yikes!

Je dois commencer par avouer avoir été pâtissière dans une vie passée et j’étais spécialisée dans tout ce qui était gâteau, tarte et cupcake. Ce que je considère comme étant bon, est donc un peu biaisé par mon passé.
Au départ, je m’attendais à n’y retrouver que des sucreries mais ça n’est pas le cas. Ils offrent des repas complets ainsi que plusieurs boissons alcoolisées. Mais puisqu’à chaque fois que j’y suis allée c’était pour le dessert, je n’ai goûté qu’aux gâteaux. Et ils sont bons. J’ai eu la chance de goûter à celui aux Oréos, celui chocolat-​fromage-​caramel et la croustade aux pommes. Je les ai tous aimé et les portions sont extrêmement généreuses. Même qu’en partageant un morceaux à deux, vous serez tous deux bien remplis!
Pourquoi juste 3 étoiles donc? Pour le service qui, bien que bon, est un peu détaché. On a un peu l’impression que les serveurs aimeraient mieux être ailleurs. Et aussi à cause de l’ambiance. Il manqué quelque chose (peut-​être un éclairage tamisé ou bien de la meilleure musique) pour que je puisse vouloir y rester un peu après avoir mangé mon gâteaux pour jaser et possiblement prendre un verre si la soirée est propice à ça. Je trouve que ça frôle le côté générique de cafés comme Second Cup, sauf avec des gâteaux et des tartes bien meilleurs!

Voici le temple des petites douceurs. Oui, oui, vous pourrez aussi prendre un sandwich ou un wrap si le cœur vous en dit, mais franchement vous n’êtes pas là pour ça. Vous le savez, je le sais, alors n’essayons pas de prétendre le contraire. Vous êtes là pour les gâteaux!
Je vous recommanderai donc la croustade aux pommes ou encore mieux, celle aux framboises et pêches! Et vous pouvez même demander à ce qu’elle vous soit servie réchauffée, avec une boule de glacé et un verre de lait! Ah et tant que vous y êtes, testez aussi la tarte aux citrons meringuée! Vous m’en direz des nouvelles!

Oh… my… G*D! This place is AMAZING!
I’ve been on a pie kick since Thanksgiving. Seriously. For the past four or so months my friends have heard nothing but my desire for pie! Last weekend while on a trip to Montréal with my girlfriends, I started talking about my never ending desire for pie again. And so, after a fabulous dinner at L’Express, I was taken here, to Rockberry, otherwise known as pie heaven!
So the group of us were absolutely stuffed to the gills when we arrived, but we still decided to get coffee and share 3 pieces of pie. And I voted to get mine a’la mode (yuuuuuuuuuum!).
And when they arrived… they were GIANT! Each «slice» was seriously a QUARTER of an ENTIRE PIE. And the a’la mode was two GIANT scoops of ice cream. INSANE.
And… SO GOOD! The apple pie was the best out of the three. The strawberry rhubarb was too sweet for my taste. And the blueberry pie was perfect… and swimming in ice cream. YUM! My lactose intolerant stomach didn’t complain (thank goodness), and I was able to gleefully stuff myself sick with pie and ice cream.
It’s such a good thing Montréal is a 6 hour drive away… or I’d be here every weekend! :) The BEST place for pie! And our server was really sweet. And it looks to be a great place for a date! We saw a bunch of people eating sandwiches and dinner here. But definitely… come here for the pie!