Harbourlight Delights - Cobourg, Ontario

Karen A. G.

The ice cream shop is strategically located, offering access to several attractions: restaurants, the beach entrance, the pier, and other shops in town.

The place is small, but offers a wide variety of ice cream options, all of which are quite tasty.

On weekends and summer holidays, it tends to get quite crowded in the afternoon, but later in the day and into the evening, it's usually a bit emptier.

I don't know if it's due to the busyness, but the oily smell of the products inside the shop is strong, and since the door is closed, be prepared to leave smelling like fried food (the doors are actually quite sticky with grease).

If you're thinking of getting a frozen treat there, don't get the lemon one, as it's filled with disinfectant, and it was a disappointment.

The ice cream prices are reasonable for a beach town.

There are a few tables and chairs in front so you can sit and enjoy your ice cream at your leisure (if you have space).

Pagla G.

Terrible experience at this ice cream shop. The ice cream itself was below average — I ordered butterscotch and it barely had any flavor.
But the real issue was the service. I ordered 4 kid-size ice creams, and they were served to us without any problem. However, when I went to pay, the person at the cash rudely told me that kid-size is only for kids and charged us extra for adult sizes — even though we were clearly served kid portions.

If kid sizes aren’t allowed for adults, why did your staff serve them in the first place? Why the upcharge after the fact?

I wouldn’t recommend this place. Definitely check their pricing and policies before ordering, or better yet — avoid altogether.

Donavan M.

Our group of 5 adults and kids visited the ice cream shop many times and always had a good experience. This time we did not.
I ordered a milk shake and was expecting they use the hard ice cream but I watched the server use soft ice cream from the machine. It was busy at the time and I didn’t want to make a fuss although that’s not what I paid for. $27 later I didn’t enjoy the milkshake and neither did anyone in our group like their own orders.
Won’t be returning and will put the word out.

Sarah S.

New owner claims he fired all previous employees and is hiring new ones. The truth is over half of them quit because of his lack of professionalism. He is rude and takes it out on his staff. As well as giving them tasks to complete that are not part of their job and refusing to pay them extra for doing them. For example, removing heavy machinery and other equipment from a rundown basement that has mold, mice, mice poop, and bugs. And then having to clean said basement in these conditions. As well as having someone do renovations in the middle of the store with a very loud saw while customers are in the store, making it almost impossible to order or serve anything. These renovations also involved turning off the frozen yogurt machines, resulting in potential sale loss. Basically, there is a time and place for these things to be done, and it shouldn’t be during open hours.

Not to mention how terrible pricing is. Ice cream prices went up but sizes got smaller. As well as kid sizes only being limited to kids, only offering ONE single taste test out of the 16+ flavours, only offering one size in soft serve, making frozen yogurt portions smaller for the same previous price, and selling premade frozen fries that are claimed to be “fresh cut”. Unfortunately the new owner is just looking for your money.

Shannon V.

The staff are very friendly and patient. The selection of ice cream is abundant. We were disappointed that the cones we had were stale so that's why I'm giving a 4/5 out of five stars.

The ice cream themed bench out front is just the best. Totally insta-worthy. Take your sweet treat and head down to the beach!

Neda R.

Terrible customer service and mid ice cream, “only allowed 1 sample per person.” How are you supposed to be sure of which flavour you want if you only get one sample? I didn’t want one of everything but 2-3 samples is reasonable and every other ice cream shop in the world does this. I had one sample which I didn’t like so i ordered a different flavour. I didn’t like that one and the Asian man who seemed to be the owner said “too bad.” Absolutely horrible customer service and ice cream isn’t even good. Stay away

kashif S.

Ordered soft serve espresso/coffee icecream and the gentlemen took vanilla and mixed it with some flavour. Tasted like super sweet vanilla ice cream and not a hint of coffee or espresso. On-top of the horrible tasting ice cream they charge extra for soft serve ice cream.

My wife ordered a moose track and instead gave her something tasting like ribbon candy ice cream. My 4 year old got chocolate and that tasted like peanut butter rather than chocolate.

All 3 ice creams were so bad tasting and super sweet that we ended up throwing them away. And no outdoor garbage bin either.

Worst ice cream we have had in a long time. Skip this place and go to Mr Puffs or Baskin robins which is much better.

Outdoor seating was nice though.

Elaine T.

Good variety of icecream and lots of seating outside. The water is close by and can take a stroll while eating. It's clean inside. They have soft serve too. Would like to see more chocolate flavors on the menu. We had the heavenly hash, strawberry and chocolate caramel surprise. It was very delicious and decent size.