Mike's Place is a fantastic spot! The staff here are incredibly friendly, welcoming, and patient while you choose your flavors. The shop has a wonderful, lively ambience that makes it a perfect stop to sit back and enjoy a treat.We tried the Blackberry Sorbet and the Banana Nuts Gelato with Coffee Crunch. Everything was absolutely awesome, but the Banana Nuts was our clear favorite--the flavor was spot on! Highly recommend dropping by for incredible frozen treats and great vibes. read more

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Ambience: Has seating area Flavors: Lots of options to choose from Price: Comparable to other ice cream places Service: Friendly Stopped by Mike's Place for ice cream while exploring downtown Gibsons. The location is great and easily accessible, surrounded by plenty of shops, cafés, and restaurants. It wasn't crowded when we visited, making it a nice stop during our walk around town. They offer quite a variety of flavors. We decided to try the jalapeño flavor and Ferrero Rocher. The Ferrero Rocher was decent, but not particularly memorable. The jalapeño flavor was definitely unique--it started off surprisingly good, but the spice kept building with every bite and became quite intense by the end. While the flavors we tried didn't completely wow us, I appreciate that they offer some creative and different options. Given how popular the place is and its convenient downtown location, it's definitely worth stopping by and trying a flavor that catches your eye. Overall, a good ice cream spot with plenty of choices, friendly service, and a great location. read more

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Checked out Mike's Place for their homemade gelato. They also have snacks, sourdough bread, gelato cakes and drinks. A huge selection of roughly 66 gelato flavours including 10 dairy free options. Gelato prices are not updated on their board; cashier informed us those were the old rates. - 3 Scoops ($9.40) - raspberry pomegranate, passionfruit and coconut milk chocolate. Texture was great but the scoops melted quickly - Beef roll ($2.95) - warmed up. Decent filling read more

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The hedgehog gelato is da bomb! It's very chocolatey and tastes just like the hedgehog from Purdy's. This shall be my must order flavor in future. There are so many flavors here. You can also get it in the form of milkshake. I love how they still sell candy at 10 cents, just like in the old days. You can also get coffee, tea and baked goods here. Lottery tickets too. Don't forget to take a picture with the bear outside. read more

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We purchased a fresh loaf of bread from Mikes Place this morning. AMAZING! Good breakfast sandwiches too.

Loved stopping by Mike's Place for a sweet treat! The hardest decision was deciding what flavor to enjoy. The ice cream was smooth, creamy and delicious. read more

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Love this place because they have everything you want for a quick bite to eat or even some general store type things, great ice cream, and I like it even more because there is no tipping option, I don't understand tipping anywhere, except at a restaurant where servers actually do more work than just their wage! read more

Summer is for cold treats and gelato is perfect for a hot, summer's day. This small shop has probably over 40 flavours of gelato. What's really neat is that they display the gelato differently based on the flavour. There were actual Ferrero Rochers on the Ferrero Rocher flavour and some Kinder Surprise toys on the Kinder Surprise flavour. So cute! I got to try a bunch of flavours, but the wasabi flavour was most interesting. It tasted like wasabi and had a small kick. I had an excellent earl grey gelato in a waffle cone. It was nice that you don't get extra charge for a waffle cone. Remember to stop by when you get off the ferry! read more

Mike's Place - Kinder Surprise toys in the gelato - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Gibsons, British Columbia

Mike's has gelato. Many, many fabulous flavors. Consider sampling the Cookie Monster flavor...so blue! read more

They have the best fresh sour dough and gelato on the coast id say! Been going here ever since i was in highschool, the owner is lovely

This is one of the few places that have lots of options and serves good ice cream. I am amazed at the variety. Have to say this place is worth going to. They have good ice cream. The staff are friendly. You get to sample before buying. I personally like their cafe latte. Yummy. Also this place has ice cream sandwiches and ice cream cakes. Not to mention there are lots of seating available. I am giving this place a thumbs up. read more

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Unfortunate to see other's had a negative experience here. We were served by a teenage girl who let us try a few samples and seemed knowledgeable about the ice creams and told us her favourites. I got black currant and (local tea maker's) earl grey (both fabulous!) and my boyfriend got moose tracks, peanut butter cups and tiramisu (YES, a three scooper! The dude loves ice cream). It was much cheaper than most ice cream places and suuuuper delicious! If only it was sunny that day :).. read more

Best Gelato in BC. It's homemade and the owners are lovely people. Definitely a must visit if you go to the sunshine coast!

Just ordered a gelato from yet another rude Sunshine Coast store clerk. P.S. Rude lady, you can talk to your customers without being snide. None of them need to spend money there. There's other places to get treats without crappy customer service. read more

It took a little asking but Thank You Mikes Place for bringing back a sugar free option for ice cream. It's appreciated and as a local you have my business year round.. And there must be 50 flavors of homemade delectable ice cream that I highly recommend you check out.. Thank you. read more

I love this place! You can sample before you buy. I got the chocolate with coconut milk gelato. It was rich in chocolate with a subtle coconut aftertaste - absolutely delicious! I opted for a cup, but I believe you can get a waffle cone for no extra charge. The price for one scoop was $4.50 plus tax. Very reasonable for the size of one scoop. The only downside is one scoop = one flavour. Service was very friendly - the younger women behind the gelato counter and the older gentleman at the cash were both lovely. Returning tonight to try the cookie dough! read more

Holy moly if your in Gibsons you gotta go to Mikes. Best gelato in town and it's always busy in the summer. Soft and creamy... OMG I want some right now just writing about it. Flavours I've had and enjoyed too much: After Eight Snickers Rolo Grasshopper pie Cheesecake The plan cheesecake was my absolute favourite! read more

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The food and service are fine. I would rate higher, but the staff were not masked and there was no shield in front of the register. Also did not see hand sanitizer. We had our own masks and sanitizer, but we would feel safer if we saw more precautions. I hope it will be improved by our next visit to Gibsons. read more

The ice cream is meh - you can get better from the grocery store - but the rating is primarily for the poor service. There's a grumpy older woman working there that likes to make passive aggressive comments about customers walking by each other when trying to see the ice cream options even when they're maintaining distance. Its great youre wanting to ensure the safety of you patrons - instead of being a crabby woman try adding visible signage with guidelines, using a mask when serving people and asking people to adhere to the signage if they miss it. read more

Lots of flavours to choose from. I really enjoyed my dark chocolate cone, and my family shared a pistachio scoop in a cup, which I also tried (real pistachio pieces and no green food colouring). Very good gelato flavours without being too sweet, and good-sized scoops, too. The heat inside was oppressive, though. The girl helping us was impassive, and made no attempts to greet us or smile; and the cashier was too busy having a conversation with her friend to pay me any attention besides taking my money. We would return for the gelato, not the service. read more

Their website refers to "top notch customer service" but no one spoke to me during my entire transaction there. I bought two cups of ice cream from a dead-eyed, slump shouldered woman who seemed to be willing herself out of there. Another woman stopped talking to another person to stare at me as I told her what I had to pay for. Wordlessly she took my money. A very strange, cold experience. The least happy ice cream sellers I've ever experienced. Also they may call it "gelato" but I didn't find it especially flavourful. read more

What's better than following a greasy Fish & Chips lunch with a scoop of Gelato from Mike's Place??? A double scoop($4!) of Gelato from Mike's Place!!!!! Spread over 2 coolers, there were about 40 flavours to choose from. I ordered Coconut and Cookies & Cream and my partner ordered Pumpkin Pie and Cheesecake. Each was exceptionally flavourful and creamy! My Coconut Gelato had Coconut shavings throughout and the Pumpkin Pie Gelato made me want Summer to end right then and skip to Thanksgiving! The small, front patio is great for taking a break or people watching as you eat. Mike's Place also has a coffee bar for your caffeine fix, light meals, and plenty of snacks for your stroll around Lower Gibsons. I think I even saw some old school VHS rentals in the corner. Small towns, gotta love em'! read more

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So again I got cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Okay, so I know I am lame... I always get the same thing, but why fix what ain't broke. I love their plain cheesecake flavour. It doesn't need a thing. It is perfection in a small, red cup. It's so smooth and has a real cream cheese flavour. I wish that the other gelato place we frequent had plain cheesecake, but I'll eat it anyways. I was so tempted to get two scoops of cheesecake, but I had to get pumpkin pie. I would eat pumpkin pie filling out of a can, and I akin this to that. Wow. It's exactly like eating the filling out of can. Not that I have. Yet. My husband got apple pie. It was kind of icy. Meh. That didn't deter me from eating it. I love how these people have created such wonderful flavours that taste exactly like they should. The snozzberries taste like snozzberries. Also, I noticed at the cash register that they have a frequent gelato card. Hmmm... I also noticed that they didn't offer me one. I feel like Jughead at a buffet. read more

We went to the Greek restaurant next store and decided to go next door for ice cream after words. We were told the ice cream was homemade so thought we had to check this place out for desert. Tried a few samples of the ice cream. No real wow factor but it was the first ice cream place I've been too that doesn't have cone holders which makes it difficult to hold your cone and get your money out at the same time. So I noticed it's called Mikes place so I asked the guy if he was Mike the owner only to get a snarky response then he seemed upset I asked him which put me off somewhat then he said his son was Mike but it was weird how he seemed angry I asked. Maybe just had a bad day who knows but I ate 1/3 of my cone and threw it in the garbage because it was so sugary I honestly could stomach it. I don't think I've ever had ice cream that sugary it was awful. I will not be back. The older man slumped behind the counter was a jerk and the girl serving the ice cream had no personality just a very dead cold experience for an ice cream shop read more

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Very friendly and great ice cream - not sure why the place is rated low. The owner was very friendly and patient as we tried multiple ice cream flavors. The ice cream scoops were also very generous. read more

YUMMY Delicious Crème glacée Lovely staff! Lots of flavour options. My personal fav: Salted Caramel.

Great gelato, selection and patio to sit out on. Unfortunately the service was poor. A simple hello or thank you would have been nice.

I've only been here once back in August-September 2012, as it was my first time traveling to Vancouver, and I was taken to Nanaimo island by my relatives. It was a warm, hot day, so my uncle treated me to ice cream, and we stopped by Mike's Place. I am probably the most indecisive person in the whole world, so you know they have good service when the server is still smiling politely and friendly towards a girl who cannot decide what flavor she wants and has about ten spoons in her hand. Out of embarrassment at my indecisiveness, I quickly chose Toasted Almond on a cone despite not tasting much when I sampled it. But when the server handed me my cone, and I took a nice good lick, the subtle flavor of the toasted almonds(which you could see in the ice cream) gradually grew stronger, and I was hooked. I was so excited about the flavor that I offered it to my mom to try. She agreed with me -- and then proceeded to eat half my cone! (And just for the record, my mom has always been careful with her sugar intake due to diabetes) That's how good it was! It's so hard to find a place with good Toasted Almonds ice cream around where I live(and believe me, I've looked). I wish I could have visited Mike's Place one more time before leaving. If I ever get a chance to visit Nanaimo again, you know where I'll be stopping at! I should mention that I did not remember the name of this place, and hardly remembered where I went. I started by googling ferries in Vancouver, looking at their destinations, and finding Nanaimo familiar. Then I proceeded to google ice cream places in Nanaimo. Luckily, Mike's Place appeared fairly high in the results, and sounded familiar. I then google mapped it, which gave me a road in the middle of seemingly nowhere(though it looked familiar). So I yelped it instead, and the pictures told me that this was the place! See what I had to do to find this place?! read more

I vistited this place in July after reading good reviews, and I suppose the fact that it is busy is because there isn't any other ice cream shop around. There was a very surly man at the cashier who was just so rude. To be fair the young people that work there were friendly but I wouldn't bother to go there again for mediocre ice cream and really bad coffee. It was the only low point of our trip to the Sunshine Coast. read more

So many options! Almost impossible to choose. Delicious ice cream. Some outdoor seating. Great location for walking your cone around town. read more

I think they need to add a new flavor of gelato at Mike's Place...what is coming to mind is "Grumpy old guy" or is that too long? How about GOG. Wow went there with my daughter and the treatment we received was so disrespectful. It will be a long time before we go there again. read more

adventures of desert: walking to mikes for ice cream is worth it. but damn it needs a makeover asap. read more

5 star review for gelato.. (Not sure about anything else!). Amazing ice cream, well priced in cups or cones. Super delicious! I think Nutella is my favourite, or maybe pistachio, or rum and raisin.. so many to work my way through! (Defo. get your ice cream here rather than paying 3 x as much for half the taste at the ferry terminal!) read more

Best gelato anywhere. The sandwiches, muffins are also good, but save room for the gelato or you'll regret it. I do agree the decor really needs a makeover. read more

If I could give zero stars I would. When I walked in the main guy sitting there was so rude to me it immediately made me cry. I've never been treated so subhuman before and brushed off like I didn't have a right to exist or a voice. If you are a woman I would suggest steering clear cause this man classically won't listen to a word you have to say or let you finish any sentence you start. A large and sad display of white male patriarchy in a small mom and pop store unfortunately. read more

Everyone here for the most part is super nice. I did however though have a run in with one of the older ladies who works there. She was quite rude when my friend and I asked how much two gelatos would be with tax. She shooed us away from the counter and had quite an attitude. read more