Savoroso Cafe Gelato - Sherbrooke

Despite the good food, the dining experience at this restaurant was poor and impersonal.

I absolutely adore this charming restaurant! It is conveniently located near one of Sherbrooke's largest parks, perfect for a leisurely stroll after your meal. The gelato is authentic Italian quality, and the meals are both simple and delicious.

This restaurant is a fantastic option for lunch when you're exploring the always fascinating Marche de la Gare. The soup, sandwich, and gelato combos are delightful and come highly recommended. Plus, they are very reasonably priced.

This was our third visit to Savoroso. We had the soup special, which was quite copious, including a sorbet starter, soup, salad and bread. Plus, a small gelato! All delicioso! The service was great, very friendly and helpful.

Sherbrooke, Quebec, 35 miles north of the Vermont border, is a once-gritty industrial river city with a long commercial main artery, King Street, that is largely barren of trees, charm or special attractions. Helpfully it sweeps straight out of town to feed a network of major highways. Racing off to them would be a mistake. With some success, Sherbrooke is striving for global cachè, in part by dressing up the shores of its large urban lake that they call Lac des Nations. In mid-August at the end of a two-mile hike on a promenade along the shore, secreted below the level of King Street, my roommate Yvonne and I came upon an inviting, spruced up old railroad station. a busy site in a park-like setting with freight and passenger services and a to top-scale deli with wide varieties of cheese, meats and enticing sandwiches. Adjacent the station is an indoor-outdoor café-restaurant-disco-bar, the Seravoso Café Gelato. With blue Corona beer umbrellas on the terrace, a view of kids swimming from a dock, the temperature in the eighties and a lazy, insouciant air, it felt Caribbean. At 3 p.m. when we stopped on the terrace, Savoroso was relaxed and empty except for three men at the bar drinking bourbon. Between meals then, we couldn't sample the cooking, so to help size the place up we settled for drinks. These included **** César (clamato juice, tabasco, Worestershire sauce and vodka) and Sex on the Beach (peach Schnapps cranberry and orange juice and vodka. We were also offered various crushed ice gelati, among them **** César (flavored with clamato juice, Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce) and Cosmolato (with raspberry sherbet with cranberry juice and vodka in a martini glass). I took a virgin Cosmolato and found it a perfect antidote to the heat. Yvonne ordered a cocktail that came in a tall glass, suitable for beer, with vodka and layers of fruit juices somehow stacked, like colors of the rainbow. Poke your straw into one layer for lemon, another for cranberry, to others for and for orange and raspberry. That alone made Savoroso special.