From ultrahip to uber-midmarket: Leah McLaren and Tralee Pearce check out Dairy Queen and Kensington Organic Ice Cream.

Kensington is owned and operated by Brad Kurtenbach. He doesn't use sugar for flavour. If you want a ginger cone, that puppy is loaded with ginger (I almost choked on a test spoonful; tasting is encouraged).

<update>I would be remiss in noting that my tasting companion one May day was fellow blogger Sarah Marchildon, who was visiting from Vancouver. She went through a test spoon of ginger like it was vanilla, leaving me feeling embarrassed.

As evidence of Ms. Marchildon's generous spirit, she bought me a cone as a celebration for this blog's 1,000th post. It's now over 1,500. </update>

I can vouch for the strawberry and chai flavours. I adore the coconut-banana one from last year, but I haven't seen it there this year.

Here's one flavour mentioned in the Globe piece that I've gotta try:

 Chocolate with sugary swirls of cayenne and butter throughout. Hot, yet cold.

To find Brad's stand, it's just south of Baldwin on Kensington on the west side. If you've gone to the TD bank machine entrance, you've gone too far. :)

The Globe also had good things to say about Kawartha Dairy ice cream, available at Tequila Bookworm on Queen West, for starters.

But no discussion of T.O. ice cream would be complete without a touting of the Big Chill (Manning and College), the gelateria in the Corso Italia nabe (a few blocks west of Dufferin on St. Clair), another ice cream joint on St. Clair a block or two west of Bathurst (north side) and a joint way out on the Danforth between Main and Vic Park (south side).