Montreal · ice cream
Crèmerie Meu Meu
Meu Meu is the strongest longevity and continuity signal found in Montreal: a 36-year-old shop whose staff bought it from its retiring founder specifically to keep making it the same way, stated as such on the shop's own site.
What we know
- In continuous operation since 1989 at the same Saint-Denis Street address (meu-meu.ca)
- Ownership passed from its founder to a group of its own longtime employees on his 2023 retirement, explicitly to preserve continuity: 'un petit groupe d'employés de la crèmerie a pris la relève du commerce et continue la tradition en reprenant les mêmes recettes, ingrédients et façons de faire qui ont fait le succès de la crèmerie en premier lieux' (meu-meu.ca)
- Markets itself on longevity and naturalness: 'Indulge in the natural goodness of 35 years of Montreal's iconic ice-cream shop' (meu-meu.ca, English meta description)
- Rotates roughly 35 flavours at a time from a back catalogue of about 100 developed over its history, changing with the season: sorbet limonade rose, tarte à la citrouille, sésame noir among current examples (La Presse, 2025)
- One of the longest continuously operating independent crèmeries in the city — 36 years under two ownership structures at one address
- Status
- open
- Address
- 4458, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2J 2L1 (Plateau-Mont-Royal)
- Maker
- Founded and run by an unnamed original founder from 1989 to 2023; since the founder's 2023 retirement, run by 'un petit groupe d'employés de la crèmerie' (a small group of the shop's own employees) who took over the business
- Opened
- 1989
- Website
- www.meu-meu.ca/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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