Ice cream in a croissant cone is coming to Toronto

Ryan Silverstein, grandson of Toronto’s rye-bread king Dave Silverstein and owner of Forest Hill boulangerie and café Le Petit Pain, has launched a limited-time croissant-based collaboration with Ronnie Fieg, founder of luxury streetwear and lifestyle brand Kith.

“I’ve known Ronnie since I lived in Los Angeles, when I worked with Drake,” says Silverstein. “He’s also a good friend of my close buddy Zach Bia. It’s a tight circle, and we’ve kept in touch.”

Fieg also operates Kith Treats, a chain of ice cream parlours that operate inside Kith stores. About a month ago, Silverstein—who previously ran a fashion label in LA and has always wanted to collaborate with Fieg—decided to reach out. “I wanted to do something really cool for Toronto,” he says. “Something that would give people a reason to go out in the cold.”

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That something also happens to be cold—but at least it doesn’t require putting one’s back out shovelling. Enter the first-ever croissant ice cream cone collaboration in Canada, between a French bakery and Kith Treats.

Exclusive to the Yorkville location, the creation blends vanilla soft serve with bits of Le Petit Pain’s pain au chocolat and Cocoa Pebbles (because Kith Treats is big on cereal). It’s garnished with croissant crumbs and a dark chocolate drizzle. But the pièce de résistance is the croissant cone, baked fresh daily at the Forest Hill bakery and delivered to the Yorkville shop—just like the original Silverstein used to do it, only without the signature orange truck.

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“We were lucky,” says Silverstein. “We figured out the proofing time really quickly, and it only took a few iterations to get the cone just right.”

The collaboration, which launches February 27 and runs until March 8, is part of Silverstein’s larger plan to expand Le Petit Pain beyond Toronto—first to London, then to New York, then to Aspen. “This positions Le Petit Pain on an international stage,” he says. “We’re a Forest Hill–based bakery with deep family roots. To collaborate with a globally recognized brand like Kith shows that Toronto craftsmanship can stand shoulder to shoulder with the world.”