My mouth had the pleasure of visiting Sweet Jesus over the weekend after pining all the posts on Instagram of the epic soft serve cones for months. Sweet Jesus is a tiny spot in Toronto by all the bars on John St. where they offer 'Pimped Out Cones' as well as hot beverages. 

Sweet Jesus is a narrow hallway situated right beside La Carnitas, pretty much in the restaurant, just separated by a velvet rope which leaves you with a view to the washrooms of La Carnitas. This makes the place very crowded, very fast. The inner lazy girl in me desperately wished this place had somewhere to sit. A narrow, popular place can get claustrophobic which makes you want to leave as quickly as you can but then you realize, where can I eat my ice cream in peace? Trying to find another building to head into without having to buy more food is hard on John St so I ended up eating my ice cream inside the Scotiabank Cineplex which I'm pretty sure was prohibited since I wasn't watching a movie but anyway... 

'Krusty the Cone' $6.50+tax The soft serve itself served its purpose but once you ate through the cotton candy on top and the hard topping, it was just plain ol' vanilla soft serve underneath and difficult to eat through after eating all that sugar in the cotton candy.

'The Matcha Libre' $6 +tax  I love matcha. So I knew I had to get this beverage - a white miso hot chocolate with condensed milk, and black sesame rim, matcha whipped cream, nori and rice crispies? YES PLEASE (it sounded perfect). The beverage was tasty but impractical to drink through. It was served without a lid since the matcha whipped creme was towered so high no lid could encompass it all and with no table to set it down and chip away at the creme I was left to walk with it outside trying not to spill any of it. Finally getting to the actual liquid, the rim is loaded with black sesame seeds. Usually, I like sesame seeds since they provide a nice crunch but when you're trying to drink a liquid with that many sesame seeds, I was trying not to choke on them. I don't like the feeling of swallowing all these seeds down so I wish they took they took that aspect out all together.  TL;DR They look so pretty don't they? Super cute, super pretty, totally 'instagrammable' but that is all it turned out to be. **Verdict for labit or leave it? I would leave it. I find it way overrated for what it;s actually worth. For the [$6.50+tax per cone and $6+tax for the drink] price you could get a tub or two of ice cream and enjoy it in the comfort of your own home. They definitely lived up to expectations in the look department, but its what's on the inside that counts, right?