Dairy Queen of Park Ridge

This Dairy Queen located at the corner of Devon and Canfield in Park Ridge still has the right idea about what a Dairy Queen should be. It should be run by one person, a family preferrably and it should concentrate on ICE CREAM. While this place has changed ownership over the past couple of years and expanded, essentially this is the same Dairy Queen I went to with my family nearly every Friday night as a kid. It's still only open during the spring and summer and boarded up and closed during the fall and winter. It's still a place where you can walk in and see a menu of ice cream and not one packed with fries, hot dogs and burgers. This is an ice cream place and on a hot summer day you can find the sidwalk of this place crammed with kids and families all eating ice cream as it slowly melts in the sun. The parking is non-existent. A few spaces in a narrow lot behind the building. You will probably need to park on a street. Seating is limited. What did we do as a family? We'd park, get the ice cream and then ate the ice cream in the car. It's great, it's small and it's perfect. more

(Ssshh, don't tell the Dairy Queen, but I actually "used" them at first just because I really had to visit a rest room - FAST). I felt guilty so I decided to place an order. (Yeah, like you have to force me to eat an ice cream cone :) Anyway, it was so good to enjoy a dipped cone again. They had a small dining room that was clean, and the kids behind the counter were pretty pleasant. They also have a small menu with hot dogs and a couple other items, but they are known for their cones, Blizzards and other tasty ice cream creations. They also had great looking ice cream cakes. more