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Pinecroft Dairy Inc
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- None
4 reviews for Pinecroft Dairy Inc
Opened in 1952, Pinecroft Restaurant has been a Worcester staple and provider of high quality ice cream. I wasn't able to eat a meal there, but I did try the ice cream and it was well delish.
I tried two types of ice cream. The pistachio ice cream was full of flavour and riddle with shaved pistachios. The flavour was not overpowering by any means, and the ice cream had a nice consistency and creaminess to it. Next was the best of the two named Moose Tracks. This ice cream was a vanilla base, swirled with fudge, and stacked with mini Reese's Peanut Butter cups...! Drop a couple scoops in a sugar cone and you're laughing.
I highly recommend hitting up Pinecroft if you're in the area for some stellar ice cream.
As really young child I use to come to this place all the time, I lived right around the corner in the burncoat area, and I would be here atleast once a week. Pinecroft in it's glory days, there was still a tiny little store on top of the hill, and fake cows in the lawn. And the hill and wall would be filled with people enjoying their ice cream. The food inside was good as well, fast servvice the whole bit.
But times have changed.... I went in here recently for some nostoglia...and inside it still looks the same. Which is nice, because everything is really changing now. The same booths and counters. But I swear it's the slowest service in the whole freaking world. 45 minutes for a sandwicth? Nuh-uh. Apparently this commonplace here these days. And in the summer there are no more long lines, or tons of people getting ice cream. Just a few old folks getting ice cream. So it seems. The food it's self is mediocore. As a child part of thrill of eating here was that you could watch them make the ice cream, but w hen you get older that changes...sigh. I miss being a kid.
Today this place is far past it's glory days, its only a matter of time I am afraid before this place goes out of business.
I cannot review the food or service inside as I have never eaten here but for the last seven years (nearly as long as I've lived in MA) this place has been on my list of places to visit every time I'm nearby. I always pick up 2 quarts of ice cream and am never disappointed. My favorites used to be Purple Cow and Strawberry Cheesecake but in recent years they added the world's best Cake Batter (makes Ben and Jerry seem like amateurs). They have about 40 flavors including some frozen yogurts and low carb flavors plus all of the usual sundaes, shakes, and floats. Anyone who likes ice cream will find something to enjoy here but trust me its worth finding your way here hidden though it is.
This place brings back memories. Multi-generational memories. My mother tells me about Pinecroft when they had cows grazing and she came for the fresh ice cream as a child. When my grandmother was a child, it was a dairy without the ice cream. And when I was growing up, it was a perfect place for a family to get a casual lunch, then (you guessed it) ice cream for dessert. You can watch them making the sundaes and milkshakes right from your table; the lack of division between their workspace and your eating space makes for a very casual relationship between staff and customers, in a good way. Food's simple, but good (sandwiches, salads, chips on the side, comfort food entrees). It's been a long time since I've had their ice cream, actually, so I can't confidently review it from childhood memories. Besides table service, there's a counter (inside and out) to buy ice cream to go, and you can purchase half gallons of their high-quality ice cream.
When I was a kid, the chain Bergson's owned Pinecroft. If you were ever familiar with Bergson's, that will give you some idea of the type of food they have. When Bergson's went out of business, I think this shut down for a while, but fortunately it reopened as an independent restaurant.
The cows of my mother's childhood, sadly, are gone. But they have old photos around, and a mural painted on the wall, of what the area used to look like.
In sum, this is basically like Friendly's, but much nicer, more adult (though also good with kids), and um, more friendly.
