Dairy Queen

Awesome food and great service. Never visit Austin with a stop here even if its only for a desert

Very Disapointed I go to Dq and wanted to see what the hype is about the special Salted Carmel blizzard and to my dismay not only are the out of this month special they weren’t making blizzard what an in convince of driving there. if you are going to have monthly special my gosh have plenty in stock jush a let down.

$ 8.65 for a burger fries drink combo is too much!!! I don’t care if it comes with a couple of bites of a blizzard! Picture made it look full size. Feel I got taken, where’s my Liam Neasons? Liam Neasons my SHHIIIIIIT!!!

Who doesn’t love a new, clean, east side, drive thru, Dairy Queen for an original chocolate dipped cone? Fortunately, or unfortunately for my waistline it is not too far for me to drive there.

When it comes to Dairy Queen, this is my favorite location. I’ve been stopping in here since the mid 90s and it is still my favorite. Something about this place that keeps me returning.

This is actually a pretty nice little DQ, in an interesting part of town. They were quick to take & make our order and our Oreo Blizzard & Carmel Cheesquake Shake were uhhh-​mazing!

I love DQ’s steak fingers. They are NEVER ready when I get there; I have always had to wait 2 – 5 min to get them, at which point they are so scaldingly hot I have to wait another 20 min or so to eat them. Which is typically fine, but annoying when you eat them on a four hour drive back with two drooling dogs in the car. Not that most of that is their fault– but it’s called fast food for a reason. I don’t expect my meal to be super fancy custom whatever if I’m eating out of a drive through, but I do expect to get it in a timely manner and be able to eat it in a timely manner after getting it (in a timely manner).
Anyhow — I had the pleasure of getting my steak fingers combo not only in a timely manner, but when I opened it less than 10 min later at home (no four hour drive or two drooling dogs to contest with this time) the food was deliciously hot and edible. Like the previous Unilocaler Kelty G. states, the service was great. I don’t normally expect good /​friendly service in the ghetto but I was impressed! And the gentleman (who am I kidding, he was probably 17 – 18) was quite a tall drink of water.
Their lime slushy thing was good as well, I really like how the icee part was made up of itty bitty little balls (that’s what she said?) instead of just crushed ice. It was a little too sweet to be considered refreshing (imo) but I stuck it in my freezer and had some later and it was actually better. And it wasn’t too hard to get my spoon through it either.
I can’t believe I just wrote not only a review for Dairy Queen but a four paragraph review to boot.
I would have given them 5 stars but their entrance is seriously atrocious. Don’t over shoot it or… you may actually get shot (this is now a five paragraph review).

The idea behind fast food chains is that they are supposed to be standardized, reliable, omni-​present, well-​branded, and quality controlled. That’s not why I love the Dairy Queen on Manor Road. I mean, it is all of those things, but if that’s what I was looking for, I could go to any old Dairy Queen — it would be interchangeable with the one on Burnet Road or the one on Stassney Lane.
This Dairy Queen has got a special charm that those other ones don’t have. For starters, they have a trash can outside with a bright, cheerful sign that says «Bad Attitudes Here.» This ain’t your regular old «No shirt, No shoes, No service» sign … they’re going at it from a whole different angle. I mean, who wants to be in a bad mood when entering Brazier Country for a meeting with the Queen of all things Dairy? By the way, what the hell does DQ Brazier mean? (According to Wikipedia, it’s being phased out, so no need to worry about it).
Anyway, I really like peacock slate which, for the uninitiated, is a multicolored stone that you can install as a floor or a counter OR in the case of Dairy Queen … all over the whole wall! This may be the first and only installation of peacock slate that you ever find in a fast food establishment.
They have a weird amenity on offer — wireless internet. I don’t know about you, but rarely do I ever think about taking my laptop to the nearest fast food restaurant and just hanging out. Maybe I’m the strange one though.
What is most important to know about this location is that (like all other Dairy Queens in the world) they have ice cream but unlike many other fast food chains in the world, they have nice, helpful, responsible employees. They are always so friendly. I LOVE it … and it’s not just because they’re serving me blizzards (although that does help just a little).
Speaking of little, they just introduced a sort of miniature-​sized blizzard. I really love the idea and every time I go I think that I will order one, because who really needs to be eating that much ice cream anyway? Then, I come to my senses and leave the mini blizzards to other people who don’t want to be as happy as I’m going to be when I’m eating my regular-​sized blizzard.
The only complaint I have for them is that when I tried to call in my blizzard order at 9:50 they denied me. I mean, my thinking was, «I’ll just save them some trouble since I’ll be showing up right before they close at 10:00.» They were probably thinking something to the effect of: «who is this fool calling us at 9:50 trying to order a blizzard over the phone?» Hey, you can’t blame me for trying, right? Oh, and in case you are wondering, I made it there before they closed at 10:00.
See you at the DQ!

Treats and eats. The american dream.
Ok. your standard DQ. The texas stop sign. Not fantastic, but not terrible fast food. Steak finger baskets are something I’ll occasionally crave, but they are never quite as good as I remember them being. But who gives a crap about the food.
Eat a blizzard. or hundreds. Since my roommates and I moved in nearby, we’ve been keeping stats on every blizzard we consume. Its not that many so far, but we’re logging flavor, size, etc for each one we eat. I’m pretty sure that soon enough we’ll have enough data on our blizzard consumption that DQ is going to want to sponsor us.