Friendly's Ice Cream Shop: A Review

Friendly's was founded in 1935 in Springfield, MA, by the two young Blake brothers, Curtis, 18, and Prestly, 20. who sold ice cream cones for 5 cents. In 1940, the brothers opened a second store in West Springfield, Ma, and added hamburgers to the menu. The ice cream shop became a restaurant, a corporation was formed, and now there is a chain of over 500 restaurants employing 16,000 mostly on the east coast of the United States. The chain spans across 16 states, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C.

While I have been to the store in West Springfield, Ma, and a few of the others, I decided to eat at the nearest one to me now, which is at 210 Maine Mall Road, in South Portland, Maine. This location has booths, tables, and a take out window. Friendly's is a family restaurant, and the decor of this particular store has a fairgrounds theme, with a merry-go-round, tilt-a-whirl, and other fair rides depicted in large murals on the walls.

Hubby started off with a cup of piping hot clam chowder into which he crumbled some Saltine crackers, his favorite way to enjoy soup or chowder. He followed that with a turkey club sandwich on toast, which was loaded with turkey breast, tomatoes, bacon, and lettuce, and was accompanied by fries.

I chose the Honey BBQ Chicken Super Melt, which consisted of country breaded all-white chicken breast strips smothered in Honey BBQ Sauce, with bacon, melted cheddar cheese, and ranch dressing on grilled sourdough bread. That, too, came with fries.

Friendly's slogan is "Ice Cream makes the meal", so of course, Hubby had a hot fudge sundae with coffee ice cream. I had the hot fudge sundae with mint chocolate chip ice cream. The entire meal was delicious. I don't chose to eat here often, because you get a sandwich, fries, a drink, and a sundae--all for $9.99! So it's practically impossible to have a meal there and not end it with a sundae! (Naturally, it's one of my husband's favorites, because of the sundaes!)

The background information about Friendly's comes from Wikipedia, You can visit Friendly's website to locate the restaurant nearest you by clicking here.The information about Friendly's comes from Wikipedia, You can visit Friendly's website to locate the restaurant nearest you by going to the link below.

http://www.friendlys.com/locations/

I was not compensated for this review, and we paid for our dinner. The opinions expressed are mine. and mine only.