Tasty Treat - Ashland MA

On Route 135 in Ashland, this place is actually an ice cream-local type sandwich luncheon shop that features mini golf.  It's actually a place that I grew up during my childhood.  I only remember this place maybe as an ice cream stand, becuase we just go here to play some golf and ice cream later on.

But the one thing I have to say is that it does look like Dairy Queen with an extended blue roof.  As a matter of fact, growing up, I kept thinking that this may be a sister of Dairy Queen because of how I reconize dairy queen with a barn-shaped roof top while I go here at Tasty Treat.  Even they sell some blizzard-like treats here, but they are actually rockets.  But growing up, I normally ordered a twist, as reconized by the picture on top of the word: "tasty treat".

But now it's about 20 years later, and knowing more about this place, this place is a luncheon place that also has ice cream.  It's got 20 flavers of ice cream, two sherbets, three seasonal flavers in which pumpkin is sold in the fall, eggnog near christmas, and peach in the summer, two soft serve flavers (chocolate, vanilla, swirl), two seasonals which is coffee and orange serbet, and six frozen yogurt flavors.  The other thing was that the ice cream here came from Richardsons.  For a place that's low-profile, they do manage to cram a menu of grill and seafood and ice cream in one small shack here.  Furthermore, this place is open year round, unlike Dairy Queen (Not pesturing Dairy Queen anyways since I am just not crazy about big chain ice cream places, though I do admit that Cold Stone Creamery is a good ice cream place.)

Now on to the golf course.  It's only 4 bucks, which is dirt cheap, but yea.  It's run down and certainly not worth the trip from far away if you planning to do mini golf.  The paint is pretty much faded, and you could actually see some stuff rot behind the paint job.  Also, the green is a bit dirty and the thing that was supposed to be water appears to be black dirt in it.  A true sign that the place was just poorly maintained.  One thing's for sure is that there's no one playing here.  In fact, I could remember going here on a summer day, and still see that mini golf place empty, sometimes one or two people playing in it.  But surely, the mini golf place is more of an eyesore than an attraction.

But anyways, my ice cream was green monster, pumpkin, and german chocolate cake.  Can't say much, because the ice cream's from Richardsons. But anyways, it was a typical banana split, but served in a container similer to what they serve meatball subs in at Rota Springs.  But they put in a fair amount of fruit inside my sundae.

Anyway for a place like this small and low-profile, one has to wander why a high profile ice cream stand like Kimball Farms decides to remain a seasonal ice cream place despite having a cafe in the country serving soups and sandwiches.  But it's kind of more like my local sandwich shop place.  But still, Kimball Farms could do about 5 flavers of ice cream sold in cups, so while lots of people far away isn't going to go to Kimballs, locals and regular customers there can still have some form of ice cream.  It's nice to say that there's a message on the Window instead of mocking me on other places with the message: "Closed for the Season", it says: "Please come inside!"  But my last words are, this place is more for the locals then the people who take trips here.

TASTY TREAT - Ashland

Open Year-round
Open 11am-10pm all year