{"id":18624,"date":"2019-05-06T10:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2019-05-06T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:33:04","slug":"dari-ice-cream-and-grill-review-hebron-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=18624","title":{"rendered":"Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review &#8211; Hebron, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23722\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dari2-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review - Hebron, IL\" width=\"196\" height=\"166\" \/> Hebron (Illinois, not Palestine) is a dinksquat town of around 1200 in northern Illinois. You may know it as the home of Chris Ferrara, who is in the Bugler Hall of Fame. No? Anyway, it&#8217;s right on the border of Wisconsin\/Illinois.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t miss it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They have a Dollar General, that&#8217;s kind of exciting. (FYI, the bathrooms are kept locked). And a stoplight (well, flashing red, anyway). A small frozen pizza manufacturer (Champion) (but you can&#8217;t buy them there, you have to walk down to the gas station). (<a href=\"https:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2019\/05\/champion-frozen-pizza-review\/\">Yes, I picked one up, here&#8217;s what I thought<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s a bar, allegedly famous for good whiskey and bad pizza. (Local gossip, only).\u00a0A couple or three restaurants, one renown for having a giant\u00a0fiberglass chicken in the parking lot,\u00a0then there is Hazels, a cafe and bakery, with excellent breakfasts and lunches. I confess\u00a0\u00a0although the food is great, I went primarily to admire the help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And then there is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/darirules\/\">The Dari<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; a seasonal ice cream\/burger place, right at the flashing red\u00a0light. There&#8217;s a bunch of &#8220;mom and pop&#8221; places like this around Chicagoland. I like them. Seek them out. Down the road a piece, there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2015\/07\/dairy-mart-review-huntley-il\">The Dairy Mart<\/a>, in Huntley, IL, a place I also like. Wrote about\u00a0it a few years back. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2013\/08\/jefferson-wi-wedls-hamburgers\/\">great one is Wedl&#8217;s<\/a>, small town in Southern Wisconsin, been selling burgers from a seasonal shack on the sidewalk for a century!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Dari has a pretty ambitious menu for a small operation. While I was tempted to go for the\u00a0&#8220;gravy sandwich,&#8221; I opted for a double cheeseburger and rings, and a small chocolate malt, just\u00a0because they offer &#8220;malts.&#8221; Not many people do anymore, sadly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How was it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, it&#8217;s a good value, at $5 for a half pound of ground beef. Excellent bun. There was a sign in the window saying they exclusively use some particular brand, I didn&#8217;t pay attention to it at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The beef patties are standard restaurant supply frozen patties. Not a complaint, just an observation. It didn&#8217;t seem like they add any of their own seasoning. Very melty American cheese food. Good pickle. Diced onion. Pretty ok.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Onion rings also from a food service supplier. Slight flavor to the batter. These are seasoned, as an ingredient or after. I quite enjoyed them. Best part of the meal for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chocolate malt. Real malt powder. Kinda hard to find anymore. I was hoping for scooped ice cream, but their base is soft serve.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t fault them for any of their ingredients or prep methods. It&#8217;s a small operation, small kitchen, in a small town, but can get overwhelmed (when I was at the window, a guy was picking up $156 worth of food orders), so they have to be as efficient as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The burgers were recommended very highly to me. They didn&#8217;t live up to the hype. But it was a pleasant day for a drive in the country and to have a meal sitting outside.<\/p>\n<p>As I am a bigly yuge supporter of entrepreneurs, &#8216;mom and pops&#8217; be sure to visit the nice South Asian couple that runs the gas station \/ market across the street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zmenu.com\/the-dari-hebron-online-menu\/\">Menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Menu, Reviews, Photos &amp; Information about DARI, Hebron and other Restaurants in Hebron, Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/hebron-il\/dari-hebron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/logo\/17406661\/biglink\" alt=\"DARI Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review<br \/>\nDari Ice Cream and Grill Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review Hebron (Illinois, not Palestine) is a dinksquat town of around 1200 in northern Illinois. You may know it as the home of Chris Ferrara, who is in the Bugler Hall of Fame. No? Anyway, it&#8217;s right on the border of Wisconsin\/Illinois.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t miss it. They have a Dollar General,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=18624\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review &#8211; Hebron, IL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16],"tags":[920,3748],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}