Mensi’s Dairy Bar

If you want the old dairy bar style cheese burgers this is a good place to visit. They are prepared to order and the ice cream is pretty good.

Hailed as the best ice cream in town, I’ve come here often with my family throughout the years. It’s a small little place right off Main Street Collierville that you might miss if you didn’t know about it. They’ve got tons of ice cream flavors as well as food options. Well, I’ve never had the food because I’ve always had the mission for ice cream when I came here. I have no idea what I used to get or how often we came but I remember this place and have fond memories of it. I try to come whenever I’m in the area. It’s very affordable.
Love:
— Butterscotch Shake
— Coconut Cone
— Funnel Fries
Ok:
— Cheesecake Cone (hubby loves)
— French Fries
— Tutti Frutti Cone

Me and my family have been coming here for years. It’s great for a sweet treat or a fast and greasy meal. Their signs haven’t been updated probably since the place opened but it still has that old school charm that you would only find in a small town. There isn’t any certain dish that I prefer over another but places like these aren’t around every corner.

Great milkshakes, and lots of fun flavors for their soft-​serve! The problem? Service is slooooooooooooow, you have to stand directly in the blazing sun as you wait to order, and the size of their ice cream cones is curiously inconsistent. If you order 3 of the same size, you may well get 3 cones with wildly varying amounts of ice cream. If you mention it, the employees don’t seem to understand what you mean. Yet, it is like that every single visit. Still, we tolerate it when we really want a butterscotch shake or a lemon ice cream cone.

I’ve been eating here since I was a kid. I can still say they have the best ice cream of any restaurant I’ve been to. There are no frills… just walk up order and go. You can enjoy your food while walking around the town square or just sit in your car. The food is like a good dive bar nice n greasy. It’s truly one of a kind and I love it.

Usually, I’d give this place four stars, but today, I was really disappointed. I’ll settle for three instead of two.
We come here a lot. It’s not inexpensive, but it’s soft serve ice cream and greasy fries and burgers.
We placed our order consisting of two small strawberry shakes, two strawberry soft serves in cones, and a jumbo strawberry shake. She originally told my 14 year old son that he couldn’t have the jumbo shake; she said it was too big for him.
After he insisted, she charged us for the jumbo shake.
There was no one ahead of us when we placed our order, so we paid (cash since her credit card machine wasn’t working) and waited.
While we waited, she took five other orders of people who showed up after us … AND THEY were served first. I was pretty ticked by the third person and on the fourth person, I told her we had to go. I asked for either our order or our money back. She stalled. Then she took the fifth order and gave them their food. On my way back up to the window, she brought out out ice cream.
Usually, the place is a bit slow, but decent. This time, it was not the best of service.

I love little places like this. It is a simple walk-​up place. The soft serve ice cream cones are large and cheap. You can get a sno-​cone if you want. The burgers have that great dive restaurant fried on a griddle in grease taste to them. Hard to beat little local places like this. It is fast, cheap and the ladies inside are friendly.

Grew up eating this food! Love it! And supporting locally!!!

Not fancy or anything you just walk up order and go, but out of any other place I have been this place has the BEST milkshakes! the cheesburgers are good as well! It is nice to go because you can order just about anything and it is super cheap (pocket change)!

It’s an unpretentious walk-​up place with no seating. And like another reviewer wrote, there’s no attempt to be nostalgic about it. Since we had time, we found a bench on the sidewalk around the town square.
My cheeseburger was okay. But my butterscotch milkshake was amazing! Wow.

The food at Mensi’s is only so-​so, the service is the bare minimum, and there are no tables. If it’s raining, you’ll get wet. If it’s hot, you’ll sweat. So why four stars? Because Mensi’s is a rarity: a true walk-​up sandwich and ice cream joint. It’s just that and nothing more. No attempt at a retro vibe. No effort to appeal to hipsters who would go out of their way to find it (which probably makes Mensi’s even more hip). It’s just a straight-​up lunch joint where you walk-​up to the window, order a serviceable burger, crinkle fries and some soft-​serve for desert.
Full disclosure: I grew-​up in Collierville and went to Mensi’s on numerous occasions while in high school, when the high school was in the building that is now the middle school and is just a few blocks from Mensi’s. So maybe I’m a bit nostalgic. But I took the wife and kids to Mensi’s when I was back in Collierville for a family gathering and we thoroughly enjoyed our meal. As there are no tables at Mensi’s, you have to go over to the town square to eat your meal. But that’s one of the great things about Mensi’s — if you’re not getting your meal (or ice cream) to go, you get to enjoy your meal in the town square of the community that Mensi’s has served for God only knows how long – at least since the mid-​80s.
We ordered cheeseburgers, hot dogs for the kids, onion rings and fries. The burgers are fried and the cheese is American. Not exactly write-​home-​to-​mama burgers, but there’s something satisfying about the simplicity of them, especially when enjoyed on a warm afternoon sitting on a bench or in the gazeebo on the town square. Between the onion rings or the fries, I recommend the fries. Though I’m positive they both come out of a giant bag kept in a freezer, the fries were a bit tastier. The chocolate milkshake I had came out of a machine, but it was much tastier than a McDonald’s shake. The kids loved the soft-​serve ice cream. My daughter even said she’d rather have Mensi’s ice cream than Ben & Jerry’s.
So there you have it. There’s not much to Mensi’s, except a totally uncontrived, straight forward, simple dining experience. A rarity worth savoring. Frequently.

Chicken strips are so good… Classic walk up place… classic Collierville.

Good food, cheap — a local favorite. Always nice to take your food, walk over to the Collierville square, and eat it on one of the benches.