Buffalo ice cream parlor

Does anyone know if family ever opened anywhere else after the Buffalo ice cream parlor closed on Irving? Rumor has it the Grandchildren own a few places in Arlington Heights and Buffalo Grove? Kad

Hi!

My parents always treated us to Buffalo's on Irving Park after another (dreadful) visit with my grandparents.

After the original was closed for the purposes of sprouting yet another gas station, Buffalo's opened a location on Dempster, which is also long gone. By the way, it didn't close without a fight. Mike Royko at the time wrote several columns protesting the Buffalo's demise.

Buffalo's in Buffalo Grove on the corner of ARlington Heights And Lake Cook Roads is allegedly from this lineage. I have been there for their ice cream. IT is also a greek family-style restaurant. What I have never gotten around to doing is inquiring if the alleged lineage is true or just borrowing from an old Chicago legacy.

Ah the Buffalo, those were good times ....

Regards,
CAthy2

I think the original Buffalo was owned by the Mitchell family,the ones that operate restaurants at Clark/North and on Clybourn. Part of that same family although a separate entity was Lou Mitchell's.

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I miss the old place. My parents loved to take us there as a treat. I remember a little about the history of it. It was in fact owned by Greek immigrants. The way it came to be named Buffalo is that is the first place the man lived when he came to America.

There is a Buffalo's Ice Cream Parlor at the corner of Arlington Heights Rd. and Lake-Cook Rd.

Damn, I thought this was going to be about a place that served ice cream from buffalo milk.

Sadly enough, so was I.

-Ed