Amazing Italian beef sandwich here and the homemade cut french are the best. Finish a great meal off with a huge selection of homemade ice cream. Definitely worth a visit.

Review Date: July 14th, 2013The place that got me hooked on Peanut Butter Malts.The Spotted Cow introduced me to my love for Peanut Butter Malts. I hadn’t been to many ice cream shacks by 2013, so this really blew me away. I have ordered many Peanut Butter Malts from other places and they just aren’t the same.Any who, The Spotted Cow is a cow-themed Ice Cream shack that serves up food and great frozen treats. Being cow-themed, everything inside has cows on it or is a black/white color scheme. A great place to bring the kids/family for a delicious lunch or dinner that you can top off with some ice cream and take a photo with the pig at the entrance!

Local favorite for quite a few years. Food and ice cream is delicious and very reasonably priced. The ice cream is homemade right here and is sold by the once even a sugar cone is by the once. Order as much as you want by the once. Come on in and give them a try. You wont be disappointed.

Came in for an order of the best fried mushrooms ever and sampled the lavender fudge ice cream, AMAZING!!!

Its a great 👍 place for home made ice cream and very good food 😋.

Excellent burgers! Nice decor and fair prices for portion size and quality of food.Very slow to get you food but it is very fresh.They did get our orders wrong otherwise 5 stars.We will be back for the fresh burgers!

The barbecue pulled pork, fried onion rings and cinnamon ice cream is my favorite order!

Coffee Toffee! Delish!

Fabulous ice cream and food. Staff is super friendly and helpful.

I went here quite late, near closing but the employees didnt care. (Sorry)They were friendly here and had amazing ice cream. I would definitely suggest eating here.The bathrooms were clean and looks safe to use.

This is a favorite with the kids. Many sandwiches and salads to choose from. My favorite is the BLT and the fries are super tasty. Kids meals include a free scoop of ice cream. This is a serve yourself place but once you order at the counter, a server brings your food to the table. I highly recommend this place

Homemade Pastrami!!! The best Pastrami ever! And the ice cream is so good too. I usually get the Italian Beef and it so tender and juicy. Great onion rings. My familys favorite ❤

Great place for shakes and Ice cream!

Very decadent ice cream. Love this place.

This place is wonderful, and the staff is so sweet and pleasant. There are so many flavors of ice cream, and its right off one of the main roads of Peoria. I truly enjoy this place, as its not often you run into an old and new fashioned establishment like this.

So delicious. There chicken sandwiches are tasty. The ice cream flavors are cow name related and so creamy. The whole decor idea is creative and welcoming.

Great service and staff. Food was delicious 😋. There were many choices for food and selection. Will be one of my favorite places to visit when in the area.

The food was absolutely delicious. They had flavors of ice cream I have never heard of and I tried a few of them myself which were all so absolutely delicious.

Was wanting a a chilli dog today, and they did not disappoint. They make their own coney sauce, no beans. The side of fries and onion rings were good. I like that you can get a half n half them. Not health food, but if you want a guilty pleasure I would recommend. Their ice cream is excellent.

This place has very great food. There is a lot of ice cream flavors. This is a great place to eat.

Their ice cream is amazing. The onion rings were even better! Great customer service! Definitely will be back!

Franks famous Italian beef, always great!

Fun place to be! Good ice cream, family friendly atmosphere. Also has a good menu.

Im sure the food is great but they close at 8 oclock thats ridiculous considering its still daylight

Super nice staff, decent food, great ice cream!

Tasty Food and Nice Staff..

Very delicious pork tenderloin!!!

Excellent Italian beef .... and cheese fries!

Great service great ice cream.

A very nice and stylistic joint, but just a tad expensive for my tastes! The food was great though!

Service has always been great and the variety of ice cream never disappoints. I bought the fried buffalo chicken sandwich and it was surprisingly better than most other spicy chicken sandwiches Ive had. While their ice cream is great, give their food a try too! It was also a nice place for my friends and I to gather and have our weekly hangout as there was no pressuring for us to leave by the workers or management which you can sometimes feel at other establishments. Overall, give it a go! It might be more desirable in the summer, but its good all year round!

Free ice cream for health care workers

Love this place, peoria staple

The Italian beef, horseshoes, and ice cream are always top notch.

Creamy Ice Cream. Yum

Really good food and ice cream! Very family friendly!

Good food and Ice cream

My wife and I have always enjoyed this shop in the past and we like to support local business, especially during the hard times we’ve been going through. However, tonight we felt like getting some ice cream so we looked online to see if Spotted Cow was open. From what we were able to obtain on the internet, the shop would be open until 8pm. We arrived a couple minutes before 6:50 and walked up to the take out window where we found a sign that had the reduced hours and said the shop would be open until 7pm. While we were looking at the menu, an employee came out and abruptly told us that the store was closed (we still at 10 minutes or more). So we left and took our business to Sweet Cece’s where we were happily greeted and thanked for our business when we left. While I understand that it may be trivial to get worked up over 10 minutes, there are HUNDREDS of local businesses fighting to be open right now and I find it in bad taste to close your store early with several sources suggesting otherwise.

Great good and ice cream

Delicious Italian Beef Sandwich and Fries!

Family favorite. I especially love that they are willing to run the scoops they have been using, so my nephew, who has a severe but allergy, can enjoy this too. This is one of the few places we can safely take him for ice cream.

The ice cream is so good! The variety of flavors is different than most and I enjoy trying a new flavor Everytime. The employees are nice and quietly efficient. They work hard to keep the place spotless as is very obvious when you walk in. Everything is gleaming. The food portions are huge. The fries are delicious (try the cheese fries). The chicken tenders are real cut up chicken breast. My daughters and I love them. The burgers are great too and they have so many options. Youll definitely want to go back again and again! We got a ton of food for a very fair price.

It was decent great shakes hamburger was ok.

The 2 young ladies working when i went where great, also the food and shake tasted wonderful.

A well-regarded local ice shop and grill. The Spotted Cow is very popular and has a lot buzz. Ive eaten their a number of times but dont see what the fuss is about. Its okay but not a place I think about stopping by. Though I have to say those chili dogs looked really good. I should plan a trip by for some.

Tasty burgers available at reasonable price.

I was from out town, first time trying it was delicious!

Excellent ice cream and sandwiches

We got pick up. The fries were $4,50 per order andwere expensive and horrible. Some of them were rubbery and the others were so hard you couldnt eat them. During the pandemic, not one person we could see.through the window had a mask on. There were several cars alrrady there when we arrived and people kept.entering the back. There were at least a dozen people in a small room. It cost almost. $30 for two junk food meals that were terrible. We will not be back.

I love the cow! The new owners try very hard to maintain the same standard or better than the original owner and that cannot be easy. I love the horseshoe and the tenderloins are good with a unique relish worth trying. Try anything on the menu and you wont be disappointed!

Pleasant staff, let me try any flavor I wanted.Ended up getting the lavender flavored ice cream and my goodness. It tastes just like it smells. I felt like my taste buds developed a sense of smell. It was incredible and I want to have it again.

The Spotted Cow is one of our absolute favorite places to eat in town. Growing up in the area, I really only thought of them as an ice cream place. Their ice cream is really good, but they have some excellent food choices too. Their chicken sandwiches are some of our favorites and their fries beat out almost any other restaurant in the area!

Great service

I wasnt impressed. I ordered the Italian beef sandwich bcuz someone had posted Spotted Cows beef was better than Portillos. Looked great but was incredibly salty and at the same time, flavorless. Service was good. But not enough to make up for the pricey meal.

Love their Italian Beef. Best in town

Stopped here for lunch today with my friends and we were definitely VERY pleased by the service, atmosphere and most importantly the food! Fantastic flavors and they gave us all free scoops of ice cream for us visiting for the first time! Will definitely come back when Im in the area again!

I love the frozen yogurt here!!! I think the ice cream is the best I have ever had, besides at Ted Drewes in St. Louis, but to be fair that is “custard”. The flavors are very good, as is the original yogurt. I always stop here when I’m in the area. I would definitely try this place out if you haven’t yet!

Good workers

Food was very good but make sure to wear a coat. Not much heat, temperature was about 65 which would feel great in the summer but not winter time. Felt a draft all night.

They make their own ice cream, yummy. Must go to . Great after a date or anytime. They have great lunch specials too.

Good food excellent servers clean friendly people

The 2nd time weve been here one of my favorites. First time with our 2 year old son Waylon. He was able to try a few different ice cream flavors and loved the cows and the pig!!!

The food was delicious and we even got free coffee from the waitress because they made too much she said.

One of our favorite places to eat. Very family friendly. Nice staff. Italian beef and pulled pork is very good. Lots of great fun and unique ice cream flavors.

Put in an order of 2 burgers with no one else waiting on food. Took 22 minutes for then to come out. Both orders were incorrect which was quite aggravating. Although the food was delicious. Im going to have to give this place another shot.

The Spotted Cow Has excellent food. We were visiting them and it didnt take them long to come out with the orders for 11 people. The food was fresh and cooked to our specifications. We REALLY enjoyed ourselves.

Always love their ice cream so decided to try a meal from here. Got the bacon Sandwich and it was good but not enough bacon for the price

Theyre awesome! Food is always good! Friendly service, and very clean!

In the great Midwest of awesome Ice cream spots, the spotted cow stands above the herd.Moove over, Dairy Queen. Cold Stone, quit milking it! Hey Friendlys, isnt it pasture bedtime?

Clean, tastey food and very family friendly! I took my family and we loved the burgers & brownie sundae! Its pricey but well worth visiting if you havent yet.

Spotted Cow is a local favorite. What started as a small ice cream shop had really blossomed into a popular restaurant since its move to Glen. The ice cream is still just as good, and the cow-themed decorations are just as plentiful although not as tightly packed as in the Peoria Heights location. The ice cream flavors are always unique. You can get a moo-newer sundae or a cowpaccino. Or if you just want to try one of their many flavors (always adding something new like lavender or pumpkin), its great because you pay per ounce, so you get however much you want.As for the food, theres a good variety of American-style food items in the menu. You order at the counter then put your number on the table and take a seat. Sandwiches are in the $6-8 range. The Italian beef is a favorite, and I like their tuna melt, too. There are also things like burgers, onion rings, BLTs, pulled pork, hot dogs, chicken tenders, salads... a good variety.Fun fact: Vice President Joe Biden ate at the Spotted Cow during a visit to Peoria and they have (or at least had) a plaque at one of the tables indicating where he sat.

This is a Peoria landmark. The original owner made all kinds of ice cream, and it was always fresh and absolutely delicious. Im not sure if the new owner(s) have continued the tradition. I was not impressed with the strawberry ice cream (it didnt have the distinctive strawberry flavor or pieces of strawberry in it), but my son had the moo-nure flavor (chocolate with reeses peanut butter cups in it) and he thought it was fantastic. Give it a try!

The Spotted Cow is a great place to eat, with a decent selection of hamburgers and other things, as well as a great selection of high quality ice cream. The service has always been pretty good there as well. It is a little bit pricey for what you get, but not bad at all.

Okay for ice cream but pass on the other food items.Peoria style Italian beef 😦.Uninspired sandwiches, burgers are a joke.Possibly homemade french fries, but are greasy and served warm 😨.Wear a coat year round.Many other local establishments doing a better job.

Best burgers I had in awhile

Smelled like old food and dirty dishes. And the food was horrible. I question the cleanliness of their kitchen.

Very good food even though prices are too high

Ordered the tenderloin & tator tots...frozen food cook. Wasnt good. Could taste the frozen in it.

Okay ice cream friendly people prices arent in line with the flavor though seriously get some vanilla ice cream from the Spotted cow and a tub of ice cream Krogers brand Artesian vanilla $2. 50 for whole tub do a blind taste test youll be surprised

Food was great. I got a cheeseburger that was so good. Onion rings came with it and were a little overkill. Too greasy and there was too much breading and not enough onion. Other than that it was wonderful!!

Good, not great and priced too highStaff was friendly and helpful. The place is really big with lots of seating which was nice because I really expected a cramped little place. While our meal was good, it wasnt anything spectacular or anything that we would go out of our way to eat again. My husbands pastrami was not worth the price. Pulled pork sandwich was very good and so were the homemade onion rings. I got the brownie sundae because the ice cream flavors didnt really wow me. I didnt care for it at all because the brownie chunks were hard and crunchy. I prefer soft/chewy brownies. I ended up throwing away the last half of it because it was just plain vanilla ice cream, barely any hot fudge. My husband did enjoy his ice cream-strawberry oreo and twix. Its pretty expensive for what you get, hence the average rating.

Good food and homemade ice cream for a reasonable price. Unique system of paying by the ounce for scooped ice cream which is kinda neat. Great atmosphere too

Went in Saturday 4:30 in the afternoon. 1 guy in the back cooking and 1 guy at the counter taking orders, handing food out and fixing the ice cream. I go in wait on one to order ice cream and then he took my order for 2 milkshakes. Made the first order and waited on 4 young girls individual orders and then took the orders for a group of 3. Then he has words with the cook and headed to the back where the 2 almost came to blows. I couldnt hear them but I could see them. 10 minutes later he comes back and makes my milkshakes while food is waiting to be handed out and 3 people waiting in line. 30 minutes to get 2 milkshakes. Evidently management doesnt care about their lack of service. I wont go back

Great food. Friendly staff. The fries are hand cut and delicious. You cant go wrong with their burgers. Also, they make their own ice cream.

Very pleased with meal and service. The homemade tenderloin, fried mushrooms, and smaller cut fries were delicious. Did I mention all homemade!!??

Love the style 50s look. Awesome food and icecream

We had a very good experience. They were quick and courteous. Their high chairs and table were clean. Nice music in the background

The lavender fudge milkshake I had was terrific. Great service

Italian beef was really good, but the unsweetened iced tea was sour. Presume it had gotten warm. The staff promptly changed it out, but refills still were a little off, even after 3 tries. Not sure if new box had spoiled or the line still had old tea in it.

A Peoria staple for decades. The ice cream is made in-house, and the recipes are original to the creator. The place is very active in the community with a locally-sourced flavor idea. Food superb also.

Update- there was a time I would have said their chicken strips were the best in town. They recently chnaged chicken vendors... they say that is the only change but their chicken strips are fry and flavourless. Not juicy /tender, and flavorful anymore.The Italian beef is not Chicago style but it is delicious! I also really enjoy the chicken strips they are fresh real chicken! The ice cream is homemade and tasty. I like the green tea, lavender, lavender fudge, or a turtle sundea! The salads no come with option of ice Berg or spring mix which is awesome.

Large retro different kind of place, but the food was good, and fast... The Italian beef sandwich is wonderful... But the building itself is nothing particularly memorable.

We loved this place while attending Bradley, and go back whenever were visiting Peoria. Great ice cream, and cool that they actually make it on site!

Just had a simple BLT to start there with but hey let me tell ya they did it right. Will be going back to try other things on their menu now that I know how they handle their sandwiches. They mean business.

Very nice and excellent service.

Love supporting local. The ice cream is all homemade but try the turkey. It too is smoked in house. Great place for family.

2 chili dogs, sm fries $10.00. Taste alright but there pretty proud of their food.

Amazing portions. Decent prices. Diner feel.

Havent been here for a couple of years and was very disappointed in the fries. They were thin and stringy, not the wonderful ones I remember. My pork tenderloin was just okay. My friend said the ice cream wasnt as smooth as she remembers. What she had today was sort of icy. I understand the restaurant changed hands a while back, and maybe this is the explanation for the poorer products.

Very expressive but not to bad there ice cream is awesome