Dairy Joy is a lovely local ice cream place. It is important to note that they are one of the rare places that only accept cash, that it's an outdoor seasonal food stand with no facilities for guests, and that some of the picnic table areas outside often have a lot of bees. The ice cream is very good, with nice soft serve flavors such as raspberry. They also serve fried seafood and sandwiches. It is pretty expensive, though, so we don't visit as often as we otherwise would like to.

A MUST DO! 4 STARS! It's Time to jump into The TimeMobile & scour the Earth & take you to places from a different time that you won't believe still exist.  We have set the dial to 1961 in the town of Weston MA outside of Boston. We've landed at a Vintage Ice Cream Shack called Cedar Hill Dairy Joy. You can get an Old School Classic Soft Serve Flavor that has pretty much disappeared from today's ice cream landscape. Dairy Joy serves an Orange Sherbet Soft Serve mixed together with a Vanilla Ice Cream soft serve in a Twist. They call it Creamsicle & was hugely popular on ice cream trucks & stands in the 60's & 70's. The Creamsicle soft serve flavor tastes completely different than the frozen one found in the supermarket aisles. If you want to taste what people were eating for desserts Back in The Day then you've got to make a pit stop here. The Creamsicle was GOOOOOD & the Vanilla & Chocolate Mix which they they call Marble Twist was also GOOOOOD! They also serve - Javaberry a flavor created totally by accident. It's a Raspberry Sherbet swirled with a Coffee Ice Cream Twist. Yet another Sherbet & Ice Cream Combo. They also serve burgers, chicken fish & onion rings French fries etc- Beach Staples. I can't comment on the food because all we got was the ice cream. They are only open Seasonally & Cash Only but they do have an ATM onsite. After a long cold bitter snowy winter everyone on the East Coast is desperately waiting for spring to finally arrive. There's the chirping of the birds, the rebirth of the flowers & trees & then there's the re-opening of Dairy Joy. This is a right of passage & tradition for many people. Yup, it's a Big Deal. Then they do it all again when they close up shop in October & people try to catch that last bit of summer before the cold winter sets in again. They have Free Parking & you can eat your ice cream on their classic picnic tables & umbrellaed tables surrounded by lots of trees. Their large letters on their logo sign looks like Kids arranged Blocks that have been placed in a slightly ajar pattern just like kids would do. It's not perfectly aligned. It's just a Return to a Much Simpler Time. When the sun starts to set, on comes the old school fluorescent long tube white lights that have a slight tinge of yellow to them. The Creamsicle isn't something new that they are bringing back from the past. They've been doing this for over 60 years, but locals have kept it a secret to themselves & didn't tell anybody else. Most people didn't even know that this Creamsicle soft serve even existed. Dairy Joy used to have 3 locations including Hudson & Watertown. This Weston shop is the last one left & it's still family owned by The Maxwells. Boston Magazine had a featured article called Where to Find the Best Soft-Serve Ice Cream in Greater Boston Dairy Joy was one of the shops they named. The Best Soft-Serve Ice Cream in Greater Boston Dairy Joy has also appeared on the Boston Globe newspaper's top list for 2023 with the article 20 of the best ice cream stands in Massachusetts Dairy Joy also offers the classics soft serves like straight up vanilla & chocolate or a mix of both & sherbets too. They also have Floats, Frappes, Dipped Cones, Sundaes, Rasberry Lime Rickey's & other dessert & ice cream concoctions. You come here to get something Old School, unique, different & very hard to find @ an authentic Vintage Ice Cream Stand. It used to be, you had to have Mega Bucks & be really Rich to have the Good Life, not anymore. The Game has changed. You've been Upgraded. Now You Can Live Like a King on a Limited Budget!

Truthfully, Dairy Joy does not have the best fried clams or ice cream, but the roadside stand offers a quintessential taste of summer in New England. If you are looking for something nostalgic, I would recommend stopping by. I believe Dairy Joy is at least 60 years old by this point. The lines get pretty long in warmer weather but it's a nice place to bring the kids.

We stopped by after leaving Walden Pond and just got some ice cream. But this place seems like a little gem. The soft serve ice cream was very good, and the food that others had looked delicious. The fact that they only took cash was a bit of a hassle, but otherwise I'd love to go back and get a "real meal" at this place. It's seems to be the last of a dying breed of old time ice cream stands.

Nice vintage vibe ice cream and classic American food spot in Weston. My family and I go every spring/summer. I had Lobster Roll (pretty good - solid) Dairy free chocolate cake ice cream (good, but should order after I ate, as melted bit)

A quick ice cream stop, yes please! We stopped by dairy joy as part of my search to find the best soft serve. They have it listed as having dairy free options, but when we came there weren't any available. We came around late lunch time, so there was a line and I was excited to try the creamsicle soft serve. While we were waiting there was a lady who came back and said the creamsicle flavor was off, so I ended up just getting a plain medium twist cone. They are a cash only spot, but they do also have an ATM if you need. This medium cone was no joke huge and very filling. It was soft and creamy and could in itself be a meal. They also have fried seafood and plenty of tables if you're looking to sit down and have a meal outside. Overall, a pretty good spot to get soft serve, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get it again.