A & W Root Beer Drive In
8220 Dexter Chelsea Rd, Dexter, MI, 48130
A & W Root Beer Drive In Menu
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Address :
8220 Dexter Chelsea Rd
Dexter, MI, 48130 - Phone (734) 426-4427
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Dinner
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : Yes
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Drive-Thru : No
Caters : No
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Colleen Z.
Wow, this drive-in takes me back to childhood when the family would go to dinner and eat in the car, plastic seatcovers and all. One drives up, parks and a server is at your car in seconds. Your order will be taken with a handheld electronic device and a cardboard number placed under your windshield wiper identifies your order with your car. The menu is handwritten on a whiteboard inside but no worries if you can't see it, your server will have a paper copy. Just turn on your car lights if you need anything and your server will, again, be at your service in mere seconds. The food is classic A & W Root Beer fare. The burgers are terrific, the onion rings just right and the fries are well, just fries. Menu has fried cheese curds, mushrooms and an extensive coney selection. But the best is the frosty rootbeer in a glass mug. Nothing beats it! Hours end at 8:00pm on M-Sat and 7pm on Sunday but don't miss this hidden treasure which provides a trip down memory lane.
(5)Criss D.
The waitresses needed a course in race relations. Racist staff!! Stay away from this place!
(1)Cathy B.
Who can hate on A&W? Drive up, turn your lights on when you're ready to order, a young waitress will come out to take your order and get a frosty mug of cold root beer. The burgers and fries are pretty standard fast food fare but sometimes that perfectly fills a craving! I'm so glad this place hasn't folded even though they could use a fresh coat of paint! Drive up and step back in time. Gets packed on the weekends when the weather is nice.
(5)Zack S.
One of the few remaining drive-in diners. The jugs of ice cold, freshly bottled root beer are way better than what's at the store. The food is the classic fare and for fast food it's pretty good.
(4)Beth H.
Great drive in spot for fast food. Fun kid drive in nights, motorcycle riders' stop for a break and refresh. Perfect family place.
(5)Laurie H.
Service is so slow it is crazy! They have 5-6 girls working there but each one takes a car and they aren't allowed to help each other out so food gets put up on the counter and ignored until customers turn on lights and honk horns, if you aren't parked right out front to witness it your food will be a cold and greasy mess!
(1)Allison L.
Visit this place for a blast from the past! My fiance and I parked here and then sat there like the newbies we were, wondering how to order. Luckily a girl walked over to our car and quickly took our order: a root beer float, hamburger, hot dog, cheese curds and reeses polar swirl. All for less than $15! We ate at a picnic table, which was a good idea because the food was messy! Everything was delicious, especially the cheese curds and polar swirl. I hope to return soon!
(4)Jen Z.
Cute place, but not cute food. My burger smelled gross and the lettuce was soggy. Menu was dirty. :( They folded my burger so tightly that the bun got folded into the wrapper. Fortunately, service was quick and courteous, and they even made eye contact (a rare thing)! Tip to business: please pay more attention to presentation!
(2)Cher M.
The new (well, ten years ago new) owners have updated this place fantastically. It looks fantastic, the electronic ordering the car hops use ensure the food is out fast, there's a nice outdoor eating area, and I just love the food. It's not healthy. This is fast food. It's so good tasting even if it's not good for me. The onion rings are great- not cornflakey tasting at all. A classic coney dog (sans onion for me) is awesome- just enough chili to cover the dog and fill the bun, but not so much that it soaks through the bun. And the root beer is amazing. Made every morning by literally mixing in a giant vat (I should know, I worked here about 15 years ago as a teen!) and is the best classic root beer I'be ever had. A root beer float here is just the thing on a summer day. This would be an excellent and unique date spot!
(5)Lucas D.
Drove in waited about 10 minutes. The place was not busy, multiple waitresses looked right at us, and did not serve us, but went to other cars that arrived after us! So needless to say, we didn't eat there.
(1)Tabitha M.
We got the best service on our visit! The drive in experience is fun. A&W fare is a great summertime treat: rootbeer floats and footlongs? Who doesn't love that?! Tip: they sell their rootbeer by the gallon, great for large orders.
(4)Suze A.
It's hot dogs, fries and root beer. It's not fine-dining, but a fun, kitchy, throw-back drive-in to have fun and visit while in Dexter. It's adorable and I love seeing the parking lot full. It'll always be a destination I head to when visiting my family in Dexter. Bring on the root beer!
(4)Sydney H.
Just today I went to a&w and it was packed with people. It didn't take long to be waited on or get our food so it was great I recommend you go there
(5)Michael V.
The food is just bad. I was not expecting great food, but the food I did receive was borderline unacceptable. Ya, it's a drive-in style restaurant, and there are even a few picnic tables if you decide to eat outside of your car; however, the ascetics cannot compensate for the food you pay for. I will say this: the root beer was excellent!
(2)Jessica A.
About what you'd expect. Eating in the car isn't quite the charming novelty experience it used to be, but A&W has some pretty good food. And at 11$ for dinner for two, the price is certainly a plus.
(4)Mae S.
Five stars for still being in business as a real drive-in (unless it folded very recently and I didn't hear). Tracts of new houses and big malls surround a core of incredible retro perfection in the village of Dexter. Drive out on Huron River Drive: better yet, ride your bike from Ann Arbor to Dexter and ignore everything around the historic center. And don't miss A&W!
(5)Kelli P.
Anything drive-in gets my heart pumping, so it's only natural that I would be drawn to this little gem in the heart of Dexter. If only we had more fast food places like this! The waitresses are friendly and provide prompt service, and the food is no different than any fast food place. My rating is solely based on atmosphere nostalgia, and I deducted one star for the flat root beer that I was served (although I loved the big chilled mug it came in). Give it a try on a nice summer or fall evening!
(4)Heather J.
Drive-ins hearken back to a time when Americans trusted their iron-haired newscasters, appliances could solve every household problem, and children looked forward to a future of sprocket factories and floating jet-cars in cities populated by Space Needles and floating sky-bridges. Just like childhood idealism, few of them have survived well through the Me-Me-Meness of the 80s and gritty 90s when Starbucks appeared on every other corner. We may have sacrificed our fast food diversity and the battered dream of jet-cars, but driving up to a place where perky employees deliver choice meals up to your window remains a shining hope in our hearts. A&W in Dexter, just up the road from Ann Arbor, offers a flashback to this simpler, happier time when recessionista and high carb diet were not part of our daily vocabularies. Outside the downtown area, the restaurant perches on the slope of a hill and boasts all the spare lines of an old-time drive-in. Simply park in an open spot, flash your lights when you are ready, and a cheerful waitress (or waiter, gender unbiased) will come out promptly to take your order. The service when I visited was quick, friendly, and enthusiastic. Going over my order for completeness and accuracy, she hustled back inside and was back in a flash to complete payment. Five minutes and I had fries, a cheeseburger, and a root beer to go. Curbside service with a smile and reasonable prices go a long way to cementing a faithful clientele, I bet, and there is the nostalgia factor playing in heavily. Couple that to the charm of a quieter small-town way of living that Dexter exudes, and A&W has a lock on quaint ambiance. However, a restaurant has to earn its stars on the basis of taste and food quality, not just adorable appearance and vivacious waitresses alone. Sadly, it is here A&W falls quite short of the mark. Fries are not usually something to write home about, but mine were at best warm and not especially salted. I did get a generous portion, however, which made up for a bit of the dissatisfaction for less than toasty french fries. The real problem, however, was the cheeseburger. My sadly smooshed patty oozed big pickle slices (yay) and a Kraft single-like slice (boo) in a partial state of melt, and while I am far from demanding about the appearance of a hamburger, the flavour left something to be desired. It wasn't the usual delicious A&W burger experience I have come to associate with the chain, but something possibly out of a Made-Rite or a low-scale restaurant fryer. It was greasy, a bit sloppy, and the flavour seemed wrong. I blame some of the displeasure on the cheese, which had the waxy consistency of a rain jacket. My culinary experience didn't live up to my hopes, and I satiated my sorrows on a cider doughnut from Dexter's Cider Mill all the way to Jackson.
(2)Julia S.
A previous reviewer wrote: "Who can hate on A&W?" Me. I can. After driving past its old-timey facade many times, my husband and I decided to stop in and take a trip back to the past with their curbside service. (His past, I should note; not mine.) The service was prompt and friendly and the food came quickly. Except that doesn't count for much when the food's pretty terrible. We both had burgers which were like the steam-table burgers from a high school cafeteria. Fries were standard. Worst of all? My husband wanted to revisit his childhood with a frosty mug of root beer. But it was flat. Which is gross. So, yeah, I'm all for nostalgia but this just wasn't our thing.
(1)Sarah W.
This is the only drive in I know of in this area. It's perfect, you feel like your in the middle of no where (cause you kind of are) discovering some hidden secret. After you have been hanging out at the lake all day its perfect to stop by for a ice cold root beer in a glass mug. If your hungry the cheeseburger is really good! This is such a spring/summer thing you should drive all the way out here just to eat. Service in your car, such a rarity! They do have inside seating if you choose and to go options. I hope this place never goes out of business.
(4)A. G. U.
My favorite fast food place. Good food and fast friendly service. Old time drive in - only one of its kind in the area.
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