Annette's Italian Ice — Restaurant in Chicago

CASH ONLY

We have never been here and waited in line last night for 30 minutes or so (not a problem, Jeni’s was closed down the street and it was a nice summer night). We pulled up the website on our phones to look at the menu and pricing. Once we got up to place our order and I took out my card, the lady told us it was cash only. Of course we didn’t have any cash on us. She didn’t even offer to let us go to an ATM and just come back up and she’d let us order right away or anything. So we had to walk away.

We were surprised that waiting in line and visiting their website that we couldn’t find anywhere that said they were cash only. Especially at a time when most companies are avoiding cash due to covid, I feel that should be advertised at least on your website and a sign at your place. Unless we completely missed it somewhere??? I even double checked the menu and pricing on their website, nothing says cash only.

We will try again soon but just bummed that we couldn’t even grab cash real quick and skip the line instead of waiting another 30 minutes or...

Bring cash and be prepared to wait. Took me about 35 mins at 8:30 on a Friday night.

I was immediately intrigued with the peanut butter frozen yogurt as I am a fiend. The first bite was delicious as that peanut butter flavor was present, but after that it went away and I really couldn’t even taste it anymore. It became the most subtle nut flavor and if I was blind taste testing it, I wouldn’t be able to tell it was peanut butter. While that quickly became a disappointment, the chocolate frozen yogurt was much better. Very rich cocoa taste and more than sweet enough for me. It really carried the cup and would be something I get again. Finally, I’m not sure how to describe this but the frozen yogurt was too cold for my liking. I don’t know if the machine was set at a lower temp but it just felt colder than normal which deterred from the experience.

Would I come here again? Yes. Would I wait in that line? No. Lots of options which I will be sure to try on some hopefully...

Our family had been looking for a real good Italian Ice place for years.We were told Taylor Street was good and it WASN'T.. however, found this cute lil. place on a cute corner in the Chi & Annette's is the BEST.So our family now has a great Italian Ice place that we hope always stays open.We have been coming here for yrs. now.Its a long drive from where we R but, sooo worth it.My best story a few yrs back our AC played out after making our drive up there and on that day it was Summer and the heat index was hell and Annette's Italian Ice is made so fresh & good that it really helped us endure the day with the extremely hot humid drive home and best of all it stayed cold the whole way back 1 hr. & 20 mins.Dont know how else we would've handled that...