What Happened to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaurant?
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 5 Mission Viejo, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2026.
What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated 2026-09 marks Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant in Mission Viejo as closed, and Google Places separately lists the same address as permanently closed, corroborating that the mall location is no longer operating. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 5, Episode 8
- Address 799 The Shops Blvd, Mission Viejo, CA 92691
- Website No current website found
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
On "Ice Creamy", Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaurant featured the chain's signature big-format sundaes and old-fashioned soda-fountain presentation, part of the theatrical ice cream service Farrell's built its identity on since its 1963 founding in Portland, Oregon. This location operated inside The Shops at Mission Viejo mall, combining a full sandwich-and-burger restaurant menu with the ice cream parlour concept. The chain expanded to many locations nationwide over subsequent decades, and a number of them, including this Mission Viejo store, later closed. A Yelp listing updated 2026-09 marks the Mission Viejo restaurant as closed, and Google Places separately lists the address as permanently closed. Gayot's restaurant guide also lists the location as closed. No dated news source specific to this location's closure date was found.
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Record btiea-0457 · checked by Cal Marchetti.