Beacon Drive In

Hey, it’s a burger joint.
I give it a 4 star just to make up for the snoots who give it 1’s and 2’s.
It’s a burger joint.
Walk up to the window, order, take your grub to the patio and enjoy.
Take an ice cream and go over to the park to see the peacocks.
You want a fancy $ 20 burger, walk a few blocks to Milestones and leave this place to the park and dog folks. Kids like it and so do I.
It’s a burger joint, c’mon.

I was told that this drive in was all the rage for ice cream. But I was slightly disappointed.
I had a soft serve sundae with chocolate sauce. Pretty standard. It was a fair amount of ice cream and the chocolate sauce was warm. However, I felt the prices were a bit expensive for soft serve ice cream. But, why not give it a go? Seems to be a Victoria thing to do.

Cool location, lacking in flavour.
This place is less sweet than your regular mcdonald’s and dairy queen, which is a good thing for me as i do not have a sweet tooth. However, i find the flavour a little bland as it lacks the milkiness. Really great location tho! If you are tired from the walk in the park, hit this little place up and get some refreshment!
Tip: Go inside the building and order. The lineup is less crazy

I go here for the ice cream and the memories of my grandma taking me here when I was younger. Despite being popular with tourists, this place is a diner and sells diner food. There is nothing special about the food here, it’s consistent, quick and conveniently close to the beach and beacon hill park. Every time I come to Victoria I make sure to pay this place a visit for old times sake.

Looking for a breakfast sandwich to eat in the car on the way to work? DON’T get it here! You bite into these breakfast muffins and liquid egg yolk squirts out all over your clothes and drips into your lap. I thought the purpose of the breakfast sandwich was to be portable — why else put all the breakfast foods in a stack that you can hold with one hand? The English muffin wasn’t crispy, either, it was limp and wet. The egg was wet. The whole thing was awful and I had to go home and change clothes. Yuck, never going back.

Can’t say anything about the ice cream, but the poutine was yummy. Fairly big portions for the price. The set up was a little strange with an inside and an outside counter for ordering. It wasn’t really clear that when we ordered outside, that our food would be given to us inside.

Came here on a hot summer day for ice cream. I don’t think I’ll come back to this establishment, it just wasn’t anything too flavorful. The menu is limited and out of the three items we all got none of them were very great. I had a root beer float which was Barq’s root beer and some soft serve together. My hubs had a raspberry shake and I knew things weren’t going to be good when I saw the lady pumping the vanilla syrup into the soft served. Also got their version of a blizzard, Oreo flavor. Minimal Oreos and just not a whole lot of flavor. It wasn’t cheap either.

I went here because I had heard that the soft serve was the best. Unfortunately, I’m not really impressed. I walked in and ordered the blueberry soft serve burst. When I went to pay, the lady said she only took debit or cash which I didn’t want to use. However, she did say she takes American cash with an extra charge. After paying, the lady said the machine was not ready to dispense and said it would take a few minutes to warm up. So we sat down and then were forgotten for 20minutes. I had to walk up and ask them for the soft serve. She made it and it was slanting as I walked out. The taste was nothing special at all and not worth $ 3.50. I would have gone to the Soda Shoppe again for a milkshake.

Just terrible. Go here if you want to feel sick afterwards.

I would never eat here again. the burgers were flavourless and my yam fries tasted off. it was awful.

A popular place for both locals and tourists, this small diner has a cute retro feel to it. What’s crazy is the amount of line ups both inside and outside ordering food.
The menu is pretty basic, sandwiches, burgers and dogs, and ice-​cream. Everything on the menu was reasonably priced and tasted pretty good. They were voted best soft-​serve ice cream and I saw everyone ordering it, so… of course I had to try it out. Yeah, I have to say, the soft serve cone was pretty tasty !!

THE SERVICE AT THIS PLACE SUCKS. The only thing keeping them going is the fact they have been a Victoria institution for over 50 years.
Strike 1: They had a small sign that advertised 2^nd sundae at 50% off at the order window but would not honor it. I offered to give the order person the sign so the next customer would not see it but they refused– false advertising much???
Strike 2: Said they don’t take Visa but have a visa/​mastercard accepted sign in the window.
Strike 3: Vey surly staff.
A great way to ruin your trip to beacon Hill Park. I lived in Victoria for close to 30 years and used to love this place. Sad to see a part of Vics history in such a crappy state.

I needed fruit or juice and Beacon Drive-​In appeared. I’m glad they gave me a choice (bottle or cup) on the orange juice. It jolted energy like you would not believe. I started running along the water.

I drove by here by accident, and came back for dinner later that day. The food was below average. The place is a throw back to an old 70s burger stand. The «drive thru» is an outdoor stand with a smallish parking lot for people who want to eat in their cars or take it to go.
I had a deluxe burger. It’s basically a McDonald’s quarter pounder if they used fresh cut vegetables. The patty tastes just about the same. The halibut is like a Filet O’Fish, with a thicker cut of fish and lettuce. I can appreciate In-​N-​Out much more compared to this.
Things did look up when it came to dessert. I ordered the chocolate shake. Although it wasn’t as thick as some I’ve had before, it was very chocolately and thick enough to be quite satisfying. But the soft serve cone, as simple as it sounds, was simply delicious. Super creamy, and it strangely didn’t melt at all when I was busy chowing it down. That alone is really the only reason to visit and is 5 stars on it’s own. But my overall experience evened out with the sub-​par food.

Ordered the screaming cheeseburger combo… the best soft ice-​cream to follow! Congratulations on 53 years!

5 stars for the soft serve; 4 stars for the retro drive-​in, sit-​in-​the-​park-​a-​la-​1980s-​Sunday-​Americana ambience; 3 stars overall for food and service. BH grew up with this place and he swears it hasn’t changed one bit from the 1980s. Still making the best goddamn soft serve in all of Vancouver Island.
One thing that seriously bothered me was the tip portion you can’t bypass on their cash machines. As in it gives you the option to tip a dollar amount or a percentage. It’s a fast food, mostly self-​serve joint for crying out loud! When they do deliver food to your table, it’s literally plopping-​down-​a-​tray– of-​food-​on-​your-​table. I thought gratuity is something optional, a little pat on the back for great service, not an expected extra expense for customers patronizing a business. Maybe I’m just traditional that way. That being said, this place is still alive because of the awesome views of the park, great ice cream and the fact that they have no competition in the area.

The food is okay, i was excited that they had sweet potato fries, which apparently is normal for the places of Canada. I was not happy about the fact that they didn’t have ranch. I mean really WTF?
It didn’t take that long for us to get our food, especially considering the crowd that filled the place inside and out. I really enjoyed reading the article on the wall about a man who has been frequenting this place since he was a little boy because how much he loves his bacon! And how much he loves bacon from this place.
Now, the ice cream which is what everything else was noting about on the walls was claimed to be «The best». So, we decided to try that as well. It was okay, not the best I have ever had, but i enjoyed it.

cute little stand by the park. Dipped ice cream.

Was expecting to be knocked out of this world based on the reviews. Hasn’t anyone heard of DQ before?
Not amazed at all. Cool spot though, and I’m glad to see a local shop instead of a chain. Support it before it gets bought out by Baskin Robbins.

When I visited Victoria with my girlfriend, one of the build-​ups for the trip was to go have «the best soft serve in the world». Now I am a self-​professed ice cream nut, which my girlfriend is firmly aware of, so hearing this boast required verification.
We went to Beacon’s on a rainy Tuesday and I ordered the large soft server dipped in chocolate. And the verdict? It’s really good. Compared to other soft server I have tasted it is much richer. Seems to help keep it together as well as it didn’t drip all over my hand like most soft serve. Definitely going to be a regular stop in Victoria for an ice cream lover like me.