Gourmet Junction: Play-doh Ice Cream and The Mayor’s Wife! | Living In Plainfield IL
Jun 13th, 2007 by Julie
Last night we headed out to the downtown Plainfield area for Cruise Night on Lockport St. with some friends. My husband Tony and I love old cars, so we were really excited to make it out to the strip for the first time this summer.
We invited our friends Brian and Danielle Kulpit, and their two children to join us… before long, we were in route to Gourmet Junction for some hand-dipped ice cream cones. I read off the flavors that were available to the kids; vanilla, chocolate, butter pecan, strawberry, play-doh, cookie dough…. WAIT! Did you catch that too? Play-Doh flavored ice-cream?!
I questioned the employee… with a strange look I’m sure, “do you really serve ice-cream that tastes like Play-Doh?”
She started laughing. I guess it’s really just vanilla ice-cream dyed blue, with colored chunks of sugar cookie dough in it!
It wouldn’t be hard to guess which flavor all the kids picked. (and just for the record, I did too :))
Our husbands, the macho car buffs that they are, opted for old-fashioned A&W Rootbeer floats, topped with whip cream. 
We loved really loved the ice-cream, and the store, so I decided that I should write about it here to share with everyone. I introduced myself to one of the the owners, Mary Anne Waldorf, and mentioned that I’m an real estate agent in Plainfield. I told her that I write about the community, events, and local area businesses on my webpage. I asked Mary Anne if she had any more business cards, and she ran in back to grab me one. When she came back, she actually had two in her hand.
One for Gourmet Junction, and one for her husband, The Plainfield Village President… James A. Waldorf!
Mary Anne and Jayne Schorr are quite the hostesses! In fact Danielle and I agreed we will be coming back to treat ourselves and our daughters to an afternoon tea party and leave all of those boys of ours at home! In fact, this Thursday, June 14th they are hosting “A Tulip Tea” from 11:00am until 7:00 pm . Just call 815-439-3933 for reservations!
Gourmet Junction not only serves ice-cream and tea, but offers customized designed gift baskets, confections, and gourmet specialties.
Gourmet Junction is located at 505 W. Lockport St. in downtown Plainfield on the west side of the street.
Sometimes I forget how much I love Lockport St. and the downtown area! That is until I’m down there for events like Tuesday Night Cruise Night, or other community events that takes place downtown. You can come on down for Cruise night every Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 9:00pm through the end of summer. Cruise night is sponsored by several of the Lockport St. retailers, as well as other local area businesses.
Julie Ferenzi | Realtor®
Plainfield IL Homes
630-673-6233
Julie… my mouth is watering. I want to hop on a plane and visit right now. It’s over 100 here in our neck of the woods today and I could use a root bear float!
Play-doh ice cream. I have to admit I pictured the Mayor’s wife sculpting an ice cream scoop out of play-doh. I can smell it now. Your description makes me want to run right out and get some. The tea party sounds like lots of fun. Have a wonderful time!
Wow, great title, you got my attention….I too envisioned the mayor’s wife doing something with playdough, lol. I think it is time to go eat some ice cream now!
We are Gourmet Junction fans. Yes, the food is good, but the owners are really nice people. Before my mother-in-law moved to Lakewood Nursing Home, more than once, Jim and Mary Ann gave her a ride home when the weather turned.
They are the kind of people who make Plainfield such a nice place. If one of us has to be in town on any given morning, we order out and bring GJ sandwiches to the whole office up here in Oakbrook Terrace.