Shakeaway

Weird! Is the one word I’d use to describe both this shop and my experience.
I walked through the arcade, saw the word milkshake and got a little excited. I love an ice cream milkshake. It’s definitely one of my favourite treats. Shakeaway, unfortunately, is neither a favourite or a treat!
The milkshake was OK. I chose Cadburys Fudge and Milky Way from the huge menu. A great combo if I do say so myself. It was nice and think but there was far too many lumps of chocolate/​fudge/​milky way at the bottom. It hadn’t been blended well enough. It did taste really good — but I’m taking credit for that!
Why weird? Well, when we walked in, one of the members of staff, a guy, had gaffa tape over his mouth. The other was uncontrollably laughing as she served me and called me ‘Babe’ about 5 times in 2 sentences. They both then messed around, laughing and joking while I waited for my milkshake to half blend. It was a very odd experience. One where you find yourself pulling a confused face the whole time your in there, and ask yourself «WTF just happened?» when you leave!
The décor of the shop is very basic and tatty with plastic pots hanging on the wall with chocolate bars in. It looks more like the tuck shop at a youth centre, with staff to match!
However much I love milkshakes, I wouldn’t go back to Shakeaway!

I am such a fan of this place, especially if it’s a warm sunny day and you’re having a wander in town then grabbing a milkshake is a great thing to do. I personally love milkshakes, and the fact this place offers literally any type under the sun is definitely an attraction for me! They have around 50+ varietys and you can literally choose any thing you want — from crunchie, skittles, to fruits — and they will make you your personal shake! I would always recommend the oreo cookie milkshake, and since discovering how good this tastes I always without fail order this one…
Right, in terms of pricing it is actually quite steep, and perhaps you’d look at is as more of an occasional treat than an everyday thing because of this. For a regular sized milkshake with no special extras they charge £2.80, and with an increase in size and extra toppings you could even find yourself paying a fiver for a shake! Pretty expensive… So for this fact alone I will drop it a star. However, they do offer a loyalty card scheme, once you have bought ten milkshakes you get one free — you have to be a pretty avid fan (like me) to benefit from this though as you have to spend around £30 here before you get the freebie!

What an ugly, sickly little place. The anemic yellow décor and lame logo really do nothing to invite you in; looking through the windows, it looks like the foyer of a cinema, all space to queue but hardly any tables. In researching the shop, imagining I’d find it was a one-​off, I discovered it’s a worldwide chain and doing very well indeed. There’s an iPhone «app» to help you choose a shake … The people who work here are called «Shakettes» … I feel quite sad all of a sudden.
It’s teeny bopper heaven, and adult hell, with its overwhelming menu of milkshakes, some of them extraordinarily revolting-​sounding. Among them are «chocolate pop tart» and «orange marmalade» and «sherbet fountain». Oh, of course it’s an after-​school hangout for kids and they probably love the hideous sugariness of the whole place. I will never set foot inside here as long as I live.

Shakeaway always seems to be packed with teenagers hell bent on ordering the most calorific, sugar-​laden shakes ever.
If you can get past them, you’ll find the shelves stocked with every well-​known chocolate bar you can imagine, which you can then have blended into a shake, along with some milk or ice cream. Then, as if that wasn’t indulgent enough, you can wander over to the self-​service ‘toppings’ bar and pour on a combination of marshmallows, cream, syrup, and so on until your cup’s overflowing.
While I enjoyed my Daim bar shake, I did find it a bit sickly, and I haven’t found myself back there since. For extreme chocaholics and anyone with a sweet tooth, this is your dream shop — but not one you’d want to return to too regularly if you still want to fit through the door.

I’m not so sure about Shakeaway. Granted, there’s nowhere else you can get a lemon drizzle cake or Daim milkshake, made of the real thing, but reallt, is there too much choice? How do you choose one thing to put in a milkshake?
Also, I’d recommend not getting anything that’s going to go mushy when mixed with ice cream; my kinder bueno shake was full of wafer bits.
It is however, pretty impressive that they can get anything to blend down into icecream. But, and I feel a little guilty saying it, I’d sooner go for a Starbucks Frappucino any day.

If you’re looking for a sugar boost to help you get through a long day of shopping head to Shakeaway for a milkshake that should help you to overcome the crowds, queues, and general stressfulness that is a trip to Broadmead on a typical day (although the popularlity of this place means you’ll have to endure so crowds and queues to get your milkshake).
The milkshakes here obscenely rich, thick, sweet things that probably give you your GDA for fat about ten times over. Don’t worry about it to much though — you wont wont to eat anything else for a good couple of hours. They’ve got an extensive menu, with sugar puff flavour being amongst the weirder offerings. So for a super sweet milkshake thick enough to be a meal in itself head down to Shakeaway.

Despite the tacky exterior down near Cabot’s, and the cholestrol-​thickening menu of milkshakes, Shakeaways is a good place to treat yourself.
Saturday morning is not the time to visit — every other shopper in town ends up in the queue for a delicious fresh shake and they seem to make one at a very slow time, so you’ll be waiting a while.
The walls are lined with sweets, cookies, chocs and cakes — all of which they can blend together with milk or ice cream to give you a heart attack in a cup (I mean a very tasty, super-​filling snack drink).
In some ways it’s amazing. My Oreo cookie shake and my mate’s Kinder Bueno one were truly special — thick without being lumpy and really rich without being cloying (although there are weirder combinations on offer). A word of warning — this is lunch through a straw, hence the hefty price tags. You won’t be buying a pasty afterwards!
I avoided the self-​service toppings, but apparently there’s maple syrup, cream, malt etc to add to the top for an extra kick of sugar. All this plus a loyalty card and 10 per cent student discount. A sugary dream for the sweet-​toothed shoppers of Bristol.

This place is busy moat of the times that I have Been there.
They have a massive selection of milkshakes and they at a good price.
The ques do tend to be quite long but they do do a good shake.

Shakeaway is amazing. Here you can have milkshakes made from all sorts of flavours. The menu is extensive, shelves of sweets and cakes line the walls.
You can have an oreo cookies milkshake or a kinder bueno milkshake or if you wanted you can have the two combined. If you’re not sure what to have there are helpful suggestions and others that sound less desirable. As well as this they do toppings — maple syrup, cream, malt etc. Prices are quite good, plus they do a loyalty card like most coffee houses do.
They also offer a student discount. As with other Shakeaway branches it can get quite busy and hectic with so many shakes being made at once, so expect to queue. However, if you choose a good combination of flavours, I can assure you it will be worth the wait.