Those prices for a shake: away with you! (Shakeaway)

Member Name: bruffyboy

Product:	Shakeaway
Date:	04/06/09 (31 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: taste

Disadvantages: price

Shake-away is a milkshake shop with a difference. Basically, you choose your ingredients, and they blend them all up with milk and ice-cream to make your milkshake. Sounds normal doesn't it? But what if I told you the ingredients you can choose from include Farley's Rusk, dime bar, fruit, cereal etc etc.

This shop is a franchise, doing it much better than a little cheap shop we used to have down the bottom of town. They have taken the art of blending ice-creams to a new level. One thing that is clever is how each blender is housed in a plastic box, which cuts off the sound so you're not just listening to the annoying sound of a blender all the time.

The whole place is a novelty shop, based around the novelty of having pretty much anything you like blended into a milk-shake. There are around 100 options to choose from, and I had the Reece's peanut-butter cups with chocolate sprinkles and topped with cream; it was stunning. It was so sweet, so well blended together, it just went down a treat!

Prices range from £2.75 for the most basic regular to £.3.75 for the large. This is a lot of money, and it's a bit overpriced but for the odd novelty every now and again I don't think it's too bad.

The shop itself was very basic - just a few seats, a counter and 3 blenders doing the, erm, blending. Despite this, there was a huge queue, which surprised me. In the corner of the room was a table football set-up, which the younger customers were playing on.

All in all, this is a nice enough shop, offering a tasty novelty drink ideal for these hot days, but the prices you wouldn't want to go here often.

Summary: up to you