Drop in for an Orange Dream milkshake and you'll be instantly transported back to the soda jerk days of sock hops and poodle skirts. Make sure to complete the survey online before you go and get that milkshake for free!
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Voted "Best Breakfast" by locals since 2003, it's one of the only places in America that you can watch a family of moose ....meese? ....mooses? ....walk down the street while enjoying your apple pie milkshake. You won't find that one on the menu, though. Every month there is a creative "milkshake of the month" to try!
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If you're looking for a creative and colorful milkshake, Paradise Valley Burgers delivers with the Lucky Charms Marshmallow milkshake. Remember when you were a kid and just ate the marshmallows behind? This may be the only acceptable way for adults to still do that.
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A cool 50's-esque diner decked in purple is the first indicator that this place does things a little differently. So why would a vanilla milkshake in a purple diner called Purple Cow NOT be purple? I bet it's made from the milk of a purple cow. Wait....I see what they did there!
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For a classic "only in California" experience, visit the Ice Cream Bar and order the Too Good to Be True Milkshake. This old fashioned delight is shaken with ice and milk and mixed with Juliet’s rye-based butterscotch syrup, eggs, malted cream, and blackstrap molasses. To be sure, this is the best the Bay Area has to offer!
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Lots of places either have clever names or amazing milkshakes and few of them have both. Crave is one of those places that manages to dazzle your taste buds and your ear buds at the same time. Serving up classics like Oreo Speedwagon and the Karmel Chameleon as well as adult kickers like Banana's Foster and the Grasshopper.
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The Extra Rich Milkshake might look like Clark Kent, but inside it packs a Superman punch! They will even let you choose from over 40 flavers of ice cream to make your shake. Voted Best in the State of Connecticut, this milkshake has been made the same way since the restaurant opened in 1939!
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Not only can you get a giant, hand-dipped milkshake in a variety of flavors, but you can also get a sundae with 20 scoops of ice creatm. Twenty scoops! The Charcoal Pit is known in the area for going big before you go home and the milkshake is no different.
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If fancy milkshakes are more your jam, then Cousteau's is top 40. Specializing in over-the-top milkshakes that barely fit in their containers, they know how to keep cool in the hot, nine month long summers of Florida. The Electric Jellyfish is a refreshing blueberry and vanilla mixture and the Calypso is basically a key lime pie blended in a frosty glass. Can't go wrong here, my friends.
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A clever little burger joint in Atlanta has managed to combine gourmet burgers and salads with gourmet milkshakes to round out their overall flare. The Turtle and Candied Pecan milkshake sticks it's head out just above the frosted glass to let you know you've made a great decision!
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We can't imagine a better place to try a fruity milkshake than Hawaii! Everything is so fresh it makes your mouth water just thinking about it. The pineapple or pina colada milkshakes are both perfect for chilling out on the beaches of one of the most beautiful places on earth!
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This classic drive-in not only features a delicious milkshake in just about every flavor, but they carry root beer floats, juicy burgers, and golden Idaho potato fries! This is not a place you go to lose weight. It's a place to toss back a delicious blackberry or chocolate shake to chase fried delights!
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Portillo's has been serving up fresh hot dogs in Chicagoland since 1963. The Chocolate Cake shake mixes chocolate ice cream, milk, and bits of chocolate cake, giving customers the feeling that they can actually have their cake and drink it too! Wait...did we mess that up?
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The Big Ugly burger here goes perfectly with one of Bub's specialty, hand-dipped milkshakes. You can choose a plain flavored classic like chocloate, vanilla, or strawberry, but why not live dangerously? Bub offers several speciaty milkshakes like cookies’n'cream, cookie dough, mint chocolate chip, black cherry, cinnamon crumb, praline pecan or peanut butter.
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One of the most clever and eccentric locations on our list, Zombie Burger is a smattering of goremet milkshakes straight out of zombieland! Interesting mashups include the Zombie Unicorn (vanilla ice cream, marshmallow cream, Fruity Pebbles), The Talahassee (vanilla ice cream, Twinkie, blended cherries, cherry Kool Aid powder), and the Human Centipeach (vanilla ice cream, white cake batter, peach purée, graham cracker crumbs). Survive the apocolypse with a brain freeze at Zombie Burger!
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Freddy's is an unconventional burger diner, serving steakburgers and steak fingers along with a delicious frozen custard milkshake instead of the classic ice cream shake. This chocolate or vanilla shake is a smooth treat that perfectly tops off a steakburger basket!
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Try the Nutella or the Reeses milkshake when you drop by Lexington's "Best Burger" winner, Tolly Ho. These hand-spun milkshakes are a crowd favorite for those with a chocolaty sweet tooth, but they also offer classic shakes and a banana milkshake to round out the menu. You can't miss with any of them!
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New Orleans is known for it's food culture and the abundance of alchohol. Restaurant Stanley manages to combine something simple like the milkshake with your favorite cocktails to create a fun way to beat the heat!
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Don't let the name throw you, these guys know how to make a seriously good milkshake! The Original Duckfat Milkshake is made from vanilla gelato with crème anglaise & fresh Tahitian vanilla bean. We also recommend the Sea Salted Duckfat Caramel milkshake if you like things that are awesome.
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"Papermoon Diner offers a few creative additions to our milkshake list with items such as the Chunky Monkey, made with vanilla ice cream and blended with espresso, chocolate syrup, and bananas. You'll be flying high over the moon after that one! Also highly recommended are the Carmel and Sea Salt shake or the Bacon Milkshake made with maple syrup and bacon crumbles blended with either vanilla or chocolate ice cream. As we all know, bacon makes everything better, right? "
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Tasty Burger is right outside of Fenway Park and has been serving Bosox fans some of the best burgers and shakes for decades. What you want to try here is the Green Monster, a mint chocolate chip milkshake named after the famous high wall in left field at the park. Just like most visiting teams, you won't be able to get over it!
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While mercury bar serves thick, classic milkshakes, they also offer a few interesting "adult" milkshakes. Try a Boston Cooler which is a mixture of vanilla ice cream and Vernor's or the Hummer, consisting of Kahlua, dark rum, and vanilla ice cream.
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Most burger joints serve milkshakes, but St. Clair's sends the tin out with the shake ensuring you get everything you paid for! The Salted Caramel and Cinnamon Graham Cracker shakes are particularly good, but this midwestern town's favorite is the Hot Fudge Milkshake. We wonder how they keep the fudge hot and the milkshake cold at the same time? Probably by using the same magic it was created with.
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You know you've got a special place when you can combine a diner with a drug store and people still want to hang out there. Now a diner only, Brent's makes the best PB & J inspired milkshake around. It's vanilla ice cream with peanut butter and strawberries and drinking it feels like 2nd grade again! Only, don't ask your mom to cut off the crust of your milkshake. That's just sad now. Instead, buy her Brent's Maltdown milkshake with crushed Whoppers or the Orange Dreamsicle milkshake. She'll love it.
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If you can drink five milkshakes in half an hour, they're free! That's the game at St. Louis' oldest soda fountain. The Butterscotch Malted Milkshake is a crowd favorite as is the Johnny Rabbit Special made with fresh banana malt with whipped cream, nuts and nutmeg. This place has been defining the milkshake since 1913, so when you visit, make sure you're hungry.
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Top your milkshake with caramel, butterscotch, chocolate, or a variety of others and add to the already delicious ice cream flavor of your choice for a unique milkshake flavor all your own! Also, if you'd like to pretend your milkshake is healthy for a second, Big Dipper has a Chai Tea infused milkshake as well.
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Omaha may be famous for steaks, but Petrow's takes foodservice a step further by creating thick, malty shakes for an after-dinner treat. Their homemade vanilla shake is amazing by itself, but it doesn't hurt to add a little hot fudge to it for only a few cents more!
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Everything about this place seems like a bad idea, but hey, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? The milkshakes here are so thick, they probably break 2-3 blenders per month. If you want to find out what a milkshake tasted like before we were health-conscience, here's your chance. Just sign the medical waiver and have fun! ...Because you might die.
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The Sea Salt+Carmel+Pretzel milkshake on the menu here sounds like the most perfect thing ever created by a soda jerk! Normally, when you think of New Hampshire, you probably think of nature and fine dining and lots of rich people. Well, BRGR BAR wants to change that, one milkshake with brownie bits and chocolate syrup at a time!
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At Holsten's, there's a milkshake, and there's a heavy milkshake. The heavy is made with more ice cream of your choice to really thicken it up, forcing you to eat it with a spoon. This place has a few interesting variations of the classic milkshake including a seltzer, cream, and flavoring combo as well as a malted milkshake.
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The Shake Foundation features an Adobe Mud Shake, which includes your choice of many daily ice cream flavors. You'll need the chilled milkshake after trying one of their all-natural green chili burgers. In New Mexico, the chilis are bolder so the shakes are colder!
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Easily the most elaborate selection of milkshakes on the list, Black Tap creates desserts unlike anything we've seen before. It's more an experience than an actual milkshake, you see. The Brooklyn Blackout, a chocolate frosted rim with mini chocolate chips topped with a chocolate brownie, chocolate drizzle & whipped cream milkshake stretches high above the rim of the container, much like the buildings of NYC that surround it. The other crazy shake that caught our eye was the Cookie Shake, made with cookie crumbles topped with a ‘cookiewich’, crumbled cookies, chocolate chips, whipped cream & chocolate drizzle on top. Don't go to their Instagram feed hungry. That's torture.
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Cook Out is more than a burger hut with a few good milkshakes; it's a milkshake holy site. With over 40 different milkshake flavors, there's a dairy drink for everyone. Just a few choices include pineapple, Hi-C punch, banana pudding, Snickers, mint chocolate chip, watermelon, and egg nog.
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Most often recognized by it's "Kroll's Ladies," the motto behind the stern-faced ladies is "Sit down and eat!" The German-American diner knows their way around a mixer and customers can turn any of their thick, hand-scooped hard ice creams into a shake.
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The good people at United Dairy Farms use a special malt base to construct their hand-dipped delights, giving them a unique-tasting milkshake. While many of the standard flavors such as vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry are available year round, other flavors like raspberry, peach, and egg nogg only make their appearances when they are in season. Locals know not to miss those spectacular, time-sensitive shakes!
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The milkshakes at Tucker's are specially crafted to compliment their Oklahoma-style onion burgers. Though they may only offer vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry flavors year round, they do a great job coming up with creative seasonal milkshakes. Just ask the "Bag Master" (hopefully not some in-store DJ) about seasonal specials!
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Half diner, half restaurant, the Original Dinerant is all about fusion. You will find some interesting entree combinations here that look amazing as well as interesting milkshake-cocktail fusions. Of course, you can order standard, kid-friendly milkshakes in flavors like chocolate peanut butter or cookies and cream, but the adult shakes like the Knight Rider, The Dude, and The Salty Jim (which sounds like a punk band name) will have you flying by the time you hit the bottom!
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They've got a Helluva Burger perfectly paired with a Heavenly Shake. Burgatory Bar is a locally sourced restaurant that buys milk from the dairy down the road and makes their own ice cream in house. Kids will love the Cookie Monster shake with chocolate chip cookies and the adults might enjoy Choco's Taco, stuffed with a crushed waffle cone, fudge, peanuts, and spiked with chocolate vodka.
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For such a small state, this Rhode Island has a huge menu! Everything from farm fresh eggs to burgers to steaks are prepared to whet the appetite for a tall "Awful Awful." Don't worry, that's the name of the signature milkshake, not a food critic review. The Awful Awful (or as we like to call it, the AA Bomb) comes in several flavors such as Vanilla, Chocolate, Coffee, Strawberry, Mint, Cotton Candy, Orange, Bubble Gum, Chocolate Mint, and Mocha.
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Grill Mark's boasts the "Best Milkshake Around" in Colombia, SC. They make their own ice cream in store with farm fresh eggs, heavy cream, and Madagascar Vanilla. The two shakes that stand out from the rest of the list are the White Chocolate Peppermint (can't believe we haven' seen this yet on the list!) and the Chocolate Chili Bacon milkshake. Challenge accepted, chocolate chili bacon!
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There's more than mountains with faces on them in South Dakota! Sioux Falls is home to this colorful diner where locals can pick up an Elvis shake with peanut butter, bananas, and honey and hang by the jukebox. The Strawberry Cheesecake and Chocomint Crunch made with chocolate chips and oreos are local favorites as well!
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The Burger Republic stands for defending quality food and service. That's why their shakes are something founding fathers would be proud of! They use Godiva chocolate in their Assasination by Chocolate Milkshake and while it won't kill you, it wouldn't exactly be the worst way to go. Since this is Tennesee, you can be that their spiked shakes like the Boozy Cookie Butter or The Kentucky Thunder will have a little kick to go along with their chill.
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Royale Burgers is a great place for happy hour on a hot day in Texas! Since they're all hot days in Texas, you can always enjoy one of their gourmet milkshakes. The Salted Caramel is a crowd pleaser, as is the classic banana, but the masses turn up for the Magnificent S'mores Shake. It's made with chocolate ice cream, fudge, and toasted homemade jet puff, with a graham cracker rim. Also, don't forget, everything is bigger in Texas.
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With a menu as big as Arches National Park, customers are bound to find something they like at Moab Diner as well as a milkshake to cool them off from the desert heat. Choose from any classic flavor of ice cream or from originals like Superman, Bunny Tracks, or Chocolate Caramel Cashew to make your milkshake and top it with caramel, fudge, or fruit syrup. You can't go wrong when you've got quality ingredients to make your own!
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Grazer's goes beyond the burger with a Chocolate Hazelnut shake, which is unique to our list in that "why hasn't anyone else done this?" kind of way. The Salted Caramel and Oreo shakes are amazing as well and the atmosphere is modern with an organic feel. The shakes are served in nostalgic handled mason jars and the tin comes out with the shake so nothing goes to waste!
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If Virginia is for lovers, then you'll adore the Heath Almond milkshake at Ted's Bulletin! Other noteable delights include a Peanut Butter, Chocolate, and Banana shake as well as a PB & J or Peppermint milkshake. If you're feeling extra saucy, then throw some in a shake and try one of the creative adult offerings like the Irish Caramel Creme or Banana's Foster.
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Just like Seattle, Lunchbox Laboratory is a creative and eccentric establishment ready to create a food experiement just for you. The throw-back decor will transport you back to the golden era of the 50's and 60's as will the first sip of a classic vanilla, strawberry, or chocolate milkshake.
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Voted "Best Burger" by Morgantown, Tailpipes is a place where families and friends hang out, listen to music, and eat great food. It's also where they can get one of West Virginia's best milkshake. This diner offers many signature shakes like creamsicle, maple bacon, red velvet, and funfetti. They will also crush Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, or Crunch Berries cereal up and mix it in with your milkshake.
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This is Wisconsin, people. They're not trying to help you lose weight, they're trying to bring you the tastiest ice cream and milkshakes in the state! If you want nutrition, eat carrots. Create your own milkshake from over 90 flavors of ice cream, italian ice, or even caffeinated ice cream! Butter Pecan, Red Velvet, and Moose Tracks are crowd favorites, but the new big cheese is Taffy Apple with Caramel drizzle.
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Get ready to rock around the clock with burgers and shakes that taste like they did in 1955. You might even get to dump a milkshake all over Bif and invent the skateboard while fleeing! But that was then, this is now, so back to the future when you visit this fun little diner, make sure to order a classic Vanilla malt shake at the soda bar. Don't forget to piick up a strawberry shake while your there for your best girl.
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