Shake Shack is awesome for two reasons – it combines good old fashion junk food (like burgers, hot dogs) with my other love, milkshakes! Hilariously they even offer something for your four-legged best friend. If I’m honest “The Pooch-ini” (ShackBurger dog biscuits, peanut butter sauce and vanilla custard) sounded nice enough that even I wanted to order it!

Shake Shack is a chain restaurant that is slowly growing and there are currently five of them in New York. The first one opened in Madison Square Park but tonight, after a hard day’s shopping at the Jersey Shore Premium Outlets, we stopped in at the branch near Times Square. To say it was heaving would have been an understatement and our challenge was (1) understanding how to order a milkshake and (2) finding a seat! The burger was easy enough – they keep it pretty simple and the most complicated burger is one including lettuce, tomato, cheese and ShackSauce! For milkshakes you can go with something fairly standard or you can try a Concrete. What? Basically its three scoops of what the Shake Shack call frozen custard (soft serve shacked with premium ice cream) and mix-ins. Mix-ins/toppings include marshmallow sauce, choc covered pretzels, doughnuts, cookie dough etc. Diabetics watch out!

So our little tray doesn’t look the most appetising the way our Concretes are presented but it was pretty tasty. The Concretes were way sweet but I liked how they were a drink and dessert rolled into one. Hmmm …