Coffee Milkshake 1: Potbelly Sandwich Shop
Potbelly Sandwich Shop is one of my favourite places to grab a sandwich when I'm in the DC area; good food, fresh, toasty warm, lots of flavour. One of the few places that puts a noticeable amount of hot pepper on the sandwich when hot pepper is what you ask for. Good chili too. But I had never had one of their much-marketed shakes, so no better time than now to rectify that.
Shake Summary
Very good shake, but unfortunately not a very good coffee shake. Like everything else Potbelly's serves their shake is well made and is made with good ingredients. Hand dipped and hand blended which results in the slightly random mix that the true shake lover expects. But their coffee ice-cream (I'll try to find out what kind they use later today) is weak, as if it were made with coffee loaded up with cream and sugar. This results in a darn good vanilla shake with just a hint of coffee flavour - tasty, but not the taste I am looking for.
16 ounces for $2.69.
Still hunting.
PS. Of course it is possible to make a great coffee shake with weak coffee ice cream, or even with vanilla ice cream, but you have to add COFFEE to it! Strong coffee. And a bit of chocolate syrup.
Very good shake, but unfortunately not a very good coffee shake. Like everything else Potbelly's serves their shake is well made and is made with good ingredients. Hand dipped and hand blended which results in the slightly random mix that the true shake lover expects. But their coffee ice-cream (I'll try to find out what kind they use later today) is weak, as if it were made with coffee loaded up with cream and sugar. This results in a darn good vanilla shake with just a hint of coffee flavour - tasty, but not the taste I am looking for.
16 ounces for $2.69.
Still hunting.
PS. Of course it is possible to make a great coffee shake with weak coffee ice cream, or even with vanilla ice cream, but you have to add COFFEE to it! Strong coffee. And a bit of chocolate syrup.
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