Simply Shakes

Just… yuck.
I hadn’t noticed this place until my boyfriend dragged me to it all excited about this «awesome milkshake bar» and how he had to have one and I should get one too.
While I’m sure 7 year olds everywhere will be squealing in delight at the possibility of a Skittles milkshake, I can’t imagine anything more disgusting.
Okay, so most of the milkshake ideas here are unusual, and some of them aren’t horrendously disgusting ideas, but most of them are just wrong.
Also, and correct me if I’m wrong, but what’s so amazingly clever about blending ice cream and a chocolate bar? Here’s my suggestion: Buy some cheap vanilla ice cream, you probably already have milk, and blend whatever chocolate bars take your fancy into a milkshake at home. That way, you wont be wasting so much money on what will probably be gross, and you’ll more than likely come up with your own, more awesome creation.

HOW DID NO ONE ELSE THINK OF THIS BEFORE SIMPLY SHAKES STARTED DOING IT?
That kind of came out of nowhere, so let me just kick off with a little explanation of how they do things here.
Take one half pint of semi skimmed milk.
Take four large sco– No! Very large scoo– NO! HUGE scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Take your favourite chocolate bar, or bag of sweets, or fruit.
Put it all in a high powered blender.
Press «On».
Serve.
That’s it. The simplicity is astounding. No milkshake mix. Just ice cream, milk and chocolate, crammed in a blender and served straight to your thankful arteries.
When I first tried it, I was dubious. I asked for a Snickers, fully expecting a clumpy, vanilla milkshake with chucks of peanut that kept getting lodged in my straw. No. Instead I got a milkshake, blended to perfection, that actually tasted like Snickers. I’ve been three times this week.

Do you like milkshakes? You do? Well would you a like a milkshake bar that can offer any type of milkshake, and I mean ANY type? Well at Simply Shakes that is no problem at all. This colourful, vibrant and eccentric little milkshake bar can give you the sugar rush that you need when you have a down day!
Located in Queens Arcade on the ground floor tucked away in the corner this place holds all the sweet flavours that a sweet craving ten year old child can only dream of. I’m twenty-​one and I still get excited when I visit there for my sugar rush. I personally go for the wonderful skittles milkshake. You may think that sounds a little bizarre but trust me; you must try it!
What I like so much about this milkshake bar is that it will blend anything and mix any combination of flavours you desire. You want a jelly tots milkshake mixed with a bounty? Well they will blend it for you. Do you want an apple pie milkshake? Yes, you read correct: Apple pie! You name it and they will do it. As if every flavour wasn’t enough they do offer an option of Soya milk, organic milk, and skimmed milk if you fancy a little less fat, but with a shake like this what is the point? Live a little!
I should mention the price of the shakes. They are certainly not cheap. The price of sugar must have gone up these days. I paid £2.50 for a small shake, granted it gave me the sugar rush I wanted but I still thought it was a little pricey.
Overall this milkshake bar offers all the sweet flavours of any candy bar into one tasty shake. They offer a loyalty card if you want to keep coming back and packing your body full of sugar and you can even take your own mix of sweets and turn it into sugary goodness. Now go get a rush!

There is so much sugar in such a concentrated area in Simply Shakes that you may end up running around the remainder of your shopping before collapsing in a heap somewhere in Queen’s Arcade. The choices on offer include blended Milky Ways and Mars Bars, or you could try Skittles and Gummi Bears if you really need an injection of something that is 102% sugar into your system.
The choice is entirely yours, they have set prices for certain favourites, or you can create your own sweet monster like a Willy Wonka Frankenstein with whatever takes your fancy at the time.
It’s easy to miss this place, you need to be in the lower level of Queen’s arcade and just at the bottom of the escalators that are so small they needn’t even be there that lead up towards a Gregg’s you’ll see Simply Shakes hiding on the left.

For a calorie-​laden sugar hit, Simply Shakes can give you just the fix.
You could easily walk past this place and not notice it, because it’s squeezed in under the stairs in Queens Arcade — but if you look out for it you’ll spot the bright sign and a couple of tables with stools to perch on if they’re not already taken.
From traditional milkshakes and fruit smoothies to those mega sweet and super-​sickly shakes packed with blended chocolate bars and sweets, they pretty much do it all when it comes to shake-​type-​drinks.
Because they pack inexpensive ingredients such as Dime bars and packets of Skittles, the resulting shakes are also expensive — but you probably won’t want to eat for some time afterwards! Fortunately they also offer some fruit pots and other healthy options so you don’t always have to go for the cardiac inducing chocolate bar shakes.

I disappointed for Simply Shakes that it’s in this position, because it would defiantly benefit from having more space to sit. At the moment it just has a couple of high stools that someone’s usually already nabbed.
They do make the most fantastic shakes, and anything edible you can think of they’ll probably be able to put into a shake. Think banoffe pie, skittles, crème eggs. My favorite is strawberry and cream. They also do smoothies and healthy fruit drinks and sell all sorts of sweets which is great for when you need a sugar fix when your shopping!

Tucked away under the stairs that connect Queens Arcade with St David’s Arcade, it’s all too easy to miss this place.
This is a small booth which serves all manner of milkshakes and smoothies. They have all of the traditional flavours that you could possible want, as well as countless other more exotic flavours. You can have a peppermint cream shake. A Cadbury’s cream egg shake. A marzipan shake. A skittles shake. A Battenberg cake shake…
Basically, they have a full selection of sweets and chocolate that you can choose from and you stand there watching in awe as they throw whole chocolate bars in a blender.
The shakes are slightly expensive, but definitely worth it as a treat. Not recommended for diabetics.

This place is positioned under the stairs in the arcade and I think that quite a few people have walked past and not even noticed it.
The really unique thing about this place is the wide range of shakes available — lots of traditional shakes along with some unusual ones. I think the last one I had was flavoured with some sweets — its was super sweet and amazingly addictive.
The prices are a little expensive, which means that it has be a occassional treat for me. They have recently started to do fruit pots which are great for a healthy snack at lunch.
There are a couple of bar stools so that you can sit down and enjoy your shake. There always seems to be space to sit down if you want to. Its also great to watch your own shake being made before your very eyes — and nice for mums to know exactly what is going into the drink for the little ones.

Tucked away under the stairs in St. David’s this small milkshake bar is truly scrumptious! What makes this bar so different is that not only do they do regular strawberry and chocolate milkshakes they will mix and chocolates you want together into a blend of milky heaven! My favourite has to be the Cadburys crème egg and fudge chocolate, truly orgasmic! Also they blend in any sort of sweets you fancy, from starbursts to skittles even jelly beans they will do anything! Unfortunately I can’t afford one of these heavenly shakes every time I pass by as a decent medium sized shake comes to around £4! This bar is full of little treats, chocolate fountains, fruit smoothies and a gob smacking selection of different chocolates. Staff are really friendly and usually recommend what chocolates go nicely together, basically until you have visited Simply Shakes, you have not lived.