I’m surprised how many people like Malts.
I haven’t tried one since childhood. I liked them. I don’t remember why I quit ordering Malts. I’ll order one next time.
I usually make most of my milkshakes at home. With whatever ice cream is handy. The few others I get from a downtown ice cream shop and it’s usually butterscotch. Unless it’s the holiday season and the “Peppermint Phlash” flavor is available.
I miss the milkshakes from Peter’s Drive-In. I always loved a chocolate banana combo. I don’t see it on the menu now, but I am pretty sure you used to be able to get any milkshake as a malt.
Chili’s used to have a really good chocolate shake back in the late 80s/early 90s. But I haven’t ordered one since about 1995, and I don’t know if they make those anymore.
When I get a shake, which is pretty rare, Braum’s is my go-to place. Usually just straight chocolate or vanilla.
I go to a local gelateria for ice cream though.
Glad to see all of the malt fans. I don’t know why they’re becoming rather a rarity nowadays. If I go to a shake place and ask if they do malts, three out of four times I’ll be met with a blank stare from the youngster manning the counter.
And the best malt I ever had was at The Counter (a fading gourmet burger chain). It was a Nutella malt, made with quality vanilla ice cream, Nutella, and lots of malt powder. Yum.
I don’t like shakes made with soft serve or mass market ice cream, because that stuff fights with my stomach.
There is a vintage malt shop in Phoenix called McAlpines. They have a soda bar. Very good stuff.
They have limited hours. But BIG malts.
Mike’s Drive-In in Oregon City.31 flavors of shakes, best I’ve had.
I am also high up on the malted bandwagon, but I’d say not 1 out of 10 places that serve shakes have them/know what the heck they are. I’m generally limited to making it at home if I want a malt.
And chocolate is #1 on the list.
Chocolate Shakes deserve to be made with chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce, not vanilla.
Any place that uses a real milkshake mixer and uses real ice cream with natural flavors, milk, and malted milk powder. For a chocolate shake adding any type of real chocolate flavoring is OK I guess but I prefer the flavor to come from the ice cream.
Seriously? Am I the first to say this? Okay, my favorite place to buy shakes is Starbucks.
They’re everywhere, and a shake with caffeine is perfect on long roadtrips.
Otherwise, I too am part of the malt faction, and enjoy a good vanilla malt (not chocolate, because chocolate ice cream ranges from divine to chalk, and far too many places skimp on shake ice cream quality). Sadly, the places I used to go in town for such things no longer carry them due to low demand.
Mostly though, my favorite shakes is my homemade bananas foster shake. Sautee bananas in a skillet with butter, good cassia, vanilla and brown sugar, plus a shot of Cruzan Black Strap Rum (the darker, more molasses tasting Rum the better) - chill, then freeze. Later, mix a medium decent ice cream (Edys, Bryers, etc) with the frozen bananas, another shot of the Rum, and place in blender with just enough whole milk to let it all come together.
Serve in chilled mug/tumbler, and relax on a hot summer evening.
Best in Switzerland is 5 Guys, vanilla malt. But that’s not local, so if I want a milkshake, it’ll be from McDonald’s or Burger King. Or I have to make my own. Supposedly KFC has milkshakes, but I haven’t tried it yet.
When I was little, my favorite was a vanilla malt from Big Boy.
DQ wins simply because I can get a Black Forest shake. It’s off menu and involves a chocolate shake with their cherry topping mixed in and plenty of whipped cream on top.
If / when they’re available, I’m still a sucker for the Shamrock shakes at McDonald’s. Next would be DQ.
Did anyone else go to a high school where they sold shakes at lunch? Mine served the best shakes I’ve had, before or since. Seems like if a HS can produce a good one, actual restaurants should be able to outdo them by a mile, yet that isn’t the case.
Malts. Nope. Taste like sour milk, to me.
Don’t listen to me. I have little experience.
I used to get a sip of someone’s(who I’m trying not to name, so much) chocolate malt, occasionally.
There is only one shake deserving of the name, and that is a pure vanilla milkshake.
I’ve made some at home, using of course Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, but it’s been decades since I’ve got one at a takeout place. It was probably Diary Queen. When I was a kid there was a Dairy Queen at the end of our block, and to me it was a sacred Mecca!
Coincidentally, I just saw a news article today where Shake Shack was opening up in Canada. Never been there, but although their burger offerings have been discussed here, I presume with a name like that they do make shakes. But I still think that my vanilla Haagen-Dazs shakes likely can’t be beat.
As for any milkshake that is contaminated by anything not vanilla, I shudder at the bizarre tastes that some people have! 
Yes, there are pieces of peach in their peach shake, just the right size to plug the straw. Worth it, though.
That’s the only place I’ve had a shake within the past few years, probably because it’s in the name so it’s the one place I think “Maybe I should get a shake here.”
Portillo’s cake shake. Which is what it sounds like.
Take a shake (I go vanilla), blend a large slice of cake into it (I go lemon). I can shut down the sensible voice in my head to go for it maybe twice a year.
Cook Out, blueberry cheesecake.
Arby’s still has their Jamocha shakes, along with vanilla and chocolate on their regular menu. I alternate between Jamocha and chocolate, but they also currently have an orange-creme shake. In the spring they have a mint shake that is much better than McDonald’s shamrock shake. Plus the regular size is only a dollar more than a regular soda.