The 25 Best Milkshakes in America and Where to Try Them

This Santa Fe favorite is famous for its thick, creamy Adobe Mud Shakes, made with organic Taos Cow ice cream. Such exotic flavors as lavender and piñon caramel are available, but Mexican chocolate remains the go-to choice for many customers.

Named as one of the best milkshakes in America, the Charcoal Pit’s triple thick strawberry shake takes a traditional favorite and intensifies it into pure strawberry bliss.

Regular shakes and malts are available at this Gateway City mainstay, but the signature offerings are the concretes — versions so thick they won’t fall out of the cup if it’s turned upside down. The extravagant Dutchman Delight version combines chocolate, butterscotch, and pecans.

Reviewers love the key lime milkshake at this fruit stand and farm on the edge of the Everglades, but the fragrantly tropical passion fruit shake — one of the many varieties the place makes from its own farm-grown fruit — is unusual and particularly tasty. Like all the shakes, it’s served in a 100% biodegradable corn-based plastic cup.

In Lexington, says Spoon University, “no night out is complete without a classic Tolly milkshake.” Nutella is a popular shake flavoring all over the country, and Tolly Ho makes a particularly memorable version of the specialty.