From banana popcorn to brownie blast shakes, this new joint is every dessertarian's paradise

 Shakos in Anna Nagar serves up a combination of shakes and waffles enough to satiate your sweet tooth cravings 
Shakos in Anna Nagar
Shakos in Anna Nagar

If you're part of the hipster brigade who loves to drink their milkshake out of a bottle and — here’s the best part — take the bottle back home, chances are you’ve probably checked out a couple of places in the city that offer them. While we silently doff our hats to Keventers for popularising the concept in Chennai, we chanced upon Shakos in Anna Nagar East, which sells its milkshakes by the bottle, except, it’s more pocket-friendly. And there’s more! Rather than just being a kiosk that serves shakes, they also offer some innovative waffle sandwiches and icewiches (iced waffle sandwiches) if you’re in the mood for something richer. Started by three IT professionals — Ram Dinesh (24), Kishore Thennarasu 24) and Tamil Selvan (24), Shakos in Anna Nagar East opened their shutters two weeks back. 

“Our shakes won’t burn a hole in your pocket and the quantity is just about right for one person,” says Ram who also owns Fryos, a joint that serves up different type of fries, at OMR Food Street in Navallur. “We have a variety of flavours like the Brownie Blast, Salted Caramel, Paan Gulkhand shake and banana popcorn. We don’t use any preservatives and even the popcorn is freshly made with banana flavour.” Also on the list is bubblegum strawberry and rocking red-velvet shakes.

Brownie Blast
Brownie Blast

Our personal favourite is the latter which is what you get if you take a whole red velvet cake and blend it with ice cream. It’s delicious, thick and we bet you can’t stop at just one sip. Brownie Blast came next. This thick shake with chunky bits of brownies is an absolute dream for chocolate lovers. The kiosk soon fills up with the mouth-watering aroma of freshly made waffles.

From strawberry to mango waffles, Shakos is a dessertarian’s paradise. We choose a strawberry waffle and it is every bit as decadent as it looks. Sandwiched between two triangle-shaped waffles is freshly made strawberry jam, drizzled with white chocolate ganache. It also has slices of strawberries laden on top. The best part about this is that it’s not saccharine sweet, but just about right with the acidity from the fruit and the sweetness from the topping creating the perfect balance.

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We now switch to a Choco Strawberry icewich which is a sugar overload of waffles, ice cream, more jam and copious amounts of ganache. Be warned — this can get pretty messy. Ram says that he doesn’t keep any forks and spoons around. “Just use your hands! The idea is to get messy!”   

Waffles priced at `99. Shakes priced from `149 onwards.

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