Yes, Boloco is a burrito place, but I'm here to talk about milk shakes. If you care to read about the burritos, you can read my review of the lackluster burritos I had at a catered event.
Boloco's menu is burritos, bowls, and salads. Yes. But if you read further, you'll find smoothies and shakes, all made with fresh ingredients. Totally random really, an odd match, but, I wanted to try them.
Boloco's menu is burritos, bowls, and salads. Yes. But if you read further, you'll find smoothies and shakes, all made with fresh ingredients. Totally random really, an odd match, but, I wanted to try them.
Shakes are available in only 4 varieties: 3 with skim milk and non-fat frozen yogurt as the base, the final one really is a smoothie not a shake, and I don't know why they list it otherwise, as it has no frozen yogurt, and is soy milk and fruit based. So yes, the "shakes" are healthy shakes, froyo and skim milk as the foundation doesn't scream decadence. The smoothies are built around fruits, fruit juices, vegetables, and raspberry sorbet.
None actually sounded like a flavor I wanted. Because, well, healthy slant, not things like mini chocolate chip, although they do have a nutella version.
So, I modified the most decadent sounding one I could find, in an attempt to make a "real" shake. The result wasn't great, but I'd still return sometime to try a new attempt, as the quality was high.
"All-natural creamy peanut butter, banana, skim milk, non-fat frozen yogurt."
It was a hot night, still 90 degrees at 9pm (!), and I wanted ice cream. I went straight to one ice cream shop, but ... they had their freezers fail earlier that day in the extreme heat. So I fell back on froyo. I went to JP Licks, my old standby. And ... their soft machine had run out. They had hard ice cream and yogurt of course, but, I really like their soft serve, not their hard serve!
So I decided a shake was in order instead, and ventured to Boloco next door, as I have a friend who raves about their shakes. The options were nutella, chocolate, vanilla, or the "jimmy carter", with peanut butter and banana.
I opted for the later, but modified it, subbing strawberry, which I knew they had for the fruity smoothies, in place of the banana. I wasn't in the mood for banana, having had Magnolia Bakery banana pudding every day for 3 days prior (review coming soon!), and the idea of a PB&J in shake form sounded appealing. It was no problem to make this change.
I ordered the mini size, not listed on the menu in the store, but listed online, the size my friend said is plenty, and that too was no problem to do.
The shake was made to order, all fresh ingredients, and took a while, appropriately.
It was ... fine? But I really I wished I had left the strawberry out entirely, and just did a peanut butter shake. The peanut butter flavor was nice, it was well made, nicely mixed, creamy. But I wasn't into the fruity nature, certainly more berry forward than peanut butter, resulting in something that tasted a bit too much like a smoothie for me.
The mini size was $4.50, and I agree, is all you need. The price seems high for such a small, unremarkable, item. I think simple vanilla would be better, or, really, I just need to return when I'm in the mood for something fruity.
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| Jimmy Carter Shake (Sub Strawberry for Banana). Mini. $4.50. |
It was a hot night, still 90 degrees at 9pm (!), and I wanted ice cream. I went straight to one ice cream shop, but ... they had their freezers fail earlier that day in the extreme heat. So I fell back on froyo. I went to JP Licks, my old standby. And ... their soft machine had run out. They had hard ice cream and yogurt of course, but, I really like their soft serve, not their hard serve!
So I decided a shake was in order instead, and ventured to Boloco next door, as I have a friend who raves about their shakes. The options were nutella, chocolate, vanilla, or the "jimmy carter", with peanut butter and banana.
I opted for the later, but modified it, subbing strawberry, which I knew they had for the fruity smoothies, in place of the banana. I wasn't in the mood for banana, having had Magnolia Bakery banana pudding every day for 3 days prior (review coming soon!), and the idea of a PB&J in shake form sounded appealing. It was no problem to make this change.
I ordered the mini size, not listed on the menu in the store, but listed online, the size my friend said is plenty, and that too was no problem to do.
The shake was made to order, all fresh ingredients, and took a while, appropriately.
It was ... fine? But I really I wished I had left the strawberry out entirely, and just did a peanut butter shake. The peanut butter flavor was nice, it was well made, nicely mixed, creamy. But I wasn't into the fruity nature, certainly more berry forward than peanut butter, resulting in something that tasted a bit too much like a smoothie for me.
The mini size was $4.50, and I agree, is all you need. The price seems high for such a small, unremarkable, item. I think simple vanilla would be better, or, really, I just need to return when I'm in the mood for something fruity.
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