I absolutely love Steak N Shake. Â I lived in Indianapolis for a summer while I was in college and went to this place all the time. Â Then I went back to Idaho where there are no steak n shakes. Â I now live in Virginia and there are no steak n shakes here either. Â THis summer I went to Indianapolis for business and I went to steak n shake almost every day. Â On a couple days twice. Â
This is my favorite place to go for a burger and shake.
I ordered a vanilla shake with caramel and I'm not really sure who thought this was a good idea but the ratio of shake to caramel was pretty close to fifty fifty..... Â Have you ever sucked straight caramel through a straw before? Â Like two cups worth of it? Â It comes highly unrecommended. Â This was not a shake, it didn't cure my craving for a shake. Â Quite frankly, it was unsatisfying diabetes in a cup.
Review Source:This place rocks the late night food
So I am a Trucker and I am in Indy for a couple hours, waiting on my trailer to get loaded, and it's like 11pm on a Friday night I know the sidewalks can't all be rolled up in this town
so I ask one of the kids on the dock what is open that I can sit down and eat I don't want no damn fast food, IE: the Arches, Taco Bell I want some thing I can't get in Seattle
so he sends me to Steak N Shake !!! you folks have a winner here
I got the Wisconsin Buttery Steakburger n Fries I had them add Bacon to it, and it was wonderful didn't need to add anything to it, no mustard or even pepper I truly like this burger just the way it came out, and I like the french fries are like shoe string fries
my coworker had a BLT and said it was very tasty also
very clean place and the people working here were really nice
Truth in branding.
Firstly, the hamburgers are steakburgers. Â Five stars for that distinction, alone. Â And the double-steak cheeseburger is reason enough for God's creation of cattle (Seeger luggage, and Bentley interiors notwithstanding). Â Certainly one of the best of "chain" hamburger offerings.
Secondly, the shakes are superb: always perfect viscosity with good body and delicate, but vibrant, flavor (such descriptives aren't the sole province of vineologists) and always finished off with a celebratory swirl of real whipped cream and a cherry.
Of course, now there are a slew of "johhny come latelys" like Carls and others who are touting their "real ice cream", "hand scooped" shakes, et al. Â Nice try, but one has to honor the original and best.
While Steak and Shakes are expanding their population through the Midwest and South (literally and figuratively!), the remainder of the Country will have to do with 2nd rate shakes (and hamburgers).