Shake Shack Opens in New Haven
Amy Kundrat
Shake Shack has officially arrived in New Haven. The New York hamburger chain opened its first college outpost, and second in the Connecticut, in the state's Elm City on the evening of September 12 to family and friends. It will offially open to the public on September 13, 2012.
Shake Shack's founder Danny Meyer may have a not-so-hidden agenda for this first foray to college campuses – his daughter is a freshman at Yale. Facing the New Haven green on Chapel Street, Shake Shack is conveniently near the old campus of Yale University. Its location is an auspicious one – it is about a quarter of a mile away from Louis Lunch, often touted as the birthplace of the hamburger.
The menu is similar to its sister restaurants, with a few signature Concretes including the Skull & Cones Concrete (a play on the University's Skull & Bones secret society), a combination of chocolate and vanilla with shattered sugar cones, and peanut butter sauce and chocolate truffle cookie dough, and the Boola Boola Blue Concrete (a reference to Yale's fight song), a combination vanilla custard with blueberry jam and a lemon pie.
Shake Shack New Haven is now open at 986 Chapel Street in New Haven and will be open daily from 11 am to 11 pm.
Reader Comments (4)
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This place is sooooo unhealthy people!!! There is not one thing on the menu that I would feel good about putting in my mouth let alone my children's mouths! Think, M&Ds out there. How do you want to educate your children about making healthy choices. We have to start somewhere. This place is pure gluttony. You can't say moderation. You'd have to split the cheeseburger four ways.
To eat there every night would be gluttony...once every couple of months isn't going to kill anyone.
It is unhealthy, but fine for a treat now and then. It will do well there and it's great for the city and the green area. That block is also getting a Chipotle soon.