Charming spot, friendly staff.  We wanted to love it.  Unfortunately, the shakes and whoopie pies tasted like the fake stuff (flavored syrups and extracts) and not the real stuff (bananas, peanut butter, banana ice cream and peanut butter ice cream etc).\n\nOur peanut butter/banana shake had chunks of banana, but all I could taste was the alcoholic flavor of Torani syrups, which line the back wall of the soda fountain.  When the server was making it I saw her put two large pours in the cup (presumably an ounce of each flavor).  The result was a very loose shake with that fake banana flavor like a Now And Later, and no peanut butter flavor.  I expected much more from a $7 shake (flashing on Pulp Fiction's freakout over a $5 shake).  For the best shakes in the 'hood, go to The Stand.\n\nThe whoopie pies were no better.  The highly recommended banana's foster pie tasted like the fake syrup again.  I tasted a mouthful of sugar and no cakiness.  At 3 for $5, I didn't even take a second bite.