Dates grow abundantly in the Valley, but for most of us, date shakes are synonymous with road trips to San Diego. We stop at Date Land along Interstate 8 to gas up, use a clean gas station bathroom and consume sweet and chewy dates in the only way some of us know how -- through a straw.
Unfortunately Date Land is beyond our daily reach. But there are two places in town that spin up their own versions even better than the original.
