{"id":411555,"date":"2026-08-20T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411555\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:56:08","slug":"fresh-monkee-now-blending-protein-shakes-in-downtown-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411555\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Monkee now blending protein shakes in downtown | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freshmonkee.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Monkee<\/a> is now open in downtown Austin, blending up high-fiber, low sugar protein shakes. The shake shop is located beneath The Shoal, an Austin apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out<\/p>\n<p>Fresh Monkee launched its soft opening on Aug. 17. The business is open 7 a.m.-5 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/freshmonkee_austin\/p\/DcC6-aEDfa7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the brand\u2019s social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the menu<\/p>\n<p>Shakes include the Banana Split, made with milk, vanilla protein, unsweetened coconut shreds, banana, pineapple, strawberries and topped with unsweetened coconut shreds. Fresh Monkee also has coffee-based drinks like the caramel coffee buzz, which features milk, a splash of cream, vanilla protein, coffee ice cubes, vanilla extract, Stevia and sugar free caramel drizzle.<\/p>\n<p>For a light bite, patrons can order the Monkee Balls, made with natural peanut butter, oat flour, chocolate whey protein, maple syrup, vanilla extract and rolled in semi-sweet chocolate chips and coconut oil.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory <\/p>\n<p>Judy Flynn founded Fresh Monkee in Connecticut in 2014. Flynn hoped to bring a new beverage to the market, one loaded with high-quality fiber, carbs, healthy fats and simple ingredients, <a href=\"https:\/\/freshmonkee.com\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the brand\u2019s website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh Monkee is now open in downtown Austin, blending up high-fiber, low sugar protein shakes. The shake shop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,993,47110,749,143672,19312,59613,143673],"class_list":["post-411555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-downtown","tag-fresh-monkee","tag-now-open","tag-protien-shake","tag-smoothies","tag-soft-opening","tag-the-shoal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}