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Yogurt Spoon
Yogurt Spoon is a new self-serve frozen yogurt joint at Yonge and Wellesley touting itself as the "most affordable, and best tasting." That's at least according to owner Jin, who opened the shop with business partner and friend Jay five weeks ago. "Go to other places," he dares me. "Check their prices. We're definitely lower. And our yogurt tastes better."
Yogurt Spoon's $0.45 per ounce does seem pretty good compared to the few other places I can draw off the top of my head (I think Menchie's in the Annex is a little more, for example). But I was going to hold the men to their promise about taste.
While not the most extensive variety, Yogurt Spoon offers a respectable 10 flavours of frozen yogurt, two of which are dairy-free (most are also fat-free). I mulled over by the self-serve dispensers, trying to decide between original, raspberry, peach, mango, pineapple, coconut, chocolate, cheesecake, pink grapefruit, and green apple. On Jin's recommendation, I went with the original, mixing in a little mango for good measure. As for toppings, I went with fresh strawberries and little pieces of mochi, a sort of Japanese rice cake that seemed to me more like mini marshmallows.
I'll admit my topping choices were sort of conservative, as Yogurt Spoon's spread of 20 to 30 items includes crushed Oreos, Skor bits, kiwi, gummy bears, fruit "bursts," and Captain Crunch cereal (but it scrapes the roof of your mouth!) to name a few. But I appreciated that most of the fruit looked freshly cut (except for the pineapple bits and a few others), and the strawberries in my cup certainly tasted perfectly ripe. The original flavour was quite creamy, very yogurt-y, while the mango was a little more reminiscent of sorbet. Overall it was quite tasty, though it melted sort of fast, which is never a good thing for a perpetually slow eater such as myself.
For all the times I've passed by, Yogurt Spoon always seems remarkably busy, despite the unfavourable weather earlier this month. "It's going really well," Jin says. "We're hoping to open more later this year."
Yogurt Spoon is open all year round, Sunday to Friday from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.
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It just seems to be tastier if I had to work to get it.
I like yogurt spoon for when I crave fruit flavoured yogurt
and I like menchies for richer cake flavoured yogurt (red velvet cake YUM!)
I HAVE heard of someone wandering into a Toronto coffee shop and taking a big swig of milk from the milk jug on the milk and sugar servery. Perhaps you should be "ew" -ing that instead.
But if you like fruit flavours, I tend to favour yogurt spoon a bit.
menchies also has fruit flavoured ones but they are consistantly rotating the flavours and so far everytime I'm at yogurt spoon there are always fruit flavours.
FroYo = F Y
"Fro? Yo!"
Staff greeted us as soon as we walked in and proceeded to show us how to operate the machines, et cetera. The yogurt was incredible as well. Very fresh and tasty. Will be returning for sure.
Miranda: I judged you too quickly. I, too, enjoy going to BK late at night while drunk. No guzzling from the tap yet though. Maybe in the near future?
Went as promised in my earlier comment and was very pleased. Yogurt was great, there were tons of toppings and the staff was awesome. It's really easy to spend more than you intend because the cups are one size only (I ended up spending about $7 because I filled it like the pig that I am) but I enjoyed every fucking bite. My SO complained that Yogen Fruz has more berries for toppings but some people, amirite?
I agree with mona - the service at Yogurt Spoon is always amazing!
They have ongoing deals like "check-in deals". I think a service provider called Dealio provided them the service. Anyways I love this place!
http://www.waytwogood.com
Italian sorbet made with 100% spring water with flavour of
"Green apple" or "Pink grapefruit"
"Steeles Avenue East, Markham"
hm... the reason is pretty clear.
One on markham, one on young street downtown.
The rent for the two stores are from two different worlds.
Beside, Yutopia don't have that many choices.
(LOVE MUCHI <3 )
Also, I can vouch for the grapefruit/green apple dairy-free combo!
I only eat the tart yogurt so its okay.. you just need to watch how much you put in your bowl because it can still get pricey!
Have you noticed that the Asian run frozen yogurt shops have much friendlier workers?? not to be racist
Will go again!
is available on web?