Remove ImagesTaste Yogurt Bar
September 30, 2010
Make sure you also stop by Taste Yogurt Bar, which has its grand opening this Saturday. They've actually been serving for a week or so, and I think they'll succeed.
Since you pay by weight and dispense the frozen yogurt yourself, there's no waiting for scoops to be dipped. First, you can use tiny cups to sample each flavor. The trouble is that the dispenser nozzles are like firehoses. Nothing happens, and then suddenly you've got too much yogurt to fit in the tiny tasting cup and it's all over your fingers.
Not that it's anything but a pleasure to lick them off, because the flavors are very, very good. They change every couple of days, though I imagine (or at least I hope!) that they always have their excellent vanilla and rich deep chocolate.
Once you've decided on your flavors, you grab a bigger cup and pump in as much of each flavor as you want. Then you go to the toppings bar and start putting on whatever stuff you want (though the yogurt is good enough to eat naked). (That is, the yogurt would be naked.)
Toppings include tiny chocolate caramel cups like mini-Rolos that I'd like to be able to find by themselves. They also have superb mini-non-pareils. While M&Ms on ice cream or frozen yogurt freeze too solid to enjoy eating, the caramel cups and non-pareils remain perfectly chewable.
But there's a large variety of other toppings – and, since you put them on yourself, you aren't waiting for a handful of employees to serve all the people ahead of you.
The only logjam is at the point of payment, but since they sell by weight, it's simple and quick. And there are lots of little tables, so your chances of finding a place to sit and enjoy the treat are pretty good.
Taste Yogurt Bar is at 2417-D Lawndale Drive. That puts it near Target and such restaurants as Positano, Steak and Shake, Panera – and at the other end of the same building as the new location of Southern Lights.
In fact, with Loco for Coco on the way between Southern Lights and Taste Yogurt Bar, that building is pretty much Mecca for me, with Positano as Medina across the way.