Yoforia

Brief description: Low calorie. Sweet. Filling (get a medium!). Good quality. Cute atmosphere. Overpriced for portion size.
People call me the «yogurt queen.» I’ve been eating frozen yogurt as my lunch for years. That said, I’ve truly tried it all and would say that the quality of the Yoforia yogurt is pretty decent. My absolute favorite is Forty Carrots at the Bloomingdales in Manhattan NY and could therefore never rate any other frozen yogurt on par (which is why Yoforia gets 4 stars and not 5).
I was first introduced to yoforia at the VA Highlands location since it’s close to Emory. They started out with only three flavors and have since expanded to six (probably to keep up with the competition). I’ve now been going everyday since it’s right across the street from my office in Alpharetta where I’m interning for the summer.
I’m getting somewhat sick of the six flavors which currently include: original, pomegranate, pineapple, cookies n cream, forrero rocher (my favorite), and vanilla bean (a little too sweet). I like how they have portion control, so you know exactly how many calories you’re getting. It’s 20 calories/​oz and a small is 6 oz, a medium is 10oz. Not bad! Toppings are average. I love honey in my yogurt, which they only have at the VA Highlands location but the assortment of options is pretty good. I love the dark chocolate chips, strawberries, and bananas.
The atmosphere is very cute and the teens who work there are really sweet. Tell them to stamp your receipt and the 10^th yogurt is free (hiddden secret). Also, if you’re a student, you get 10% off.
Overall, great find! Enjoy :)

I have and will always love Yoforia. The classic original and pomegranate swirl with fruit is a great, somewhat healthy treat for hot summer days. Or really any day.
Imagine my surprise when I wandered in last week to discover two new flavors which completely blew me away. Vanilla (may not seem like a big deal but I really LOVE vanilla) AND Ferrero Rocher. That’s right, the flavor of those little balls of truffle goodness. It is spot on! Ever since discovering these two flavors I have completely abandoned my attempts at keeping it on the healthy side and now opt for one of those flavors with dark chocolate and graham crackers. It is to die for!
Thank you Yoforia for ruining my summer diet!

I have to say that Yoforia has the best yogurt I’ve tasted so far… It’s tangy, tart, natural tasting, and well-​flavored.
Seriously, what is frozen yogurt supposed to be? Frozen — YOGURT! The second largest incredient is their product is yogurt. At the other competitor shops I’ve visted, I cannot really taste much yogurt.
I would say that Yogur-​Le-​Hee and Juicy Green are creamier. YLH and JG have slightly more lively atmospheres, but if you’re going for the taste, Yoforia on Windward is where it’s at.
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Got a large recently to go and the portion size was much smaller. What happened?):

Frozen yogurt… was really big at college in the dorm dining halls and has somehow now become a multimillion dollar business? Yoforia doesn’t distinguish itself to me as any different or better than all the other random places. It is however a nice low-​cal treat SUPER close to the office. And in this hot GA summer… I may be coming back!

I’ve been to other Yoforia locations but the yogurt that I tried today and I’m thinking they changed their recipe up because the frozen yogurt was very creamy. It wasn’t the usual froyo I’ve tried at Yoforia. It’s just like Red Mango in New York. I like my froyo creamy.
I tried their mango and pineapple froyo and it is amazing. Mango was tangy and the pineapple was delicious.
Only problem I have is that on their sign it says Italian Frozen yogurt, which is inaccurate. We all know it is from Korea.

This is it. The real deal. The best stuff I’ve had since Yogurtland in Fullerton, CA in ’07. It’s the perfect balance of tangy and sweet, the right consistency, with fresh toppings and huge servings. This yogurt is worth every cent (and we all know that with froyo, you pay a pretty penny for milk, sugar, and bacteria in a cup).
They had original plus 3 monthly flavors. My parents loved it (finally, after YEARS, I get to prove to them that my addiction isn’t crazy). My sister loved it. Everyone who tried it was totally into this stuff.
Also, I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but after trying places in SoCal, Chicago, D.C., Louisville, and Atlanta, this is the only place since SoCal to have sweet condensed milk. That stuff was totally a standard at the Korean owned shops in Orange County and L.A. and I’ve been baffled by their absence ever since.
So, I’m one step further in my quest to try every local yogurt shop and regional chain in this country. Onward, steed!

Why the 5? This is the closest to Pinkberry you can get! in Atlanta! I am a very devoted Pinkberry fan, having lived 3 years in LA and sorely missing my fix of Pinkberry for the last nearly 2 years now! Juicy Green was not really cutting it mainly because it was too far away. They serve plain frozen yogurt at the giant Asian supermarket in the bakery upstairs (Super H) and I must admit I love going to that market — it’s like a field trip. BUT, Yoforia tastes very much like Pinkberry and the décor has the same Asian/​Ikea cool vibe.
We went yesterday, me and my honey, and we were going to try the Lunch Box Korean BBQ which is located in the same shop with Yoforia but we went for dinner and hello! it’s called the Lunch Box — they only serve lunch. So we had our plain froyo and went next door to the greek place which is pretty good as well. :-)
Right now Yoforia has a promotion going, not sure how long it will last, where you buy one, get one free if you show them your Costco card.
P. S. After posting the above review, I received the following note from the owner:
Dear Sandra S,
Thank you for a wonderful review. Sorry about no Lunchbox during dinner time, we serve Lunchbox Mon~Fri 11am~3pm. «Buy 1 get 1 free with Costco Card» will run through May 31, 09.
Have a fantastic day.
Jun Kim

Ok… so they are open under a different name but now serve yogurt as well…

I too, liked this place, however, stopped by after work today to find them closed and being renovated to be called «Lunch Box.» Hopefully the store in Perimeter Mall didn’t suffer the same fate.

Walk into Yoforia, after an exhausting search for gasoline (whole other story), and the first thing that struck me was the décor. It looked like someone traveled back to 1972 San Francisco and grabbed a gallery and plunked it into Alpharetta, GA in the year 2008. Very retro cool; so many bright colors you may be squinting.
The place is dead, it’s after 8:30 on a week night, in the ‘burbs. Not really surprised. I look at the menu and this bubbly young woman comes out from the back and greets me. I get the blueberry frozen yogurt, with blueberries, chocolate and walnuts. YUM! I saw they had 4 main frozen yogurt flavors, reason enough for return visits.
Very impressed with the taste and the amount of items you can add to your frozen treat. I give them a big UP for having Captain Crunch as an add-​on. You just can’t walk out of there and not feel happy.

I’ve been excited to see just what all the hullabaloo (totally underused word, btw) is about regarding the nouveau fro-​yo places, so when we spotted this one wedged in between other fairly generic food places in the Windward strip mall, it seemed like a good idea, which, thankfully bore out well– especially the pomegranate flavor with mango. I also tried the chocolate, but it didn’t really have the tang and fresh taste of the regular or pomegranate flavor.
I would definitely go back, but wish they had a smaller size– I literally had no self-​control and scarfed down the whole thing without pausing to share. For shame.

I’m not sure that this place deserves the 4 stars, but out of all the Pinkberry copies in Atlanta, it has the best décor and is the cleanest. (at least in my experience) I’m also a very visual person, so the chic décor made the experience pleasant and exciting. (It was the first of the new wave of yogurt joints I had visited)
As for the actual yogurt, their all pretty much the same, though admittedly Pinkberry is better than them all. (yeah, I didn’t want to believe it either) Stay away from the green tea flavor, it just isn’t as good. The toppings are fresh and they have the mochis/​rice cakes which is nice.

I’ve read all the great reviews of the Yoforia location at perimeter mall. They opened a Windward store a little while back. It is kinda buried in the double decker strip mall, in a location you could easily miss.
Frozen yogurt seems so 1980’s. I don’t really get all the excitement. This place is basically TCBY with organic ingredients. The selection is just sparse. Maybe I’m not hip with the ITP crowd or something. But pomegranate-​flavored yogurt with mochi and granola doesn’t get my motor running. Even my three year old daughter didn’t like this stuff! I need pieces of snickers bars mashed into a triple scoop of chocolate ice cream! Pour some hot fudge on it with chocolate chips and sprinkles. Ah now you’re talkin’!
Look folks… life is too short not to enjoy decent ice cream. So ditch the ‘green tea frozen yogurt’ and head to your nearest cold marble slab mix-​in o-​rama and dig in!
And what the hell is a mochi?
Update 9 May 2008:
Well after my review, I was contacted by someone with this store. She offered a gift certificate to give them another try. She seemed pretty sincere. I decided to give it another go, but did not take her up on the freebie.
They have since added a dark chocolate flavor which is a little more appealing to me. But nevertheless, this is frozen yogurt and I’m just not a big fan. I also tried the mochi topping, which seems like a combination of marshmallow and gummy bears. Interesting.
So my initial review was probably a bit harsh. I’ll bump them to 3 stars from one. They do yogurt pretty well. I think they need a little more variety to their flavors and more options to how I can get it.
I’ll also add that this location is getting more popular. On a Friday night there was a bit of a line. And to borrow a line from the movie Top Gun… this is a target-​rich environment. Take heed, single men!