Phileo Yogurt

Back in my NYU days, this used to be Yogurtland and that was one of my favorite places in the whole wide world. I literally took every person I knew here like I was Christopher Columbus discovering America. Then they closed down. I was sad. But then Phileo took the place of Yogurtland. (Yogurtland has thankfully opened up in the UES, a couple of blocks away from me, but that’s a whole other review.)
Phileo isn’t Yogurtland but it is pretty awesome too. I love the Asian flavors: taro, green tea, and lychee. It’s not easy to find these flavors in other yogurt places. Why did Pinkberry discontinue green tea? I hate Pinkberry.

Sadly, Phileo must’ve had their fill. They closed up shop conveniently just one week before the opening of neighboring 16 Handles. I liked their prices and flavors (so what if there were less than 16?!) better… AND I even had one of my fave celeb sightings here: Jonah Hill.
Sigh… Cupcake Batter, Strawberry Tart, and Jonah… all but a memory now. R.I.P. Phileo.

Another over-​hyped place in my opinion. Phileo is located on the dessert roll in West Village next to Grom, Amy’s etc. However, it’s not the best. Indeed it’s a self-​serving place with some intersting flavors, allowing you to be creative and to try many diff combinations. However, the flavors were not impressive and erred on the side of being overly sweet. C’mmon this is fro-​yo, not ice cream. Phileo apparently you are serving a different clientile than Ben &Jerry.
Disappointed

Very good frozen yogurt on Bleecker street. You choose how many flavours you want and you pay by weight.
The inside of Phileo is green, narrowed, with some chairs to relax on. I think the best way to enjoy this tasty frozen yogurt is to have it while walking in the gorgeus Greenwich Village.

This place used to be better, I think. I was a huge fan of the pumpkin as well as the lychee tart froyo, but the last time I went everything tasted too sweet, syrupy, and liquidy. There’s a 20% off special going on though (no coupon needed) for the fall, so price-​wise, it’s a good bet.

Priced by weight. Many, many flavors from sweet to fruity tart. Love the watermelon tart. The sweet cookies and cream is delicious. Clean, consistent thick frozen yogurt. Delicious.

I thought this would be like every other frozen yogurt place when I first stumbled upon here. However, as soon as I tried the Lychee frozen yogurt, it blew my mind. They make the absolute best lychee flavor yogurt ever!!! I also tried the plain flavor and even that was pretty good. At 49 cents an ounce, you can easily overdose on the yogurt. I ended up paying a whopping $ 10 for my frozen yogurt once but I do not regret it one bit. They advertise their yogurts as non-​fat. I only wish it was calorie free as well but you can’t have everything. lol
The place is very clean. The workers are owned by Asians who are very friendly. They also have about a dozen different flavors. It’s located in the busier part of the area so it’s fun to shop around while you eat your yogurt. If you want to have a seat, you can but seats are very limited. They have about five seats and they’re usually taken.
Best frozen yogurt place I ever had. Hands down!

I love this place, I really do. I find all the flavors to be frikkin’ amazing, and successfully balanced between sweet, tart, and natural.
1. Food: Flavors I’ve had: Taro, Tart, Peanut Butter, Lychee. What most impresses me about Phileo is how genuinely the natural flavor of the item is reflected in the yogurt. Their yogurts taste sweet, but don’t bulldoze your taste buds over. I find that Sixteen Handles, Pinkberry, Red Mango, and their ilk generally taste like diabetes + powder + yogurt mix; fake and nasty. A visiting friend was bemoaning the lack of good froyo places compared to LA, and her opinion was thankfully reversed. Self-​serve at 49 cents an ounce, so don’t go crazy…
Tip #1: My go-​to right now is: Taro + banana slices + graham crumbs + coconut flakes. Cool sensory combination of sweet, subtle, bland, mushy, crunch, and flaky. Hope y’all like it!
Tip #2: the best way to sample is to take one sample cup, and expand it by pulling outwards at the rim. More surface area, and less froyo lost to the bottom.
2. Service: Can’t complain. Trying to get them to open a spot in the East Village AND start a frequent customer program.
2. Atmosphere: cheerfully pink. Small bar seating with four stools.

Definitely the best froyo place I have ever been to. The selection of flavors is unmatched, I especially enjoy the tart flavors, peanut butter, and the NY cheesecake flavor. You can come here multiple times and not be bored with the flavors just because of how many they have.
It’s located in a nice quaint section of Soho and the atmosphere is very inviting. Looks like a typical froyo store and the prices are very reasonable for froyo.

Still so in love with this place and it”s one of my favorite place in NYC for frozen yogurt! I feel like they are better priced than 16 handles and am obsessed with the fact that they have snicker doodle flavor non fat yogurt and walnuts as a topping option! Yum!

I love this place. It’s the very first spot I dream of going to when summer starts coming around. All the flavors I have tried are delicious, and the topping selection is perfect. I also think that for all I put into my cup, price is always fair.
The only thing that could make this place even better would be a larger choice of flavors and a bit more seating, although with the small space they have, I understand this is quite difficult. I still love it nonetheless.

49 cents/​oz…
We love these self serve yogurt places. We got the cheesecake yogurt. It was pretty good. Good variety of topping. The place was pretty clean & bright.
We’ll definitely stop by again if we happen to be around the area…

looks like your standard weight by the pound fro yo place but flavors wise, has quite an amount of variety.
Lychee and taro flavors? That’s all I have to say– SOLD!
I wish pinkberry and red mango has more of these Asian flavors because they are awesome.

I used to love this kind of frozen yogurt place and then I discovered Pinkberry. This place was ok, and I still love neighbor able to control my quantity and toppings but I didn’t love it. First they’re kind of stingy with sample cups but ther are a lot of flavors to choose from! But no big deal. I tried the cheesecake flavor and that was the first time I was ever off put by a fro yo flavor. I don’t know what it was but it tasted off. I was going to get the cupcake flavor but it was way too runny. I ended up settling on the thin mint flavor which was pretty good. The topping choices are fine– the fresh fruit looked good (I had raspberries mm) and there were enough candy options. I will probably give it another try and see what the other flavors are like!

Presumably the sister store to Cunnilingula Gelato. This place seems like your standard self serve frozen yogurt place. Not many of the flavors are that inventive, although it is always nice to see choices like «Cupcake» which, like most frozen yogurt flavors, are clearly made for men.
What really sold me on this place though were the rainbow sprinkles. Every frozen yogurt place has rainbow sprinkles, but Phileo managed to keep them free of jellies and fruits, and other abominations that mix with the delicious (and still masculine) rainbow sprinkle goodness that comes when people don’t understand how to use the spoon that’s included in the sprinkle choices. This allowed me to take about $ 2.00 in sprinkles and dump them on my ice cream, all for like .25 cents, without having to pick out the non-​rainbow sprinkles that sullied the pile.
Also, there was a guy there that made sure every handle was in its upright position after someone took their share of yogurt. That’s a nice touch, since it means less spill, but I’m not wild about some dude watching my yogurt intake. Let a guy have his cupcake frozen yogurt ice cream with rainbow sprinkles in peace.

«Anthropomorphism.»
If Cold Stone and Pinkberry had a love child, and that child grew up traveling the world, refining its palate, becoming proficient in etymology, and developmentally exceeding the sum of its parts, it might eventually shed its dorky childhood moniker, Yogurtland, and start going by Phileo Yogurt.
12+ rotating tart (e.g., peach; lychee) and sweet (cupcake batter; taro) self-​serve fro-​yo flavors and buffet-​style tart (e.g., pineapples, blueberry) and sweet (e.g., mochi chunks, shredded coconut) toppings make for infinite permutations of DIY, diet-​friendly desserts to fuel spring and summertime jaunts down Bleeker Street.
Self-​determined portion control is a singular plus. Serve as much or as little of everything as you like. Price is a function of your concoction’s weight. If only all foodstuffs adhered to this model. Everyone except Olive Garden patrons would be so much happier — !

They do a good job of replicating the famous YOGURTLAND… which I refuse to call phileo yogurt. What an awful name it reminds me of naughty words.
Pumpkin yogurt — you win

This place use to be called Yogurtland when the whole frozen yogurt craze just started getting popular and the price was lower. Now they changed the name to Phileo and the price is slightly higher. When Pinkberry had only one frozen yogurt flavor or maybe two, Phileo had a ton of flavors. AND it is self serve, which means you can customize your very own yogurt freely.
As you walk in, head towards the cups on the left side and choose the size of your cup. Then scan all the flavors that they offer. It can be overwhelming with all the flavors. TIP: When you decided what flavors you want, put the cup in the proper place before you push the handle down, you’ll have to wait a bit sometimes so don’t let go and release quickly or you’ll end up with too much yogurt.
There are a few seats but I like to walk to the park with the water fountain that’s a block away and enjoy the yogurt. Some of my favorite flavors are the Taro, Strawberry, Mango, Watermelon, and LYCHEE! My Favorite! It’s by the ounce and I normally don’t get extra toppings because it’s not necessary. For a cup filled with yogurt of many flavors cost me around $ 4 something.

FINALLY people on the East Coast can understand what true frozen yogurt is about.
So many love to eat at the Red Mango/​Pinkberry/​sour yogurt nonsense joints… and they wonder what real soft-​serve frozen yogurt is about. COME TO PHILEO.
We Californians treasure our frozen yogurt, and this place does not disappoint. You take a large container and fill it up with as many flavors of frozen yogurt as you want, and then with as many toppings as you want. You pay by the ounce (.49 cents), so you are in full control of your dessert experience :).
Some of the frozen yogurt dispensers were slightly runny (typical), and the selection was a little smaller than YogurtLand days, but I am a definite fan and will always support TRUE frozen yogurt!

Philly yogurt in NYC: who would have thought?
This is a self-​serve yogurt shop, with up to 12 – 14 flavors per day, although when I visited, there were a couple machines either not working or they weren’t properly labeled. Customers are allowed only one sample cup per trip, which I can understand, considering the heavy foot traffic in New York.
They had taro froyo, which I don’t think I’ve come across before. I got both taro and cupcake batter in the same cup… wasn’t the best idea, considering the cupcake batter tasted a little off next to taro. The toppings were plentiful and relatively fresh; they had red bean as a topping choice. Pretty neat! There were about 4 tart flavors, and the rest of them were sweet. The seasonal flavors were eggnog and pumpkin.
Not too much seating, but that’s okay; the décor is cute (like most yogurt shops) with a pink logo and everything. I’m surprised there’s no Phileo listing yet for the NYC location… I read a sign at the store that it’s been open since 2008.