Icebee

I would like to review this place but even though Unilocal said it was open til midnight Saturdays — it’s not. :(

Total fan of this place, they are walking distance, the guy behind the counter is awesome and there are a ton of flavors! Best part is that they have a few chairs out front so that you can people watch.

I love ice cream and could consume unhealthy amounts religiously. To maintain this addiction without my body resembling a scoop of ice cream, I either have to limit the intake or enjoy a healthier alternative. This is where Icebee frozen yogurt comes to the rescue.
My top ten Icebee factoids and personal opinions:
1. Carefully crafted to contain high levels of beneficial live and active yogurt cultures.
2. Never heat treated after culturing, preserving high level of cultures.
3. Creamy and delicious with a close resemblance of slow churned ice cream.
4. Ensures that you receive the healthy benefits even if consumed in massive quantities.
5. Healthy substitute for breakfast yogurt and dinner dessert.
6. Great destination after walking or running.
7. Fun and colorful décor matches the palette of yogurt colors.
8. Tart flavors are my favorite and taste healthier too.
9. Tempting sugary toppings available or fresh fruit for healthier alternative.
10. No gimmick simple pricing, pay by the weight.
You get the idea, be healthier and consume frozen yogurt in moderation and avoid becoming an unhealthy statistic. By the way, you can sample before committing, and one of their friendly staff will make that happen.

Why go here when Yogurtland is in close proximity?
This froyo melts quickly. Slow eaters beware.

MELTY frozen yogurt! does that even make sense? over half of the yogurts came out drippy and wet when we tried to sample them
Signature tart: very bland
Watermelon Sorbet: hot pink neon food coloring, tastes like starburst candy
Mango tart: probably the best of the bunch. good flavor
floor and tables were dirty, cashier was non-​existent for a while
Pay with cash it’s cheaper than paying with card

NO ME GUSTAH!
If you like watery yogurt with stale toppings, than Icebee is the place for you!
The favor was pretty good but it melted really fast. My toppings were really stale that I had to pick them out of my yogurt. I recommending walking 3 blocks to yogurtland on 4^th and San Carlos.

Halfway through my first bike ride in over a year, I was pretty tired after riding a LOOOOONG 5 miles –_​_​_​_​– so frozen yogurt sounded pretty damn delicious at the time. We had our choice of Yogurtland (the safe bet) or try out Icebee. And the verdict… Icebee! Obviously since I’m writing this review…
Good variety of flavors but not as many as Yogurtland. Flavors tasted like the flavor they were supposed to taste like. The toppings bar might be sub par for some people but they had cinnamon toast crunch so I was happy :) I also got the fresh baked waffle thingy, 50 cents more, and that was OK.
It was a little pricier than I expected hence the 3 star rating. I’ll be at Yogurtland next time to get my vanilla bean froyo with cereal LOL

My pit stop after going to the museums. I love frozen yogurt and loves it better when its cheap yet tasty! Me and my daughter loves the strawberry and french vanilla mix so i had that in my cup along with pistachio and white macadamia. Tried the sample for watermelon which I liked and pomegranates which I don’t like.
Cool interior, not so accommodating store clerk but she did smile when I suggested they come up with something for valentines day… the eggnog flavor they still have was sooo last 2011!
None the less I got my frozen yogurt fix sooo… YAY!

My favorite interior design in all the frozen yogurts i’ve been too.
unfortunately, if they put the same R n D for the actual frozen yogurt recipes, I would give the taste as much praise as the place itself.
i only liked pomegranate, and that was a sorbet.
a nice walk after dinner to grab dessert is ideal but you can pass this place if you have a different favorite.
i wouldn’t go out of my way to get it, it’s sort of average.

I love this place. I live right here so I come here quite frequently. Beside the occasional weirdos, these place is good. Satisfies my yogurt cravings and yogurt accessories! The employees here are always nice and friendly. They have my oreo and pistacchio flavors her. Yummy! I always come back here. One thing they should have is a frequent buyer card, to stamp everytime you make a purchase.

I was excited to come here because I read on Unilocal that they have Watermelon and Pomegranate flavor froyo. I live DTSJ and its a bit of a drive to go to Yogurt Twist on Hostetter for my fav flavors. Came here and what I liked was that of all the flavors, there’s a pull notch to mix the 2 flavors together. Interesting enough I just keep it simple and get one flavor at a time. Anywho, I got chocolate, watermelon sorbet, and pomegranate sorbet. My 3 MOST FAVORITE FLAVORS! I tried the Lychee tart but it was nasty. Topped it off with some mochi and lychee jelly. I’m sad to say that their froyo is WATERY! I like my froyo icy and a bit longer lasting. I think if they could turn the chill notch of the machines a bit colder, the consistancy would be alot better. Could use a bit more variety in toppings.

The yogurt here is watery :(A lot of the flavors here taste weird, too. It’s either too tart, too sour, or just… too watery. I like the Icebee in SF a lot better. The only good thing about this place is that they offer 10% off for SJSU students, which is basically the same time as not paying for tax.

I am not a frozen yogurt person. I am either an ice cream or a gelato chick, this stop was made per the request of my Daughter. Even though the weather was at subzero temperature, she insists on frozen yogurt.
We walked in and saw several self-​serve machines. I see chocolate, mango, pineapple, cookies and cream, etc. I am glad that the nutritional value was posted at each station, although it was nonfat, it was still packed w/​sugar so I decided to just get my Daughter something because the chocolate choice was a tad inviting. Anyhow, my Daughter picked mango and added fruit jelly and liked it. I am not sure how much is charged per the ounce or topping but I think I paid less than $ 5 so that wasn’t bad.
The establishment was rather clean and not a bad place for a frozen yogurt date.

Stopped by after the movies. I guess this is new to this neighborhood. This is next to the wrap place.
Cute inside and feels very cozy inside. I gave their watermelon flavor. It tasted fresh and divine!
Friendly person working their that night. Offered some samples without being asked. Awesome customer service!
They also had Illy coffee in cans for $ 1/​each. Score!
Will definitely be back to try more of their flavors.

The yogurt here isn’t bad. I prefer the plain tart here since the other flavors they have are a bit off, or kind of sweet and more milky than more of a tart taste.
The place is always clean and the people that work here are pretty nice. I work across the street so its easy to me to walk over and grab some during my break. Its a plus that they’re open late, but damn imagine all the drunk people? Anyways, props to the people that work here, keeping the place clean and nice.

Even though I come here at least twice a week during my afternoon break, I can’t say this is good frozen yogurt.
Their yogurt is often watery, and not as creamy as some of the other frozen yogurt places.
However, I do like the fact that they have pomegranate and watermelon sorbet, even though they are watery as well…

Stopped into Icebee to grab some froyo while catching up with a friend. The setup is your standard «self serve froyo» with about 10+ froyo flavors and tons of toppings available.
I did a small sampling of the Mango Tart, Plain Tart, Blueberry, and Watermelon Sorbet topped with a Lychee and some mochi. Overall, I’d say the flavors were just ok. It definitely had a dull flavor and lacked some punch for each one of the flavors. But the real issue I had was the texture/​consistency. Way too soft for each one of froyos I had.
I did enjoy the wide variety of toppings, decent price, movies that they play in the store, and retro-​space age furniture.
However, with so many Froyo places to choose from, I don’t think I“d come back.

Icebee isn’t that far from safeway, there’s enough room for a few groups of people to hang out in this green and white environment with it’s modistic chairs.
flatscreen: nature film
froyo availability:
–signature tart
–cookies & cream
–green tea
–mango tart
–strawberry
–cable chocolate
–french vanilla
–watermelon sorbet
–pomegranate sorbet
–organic tart: some iciness, not so tart
–cappaccino
–very blueberry
pricing: self serve. .39 cents froyo & toppings, 20ish dry toppings (nuts, cereal, chocolates, candies.) of the usual, 8ish fruit/​jelies plus a few crumbled cookies.
frodrips
–electro freeze froyo machines, custom laminated cups
–friendly service, seems family runned or friends hanging around
–except for sorbet, most froyo had an iciness that creates a weird sensation when it goes down your windpipe like is this the big one?
–froyo creaminess mixed with icyness, sweet aftertaste. tart flavors not dominating.
–wacky waffit wating: AVOID! don’t know how mikey will react when the iciness goes down their throat…

Not so much a fan. =/
I walked in and tried a few samples. I remember Red Velvet was just like chocolate, as expected. Mango was mediocre. Green Tea was too bland. Cappuccino tasted icy. Cookies and Cream was the only decently good flavor I sampled. I was with a few classmates, and we kind of wanted to leave because we did not like the yogurt… but that is just a tad rude. So we got some. There is one semi-​circular booth, but my classmates and I sat by the counter. The chairs look like they swivel, but they don’t. Yogurt is 39 cents per ounce. The yogurt was either not tart, or not flavorful like ice cream. It was in between. Not the good in between, but the bland in between. It’s just an average yogurt shop that I wouldn’t come to very often.

I didn’t know about this fro-​yo shop until this afternoon when I walked over to the Cinema 12 to pick up my Unilocal Elite Event movie and soirée tickets. I had just devoured a massive lunch so I decided I’d go back another time.
A few hours passed as I attended the Unilocal event and the after party at Billy Berk’s. Checking the time and realizing I had nearly an hour before the next CalTrain back to San Francisco I decided to drop in on Icebee.
The shop was much less crowded than when I had walked by in the afternoon. In fact it was empty when I went so I had the whole place to myself. As is the case with their San Francisco locations this is self serve fro-​yo at 39 cents an ounce. The place was very clean and a wall mounted television was playing Ratatouille, one of my favorite animated films.
Without sampling any of the flavors first I grabbed a big cup and filled it with blueberry fro-​yo, pomegranate sorbet and watermelon sorbet then walked over to the toppings bar and threw on some lychee jelly, some canned peaches, two big and fresh blackberries and some fresh strawberries (
).
My creation came to a whopping $ 6.22, but two months after their grand opening they were still offering their 20 percent discount so my total was adjusted to $ 4.98. I thought it was a pretty cool deal. The consistency of the three frozen treats were all icy and firm. The blueberry flavor in the fro-​yo was on the weak side, but the two sorbets, while sweet, had very good fruit flavors. I think I liked the watermelon the most because it was different. The staff was friendly, and I’ll certainly be back even at the regular prices.