It’s cold. It’s creamy. It’s fat free. And at 25 calories per ounce, it’s a guilt-free dessert worth driving for. In a word: it’s Yoforia, a neighborhood ice cream joint that serves up three exquisite flavors of frozen yogurt: original, green tea, and pomegranate.
Now, before I go any further, let me clarify something: this is not your grandpa’s frozen yogurt.
I was fourteen when Anniston, AL, got its first frozen yogurt joint back in the late seventies: a “frogurt” place jammed into the abandoned Arby’s Roast Beef location on Quintard Avenue. (The new owners painted the huge, tall, cowboy hat-shaped Arby’s sign white, and then plastered a chilly-looking penguin on it.) The chocolate tasted like cocoa mixed with soured milk. The vanilla tasted like vanilla flavoring mixed with soured milk. The strawberry tasted like strawberry Quick mixed with soured milk. You get the idea.
This, I am delighted to report, is NOT the case with Yoforia’s frozen yogurt. The store and the menu are delightfully simple and streamlined. There are three flavors. There are three sizes. There are, maybe, a dozen toppings. For those of us more interested in eating dessert than debating over it, this is a godsend.
Yoforia is, at once, creamy and icy. All three flavors are smooth and clean and subtle — so subtle, in fact, that I think the toppings (oreo cookie crumbs, chocolate chips, cereals, chopped nuts, berries, etc.) tend to overpower the yogurt itself. But all three are quite good … and, at 25 calories per ounce, Yoforia offers a lot of satisfaction for very little dietary damage.
The friendly staff is generous with samples, and service tends to be quick and easy. Do pick up one of the “stamp this ten times and get a free cup” cards … because once you try Yoforia, you will be back, so you might as well earn a freebie for your troubles.
They’re also open weeknights until 10:00 PM, long after Paulo locks his doors.
(Note to Paulo: by closing at 6:00 PM on weeknights, you’re breaking me of my gelato habit and forcing me to purchase my frozen pleasures elsewhere.)
Yoforia
1402 North Highland Avenue
Atlanta 30306
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