How Does Yoggie Berrie Rate on the Belfast FroYo Scale? Pretty Darn Grrrrreat!

You can tell Smix was keen to get inside! 

Self-serve frozen yoghurt is the new big thing in Belfast, so we have been visiting the various outlets to see who comes out on top for toppings and who we want to say yes to for their yoghurt.

 Yoggie Berrie is a kitsch little cafe on the Antrim Road - bonus easier parking- which your kids will love thanks to the bear branding alone.

Its also different from the other frozen yoghurt places we've been in that it's the fro-yo shop you can take people who don't like fro-yo to.

What I mean is, if I wanted to call into one of the other places and my Dad was with me, he would be stuck not wanting anything because he's not very into frozen yoghurt. Yoggie Berrie not only has a wide range of icecreams too, but scones, cakes, traybakes and proper coffee house coffee.

This is as well as your usual self-serve frozen yoghurt station and toppings bar. Again you pay by weight so anything goes. 

You'll also not waste money as they have tiny, cute pre-tasting tubs so your kids can try the flavours before filling up a tub, just in case they aren't sure about a certain taste. 

Yoggie Berrie tend to stick to their best selling flavours and change less often than other places, but they do switch in and out the most popular tastes every two weeks. 

I also loved how they had a magic middle button on each machine that mixed the two flavours together. I got bubblegum (which I've never had anywhere else, and which I LOVED), and watermelon mixed. 

They have my favourite topping too, the fruit pebbles- little bubbles of fruit flavours that burst. They are usually found in bubble tea, so we tried a couple of teas to take home too! 

My creation

They also had another unique topping, blue granules that I've only seen on waffle icecream cones before.  Smix's whole mouth turned blue!

So a big thumbs up for Yoggie Berrie and we will be back. Oh and the staff are lovely. 

Yogland Is a Self Serve Parlour of Pure Joy

I begin a fortnight cycle of my weight loss program again tomorrow, so Michael and I rushed off to review  Yogland on Belfast's Lisburn Road this afternoon. It's a cool little Sunday afternoon treat stop that has something for everyone.

Frozen yoghurt has always been the lower fat cousin of sinful, sugar-laced icecream, but Yogland goes one further with their own blend of high protein, zero sugar recipes, some of which are gluten free.

The flavour options are immense. We tried watermelon, cookies & cream, red velvet cake batter and peanut butter, all tasted beautiful. I'm not keen on plain frozen yoghurt, but there is a classic greek flavour if you want to keep it original.

How Yogland works is simple. You pick a tub, dispense the flavours you desire in the quantity you wish. They encourage trying more than one flavour and we both were able to fit three flavours in their small tub each.

Next comes the fun part. Now if you are having frozen yoghurt as part of a clean eating, fat free diet, you can still top your tub with coconut, fruit & jelly bubbles. If you're a seven year old boy, or a total sweet tooth like myself, then the world is your oyster where toppings are concerned. You can take as much as you want, you're just limited by how much you can balance on top of your yoghurt! 

There are cereals, granola, broken Oreos & Reece's Pieces, Haribo, Love Hearts, Dolly Mixtures, Skittles, Cadbury Buttons, Smarties, just a kid's dream really. 

I tried the little fruit bubbles, which burst in your mouth. I'm wondering is that what's in bubble tea? Whatever they are, they are my new favourite thing.

Cookies & Cream and Red Velvet frozen yoghurt with bubbles, white buttons and coconut topping

Cookies and cream frozen yoghurt with bubbles, Oreos, peanut butter cups, white buttons and Smarties

As the whole process is self serve, they don't charge per tub size, but rather by weight. So they'll weigh your finished tub and charge you depending on that. 

Watermelon frozen yoghurt, popcorn, Cocopop and Haribo toppings

There are window seats downstairs, so if you have a pram in tow you can sit there. Upstairs is more spacious, with lots of bright decor and board games! While we were there a group of student age friends were enjoying their frozen yoghurts and having a Jenga tournament. 

So we loved Yogland, the variety of options means there is something for all the family. I reckon we will drive up every so often to treat ourselves. Given the health aspect, I will definitely be choosing Yogland over any icecream cafes if we are up in that area. I just wish we had one in Bangor for after school treats.