The new place is Chill, located in the same strip mall that houses Pita Jungle on Apache in between Rural and McClintock in Tempe, a veritable stone's throw from campus. The interior certainly takes its cues from the industry big shots, with warm colors and modern looking furnishings. The frozen yogurt machine has the regular yogurt, plus something I haven't seen anywhere else: Non-dairy frozen soymilk. Vegans, rejoice! The yogurt can be topped with a variety of fresh fruits sliced up in-house and small candies such as chocolate chips. Something you might want to try for a topping is mochi, a Japanese treat made of glutinous rice pounded into cakes. It has a chewy texture and a lightly sweet flavor that pairs nicely with the smooth tanginess of the yogurt. The gelato at first bite is better than average. I'm happy that I didn't see any way out of season flavors that indicate the use of canned bases instead of real fruit (Gelato Spot, I'm looking at you), but I'll have to try more of the gelato before I can say for sure whether it's truly top-notch stuff. However, the sheer deliciousness of the frozen yogurt may keep that from ever happening. Stay tuned to find out ;-)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Review: Chill, Tempe AZ
If you've been reading the blog for a while now, you might remember my recent trip to Las Vegas, where I got the chance to try frozen yogurt from Red Mango, the company responsible for starting the renaissance in frozen yogurt. Gone are the variety of sweet flavors, replaced by just two flavors: Regular yogurt, and yogurt with green tea added to it. The regular yogurt isn't nearly as sweet as the frozen yogurt that you're used to, and it has a bit more twang to it, a bit like the popular Greek style yogurts that grace the dairy case at Trader Joe's. Think of this new frozen yogurt as... yogurt flavored frozen yogurt. There are a couple of places up in north Scottsdale that have offered this treat for a little while, chief among them Ice Tango just off the 101 at Frank Lloyd Wright. I've been meaning to get up there and try it, but that part of town just isn't on my regular rotation. Somehow driving half an hour just for frozen yogurt seems kind of silly, but planning a trip to Vegas with getting my hands on more Red Mango in mind is easily justifiable. While I am planning on heading up to Vegas again soon, I was very happy to hear that a new fro-yo place just opened in Tempe, and they even offer gelato.
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As a vegan, I'm thrilled that one of these new yogurt franchises has finally to offer a non-dairy alternative. Really, when most of these businesses are offering upwards of 10 flavors, is it that hard to have a soy yogurt for those who eschew dairy for ethical or health reasons? Homemade soy yogurt tastes great, is healthier, and given current food prices is a hell of a lot cheaper to produce.
This one's a mom-and-pop operation. I'd love to see someone sit up and take notice that there are vegans out there who want a creamy frozen treat. Most gelato places offer some excellent sorbets, but sometimes you just want something creamy!
FYI for you non-dairy eaters, Green Restaurant off of Scottsdale Rd. has what they call a Soynami, soft serve soy with all the fixings. I'm pretty must addicted to them.
CHILL has improved their Frozen Soy by using an organic soy, very delicate and creamy in taste. Even better then before. It is GREAT! They also have a great fusion of Soy & Yogurt they call SOYO swirl. WOW! So good. This new frozen soy is so creamy and tasty. They call their frozen yogurt and frozen soy "Chill-Beri". Chill-Beri Frozen Yogurt & Chill-Beri Frozen Soy. I recommend it! Their phone number has changed to 480-966-0043. I noticed that on their new punch cards.
Chill is under new management. The new owners are really great. Their soft serve yogurt, vanilla soy and SoYo Flo is out of this world. You need to check them out!
Here is their Menu:
Four sizes: Large, Medium, Small and Econo-cup
All 4 sizes are the same price regardless of the product in them, (i.e yogurt or gelato, etc)
Large = $3.99
Medium = $2.99
Small = $1.99
Econo-Cup = $1.69
We also have a small kid’s cone and kid’s cup both for 99 cents.
Additional sizes: Pints $5.99 & Quarts $9.99
Frozen Soft Serve flavors: “Original Chill-Beri Frozen Yogurt”, “Vanilla Chill-Beri Frozen Soy.
Gelato flavors: “Nutella”, “Orange ’n Cream”, “Strawberries ‘n Cream Malted”, “Cookies ‘n Cream”, “Kit Kat”, “Peanut Butter”, "Mango", and others. **Note: Flavors subject to availability and a few of them are rotated each month.
Sugar-Free: Fat-free sugar free chocolate, and Strawberry Sorbet
Sorbet flavors: “Horchata”*, “Jamaica”, “Blueberry”, “Peach”, “Raspberry”, “Lemon”, "Banana", and others.
Ice Cream flavors: Green Tea
Coffee flavors: “Regular Coffee”, “Café Latte”, “Cappuccino”, “Café Mocha”, “Vanilla Latte” “Espresso” and “French Vanilla”
We also have “Hot Chocolate w/ Milk” and “Swiss Hot Chocolate”. All our coffees come in regular & decaf.
*Dairy free but yet still creamy textured Horchata flavor. Just as flavorful as before but only lighter.
Wow, vegan and diabetic friendly.
Nice mixing of third- and first-person there. It's OK to admit you own the place ;) I'll definitely stop by to check out the new place some time soon.
Their website is on the back of their punch card. I checked it out and thought that I'd pass the info on to U and others by coping their menu off of their website. this is a great place, I love their soft serve soy.
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