Owners Eui and Amanda Oh tell me that the popular dessert destination Yogurtland just signed a lease at 5880 Calle Real in Goleta, the former home of Blockbuster. They plan to open their second location on the South Coast in the spring of 2013.
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That’s weird with Yo Yo Yum across the street.
I just want to say that I hate Yo Yum Yum’s logo. They put little dots above the u’s, which I think are supposed to make them happy faces. But as a former German student, all I can see are umlauts, which is awkward.
Yo Yo Yum is actually a block away towards Fairview.
Yeah kind of kitty korner at that intersection. Probably this does not deter them since Rockin Yogurt(my fave in town) is directly across from them on State. Except Rockin is a different style where they run the yogurt for you like pinkberry and the quality is much better whereas Yogurtland is more about the do it yourself + toppings which is Yo Yo Yum’s thing too hence my comment.
Yo Yum Yum is a stone throw away…and Its a ghost town. I don’t know about opening another frozen yogurt place, especially this time a year. I know our winters are very mild but it may be a psychological thing to just not crave pricey frozen yogurt in the winter.
People go nuts over Yogurtland though, no so much over Yo Yo Yum. Ohh it so low calories! (oh wait nutritional info is by the .00025 ounce)
Yogurtland is a bargain compared to places that pull it for you and charge per topping.
Well, I’m not a fan of frozen yogurt but I do drive by Yo Yum Yum everyday and it is empty….they are doomed with this wildly popular place opening across the street. We don’t have an ice cream place out here! And Cold Stone does not count….that’s not ice cream. Too bad Farrell’s sucks now. That place was every kids dream…didn’t hear my parents complain either. I think they must have served some form of alcohol.
I agree Yo Yo Yum’s salvation is hot summer days but the quality and selection will not be as good as Yogurtland I think. But it may come down to rent. Yogurtland is going to take up the WHOLE Blockbuster space? They may go out of business with that and the access to Yo Yo Yum is much better than the crappy blockbuster parking access, we’ve gone to Yo Yo Yum after bowling which works well too. It will be interesting.
I believe the blockbuster building was divided into 3 places. Lemo’s pet store is in the middle now.
Yes, as Whirldly said it’s now three spaces. Bank of Santa Barbara is in the biggest, Lemos is next to that and the smallest location closest to B of A is where this will be.
My wife or I take our son to Yo Yum Yum after school about once a week. It’s not a ghost town at that time of day.
As I recall, Yogurtland is 5 cents per ounce cheaper than YYY, and it does taste better. I wonder if YYY will change their price.
As for pricing…YoYumYum is 35c/oz. Downtown Yogurtland is 40c/oz. Sweet Alley in IV is ~39c/oz (they do it per lb). Oxnard Yogurtland is 35c/oz.
YoYumYum gets crowded in the summertime from 6pm-8pm. During the summer I was there every single day.
YoYumYum uses different machines than Yogurtland. Yogurtland machines seem to keep the handles up much better and therefore keeps the FY cooler and it doesn’t get runny.
YoYumYum employees leave something to be desired.
That is the site of the new Goleta branch of the Bank of Santa Barbara that set to open quite soon.
Are they sharing that site?
All I see is an application for them to go there dated February 2012. Maybe it got rejected?
See Cris comment above, I guess they are there.
Yay, I’m excited to have Yogurtland closer to me! Hate driving all the way downtown to visit it. I hope it does well, and drives that stupid obnoxious Yo Yo Yum (their LED sign KILLS ME when I see it) out of business.
I can’t believe that frozen yogurt has made a comeback. Dating back to the 80′s and 90′s with Penguins (Fairview Shopping Center). It’s too bad Gelato isn’t mainstream here and now, and I guess real ice cream is off the table as far as popularity. What’s next? Will the “healthy” alternative to chocolate (dreadful carob) come back as well? Sigh…
I actually really like carob.
Gasp!
Carob’s bad rep comes from people seeing it as a substitute for chocolate, I think. I don’t think it tastes a thing like chocolate. As its own thing it’s tasty.
But it was a “healthy alternative” to chocolate in the 70′s. That’s how it was marketed…hence the stigma. And there just is no substitute for chocolate. Oh and now, it’s ok to eat chocolate because it suddenly has health benefits! Don’t cha know.
I agree carob is good stuff and is nothing remotely like chocolate.
For ice cream, Cold Stone Creamery is across the street.
For “ice cream,” Cold Stone Creamy is across the street.
FIFY
I personally would like to see a boba tea place in that area. I like that you can get either cold or hot drinks. Some sell appetizers and/or desserts. So sales are not dependent on the season or weather.
Takenoya has great boba.
I refuse to go back to Takenoya due to the decline in food and service quality. One particular visit “shocked” a friend and me. I only went back once after that because they advertised “Under New Management”. But I couldn’t see the difference.
Interesting. I haven’t been in a year, I guess.
Yeah it didn’t do it for me either. Only thing good about it is it is open surprisingly on the late side and they have a wide variety of stuff that was just “Ok” for me.
I like their boba, their nabeyaki udon, their mixed fish sunomono, and their dim sum. Used to get their sashimi all the time too. I’m not a huge roll eater, though.
You should be able to get boba at India Club, in the Calle Real shopping center.
thanks for the tip
Cold Stone is not ice cream….I’m not sure what it is?
SL said that, too. As a former professional ice creamer and current person-who-just-looked-up-some-nutrition-facts-and-stuff-about-cold-stone, how is it not ice cream?
It’s a partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based product a la McDonald’s “shakes.” In all seriousness though the ice cream at Cold Stone is vile. Perhaps the most off putting part is the texture which is specifically formulated not to melt like other ice creams and have a pudding like consistency. The flavor of the ice cream itself is off to not existent. The only redeeming thing is you can mix a bunch of crap in with it to make it somewhat palatable.
It has dairy in it. It’s cream based with gums and stabilizers added. Weird, this thread is the first griping I’ve ever heard about cold stone.
Seriously? Cold stone ice cream is widely hated.
As a “former professional ice creamer”? How could you possibly defend Cold Stone’s Frankenstein Whip?…what a piece of nonsense.
Somebody call the news, Charlotte said something negative.
Oh, somebody call the news! a p c isn’t pleased with Charlotte’s opinion, therefore she is proclaimed negative! Oh my….
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Careful your eyes will go bloodshot. The real news is if Lemonjelly said anything negative actually. She is too nice. Cold stones ain’t bad when I’ve tried it, gelatin or not!
lemonjelly is so nice that the second I posted my above sarcastic comment I immediately went “oh no… I have disgraced my respected friend, lemonjelly. She will be upset with me, and I will never forgive myself =(“
You guys are funny.
For me Blenders and Backyard Bowls is I need for frozen treats on that street.