Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt

Wow. This place has closed. It was so good, but I guess it just couldn’t maintain. RIP great spot.

FYI– This location has closed. I was sad to find that out after just driving up there. RIP to my favorite froyo spot :(

Great flavors… very rich taste and exactly like you would expect it to taste. Their toppings are plentiful and delicious as well. The only complaint is that the store is not as tidy as it probably should be… probably because so many people are going there to get the great yogurt. Don’t forget to use the Unilocal check-in…it is a great deal.

Love their frozen yogurt! I filled up my cup like a kid in a candy store! A very colorful and nice store, there were little kids outside screaming for some ice cream and want to go inside. This place just draws people in of all ages.
They had several different flavors, even had low carb flavors! Don’t think i’ve seen that anywhere else. As i walked in, i was greeted and explained how it all works. I grabbed the mini sample cups and tried a few flavors (i tried them all). I grabbed their cup and mixed Cookies & Cream, Cake batter, german choclate cake and shredded coconut. Loaded it with several different toppings and i was in heaven!
All that frozen yogurt came out to be $ 4, expected a lot more. Sat there, ate and licked every inch of the cup. Absolutely delicious! Considering the time i went and place was empty, a bit disappointed in service. After i had everything selected, i had to wait almost 5 minutes at the register for someone to come and ring me up as all the employees were in the back. I’m standing there staring at my cup with drool dripping down the side of my mouth, planning of different ways I’m going to devour that cup.
Overall it’s a great frozen yogurt spot, i still prefer Pinkberry but this place is great if you’re in the area.

Awesome toppings
Great yogurt.
One of my favorites! I recommend highly.
Staff is also awesome !

As the Duchess of Dairy Godmother, frozen custard is definitely my frozen confection of choice, but when I allow myself to remember that what’s inside my cup is pretty much frozen buttercream, frozen yogurt seems like a reasonable compromise.
Menchie’s has more interesting and flavorful combinations than its competitors. That is to say, unlike, for example, Yogiberry or whatever it had to change its name to, I can eat everything in the cup without feeling like I made a terrible mistake. Apple pie; hot chocolate, lemon meringue, and toppings like brownie chunks and chocolate covered maraschino cherries make for relatively exciting combinations. There is always a pleasant scent of fresh waffle cones and plenty of seating inside with high chairs and outside seating. Sampling is encouraged and the employees are nice. Open year-​round with modest specials throughout the week, their amazing Unilocal check-​in deal makes them a «must visit» whenever I’m in the area.

There are a ton of little pay-​by-​the-​ounce froyo shops around, but Menchie’s is my favorite in the area. Most of the time they have better fruit topping options than the other places. However, it’s a little inconsistent. Sometimes you’ll go in and they have really nice-​looking mango and pineapple and other stuff, then on another day it’ll be pretty ‘meh’. (Same with the mochi; sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t.)
If you lean towards the candy toppings you’ll never have a problem, but if you are trying to lie to yourself and claim that frozen yogurt is a totally reasonable replacement for a salad, then you would do well to scope out the fruit first before making your yogurt selection.
Other than that, it’s a nice little place. Very clean, the cashiers are always friendly, and very rarely are any of the machines/​flavors out of commission.

Love the low carb versions… not something I have found every where else and a must for my health. Very good flavored and a great variety as well as a wide selection of toppings. Great place to stop and have a FroYo and spend some quality time with the family playing board games.

I’m a big fan of Menchies (or anything froyo for that matter). They have a good selection of froyo and toppings. The staff are always friendly — even on a busy summer day and since i have a young daughter, the free stickers are a bonus!

I just love this place. Everything about it is cute. The flavors are cute. The spoons are super cute (and don’t cut the sides of your mouth like cheap, plastic spoons). The staff is always friendly. I love, love, love that they post nutritional info right on the machines and I love even more that they have a range of options starting at just 45 calories a serving. I always leave there feeling happy and not guilty like I do at regular ice cream shops! Yum!

*Coupon Available on Unilocal: When you check-​in with Unilocal,you get 50% OFF a cup coupon!
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Menchie’s carried an unique option to get a waffle bowl, where they make fresh waffles for you at the front. They carried several low-​calorie selections of yogurt. However, the selection of yogurt flavors were very limited with powdery-​icy-​solid texture. The chocolate flavor reminded me of Hershy’s Chocolate syrup.
Toppings: They had an organized plastic containers stacked for each dry toppings. Half of the containers had toppings mixed-​up inside :(
Fruits: …were not fresh. Maybe it was just this day, but the strawberries, btw were served whole/​uncut, were dry on the outside/​had black spots. Pineapple, banana, there were few others, but this day, they didn’t look appetizing.
Regarding to the prices, there are multiple alternatives nearby with more yogurt flavors and fresh toppings.

I was not impressed with this franchise’s frozen yogurt at all. After going to their website and seeing the numerous flavor options, I was excited to see what choices I would have here. When I arrived, the flavors were quite boring. I got regular tart, pineapple, and peanut butter. On the toppings side, there were many things. I got fudgy brownie pieces, a peanut butter cup, and mochi.
The frozen yogurts were only alright. The fudgy brownies were dry and not fudgy. The other toppings were fine. Perhaps it was only that day that I went when the flavors weren’t my style. As of my last trip, though, I am not motivated to go back.
The girls working here were cool. We paid for a water bottle, and the girl gave us a cold one from the back instead of making us keep a warm one from near the register.
The space itself is nice with many tables inside. There are a couple outside as well. Parking is plentiful, but driving on that road to get here can be horrendous.
Bottom line: I’ve had better frozen yogurt, but hey, feel free to try it out once. It just wasn’t my cup of tea.

I’ve become quite the fan of Menchie’s. I appreciate that so many of the flavors contain no HCFS and some are no sugar added. I only go for the fruit flavor ones so can’t speak to the strange aftertaste some have reported with the chocolate. Rotating flavors tend to at least try to be seasonal. Sorbet flavors come do out a little too icy for my liking and I think the topping bar could use more fruit and other non-​candy options. I still prefer Sweet Frog, but Menchie’s is much closer to me, always clean withe friendly staff, has a great frequent visitor deal, and oh yeah, isn’t a heavily religious based company. I’ll be back.

Tried Menchie’s tonight for the first time and was super pleased with the place! Better atmosphere and quality than Sweet Frog, in my opinion. Seemed a little cheaper too. I’ll definitely be back!

I first heard of Menchie’s from the TV show Undercover Boss. I really enjoy the show, and liked what I saw. Just after the TV show aired, I saw a offer on specialicious, and figured it was worth a try.
We went there today and the store looked nice and similar to what anyone would expect from frozen yogurt shop.
We sampled a bunch of flavors only because we couldn’t find one we really liked. Cake Batter was the only one I thought was okay but not terribly crazy over since it seemed really sweet. That’s the one I ended up picking though. Overall I was a bit disappointed with the offerings.
They seemed to have a good amount of toppings and they had a small freezer of prepacked frozen yogurt chilled to a much cooler temp to survive the car ride home.
We’ll be back to try again and hopefully we’ll be a little more impressed.

So I guess I’ve been here enough that I really need to write a review.
I am much more a fan of traditional ice cream than fro-​yo. To me the taste is just too different. So in order to appreciate fro-​yo, I have to load it with toppings. That’s exactly what you can do here. From broken up Heath Bar to Gummy Bears to fruit to marshmallow sauce, they have it all. Couple that with 14 different types of frozen yogurt every day, and you have to be able to find a combination you like. Mind you, most of the flavors I can’t stand and I think the chocolate tastes funky, but I’ve never been disappointed. (Do try the samples first.) In addition, the staff has been very friendly. If you’re fickle about the clientele at a place like the, understand where it is located, so the crowd is mostly families with young children and teenagers. If you’re looking for a more sophisticated fro-​yo crowd, try somewhere else.
I also have to mention the bonus card. For every $ 50 you spend, you get a $ 5 credit to your next purchase. It adds up quickly if you have kids.

Menchie’s is a real nice addition to the constellation of frozen yogurt shops that are spreading over the DC area. This location in particular, seems to fill a need for frozen dairy desserts in this neighborhood.
The layout is pretty much similar to the other shops in the area, with a bank of yogurt machines placed next to some displays of toppings. The toppings displays were easily accessible and there were a plethora of wet and dry toppings choices. The toppings that contained any nut products were separated from the other displays, helping to prevent cross-​contamination for nut allergic people. Nice touch. Then you get your creation weighed and you pay your reasonable rate of $.45 an ounce.
But while I appreciate not getting a side of religious proselytization with my yogurt like at Sweet Frog, the flavors at Sweet Frog are simply better. The flavors at Menchie’s are just not as intense as the flavors at Sweet Frog are. And Sweet Frog is (slightly) cheaper. But Menchie’s is certainly good enough to warrant repeat visits when I am in this area.

Out of all the reviews, Heather C. was closest to my experience.
Not sure if I came on a bad day or something, but their original tart machine was broken, so I was already disappointed. I got the pomegranate sorbet, coffee, and strawberry shortcake flavors. Sad to say the least, none were too amazing and weren’t too «frozen».

The store was clean and customer service was great (when we left the store the employee said «Have a smiley day!») which was awesome, but I can’t say the same about the froyo…

I came here for two reasons– I love froyo and this place is closer to me than sweet frog and I love to try new things (so that really makes it three reasons).
The price seemed to be cheaper than sweet frog but the actual yogurt comes nowhere near as tasty. I almost feel bad writing a bad review because the person that worked there was so nice and it would be awesome to write a good review so all the teeny boppers would vacate sweet frog an come here instead… But unfortunately this is not the case. Sorry menchies!!!

What a great place to take the kids for yogurt! I was skeptical going in, but after the first visit I am a fan! I even carry the Menchies club card in my wallet.
The set up in pretty simple. Grab a cup, pull your own flavors, add toppings, weigh, and pay. There are always 8+ flavors to choose from including non-​dairy and non fat. There was about 30 toppings and 5 sauces. The staff is friendly and helpful and the store is very clean.
The only thing I could say bad about the place is that the cups are too big. The smallest cup seems to be about a quart. If i let the kids do their own, they not only get too much, but it turns into an expensive trip. I tell the kids to pick three flavors and I fill the cup for them. The cup only comes to half full, but they are always happy, don’t overeat, or waste food.
That said, I am always looking for a reason to reward the kids with trip to Menchies.