Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt

I’ve heard so much about the Kentucky-​owned chain of fro-​yo but didn’t get a chance to taste it until almost a year after moving here. One warm summer night a few months ago, my husband and I decided to try some at this location after a long day in Lexington.
My first experience? Not so bad!
Delicious frozen yogurt of varying flavors with all the fun toppings you can pile on: candy to cereal to fruit to syrups. The price per ounce did veer towards pricey but that’s ok when it’s an occasional treat.
This location is in a quiet, not-​so-​crowded area of town with some outdoor seating and street parking. I was a bit surprised to find this here, but it must be a nice walk for some of the neighborhood residents!
Honestly, though, I don’t quite know what, if anything, sets Orange Leaf apart from other fro-​yo chains. Perhaps Orange Leaf is just popular because it’s Kentucky-​owned and everyone here is Kentucky proud? It IS good but did not impress me enough to be more memorable or preferred than other fro-​yo spots in town.
Soooooo yummy, though.
The Indian summer we’ve been having this week is a good time to appreciate fro-​yo before the chill of winter!

This is one of the few locally owned Lexington Orange Leaf locations. And they use Kentucky Proud products, so don’t let the franchise name fool you. I love the area of this location! It’s sort of tucked away, in a neighborhood. I’ve been here twice, both times after dinner at AP Suggins, which is right beside of it.
I always grab a couple of sample cups at the register and try at least two flavors. My ultimate favorite frozen yogurt flavor is birthday cake. Yesterday I favored the pistachio flavor, so that’s what I got.
It’s self serve, and then the cashier weighs it and you pay by the ounce.
Make sure that you checkin and show the cashier, so they will give you a free ounce.

A great place to visit in the evenings during the summer. The flavour selection is good and so are the toppings.

Always fresh and delicious… Just wish this location carried Sweet Cream:) Still yummy! Nice little outdoor patio and rarely crowded. Great location!

I prefer this location to others because it doesn’t get as crowded as some of the others. It’s a smaller place but they have outside seating area which is a plus.
Orange Leaf frozen yogurt has a good smooth consistency but the fruity flavors are way too sweat and artificial tasting in my opinion. My preferred flavors are red velvet, cookies & cream and vanilla. More than anything else, I love strawberry or mango bobas (popping balls of juice) that I can top my fro-​yo. Combination of creamy frozen yogurt with the exciting texture of bobas make the whole experience even better. ! A must –try in my opinion.

I’m definitely kind of bummed to see Graeters go, but I’ll be the first to admit that Orange Leaf has really transformed this place and made it a fun spot to hang out. Frozen yogurt isn’t really my thing, but they do have yummy flavors, and all sorts of toppings — and they get an extra star for giving you 2 free ounces if you check in on FB.

I ended up here by mistake. Of the 2 Unilocal reccomended ice cream joints, this was my 2^nd choice. But somehow the addy that was listed for the other place was actually Orange Leaf. Pleasantly surprised I was :) Beautiful décor, extremely nice staff and a fun concept. My 3 year old had so much fun sampling and then creating a custom frozen treat, We opted for the orange, pineapple, mango, key lime, pomegranate, vanilla bean, confetti cake with sprinkles, marshamallows, one blackberry, 2 cherries and a ton of popping boba,

My husband is a liiiiiiiiiiiiiittle obsessed with frozen yogurt, and by a little I mean that we have been known to drive an hour out of our way to try a new froyo hot spot. So, when we were in Lexington for the evening I knew we had to try out the new rage, Orange Leaf.
It was like Mecca when we walked through the door. You grab your own paper bowl and start making your own little bowl of heaven. There is a wall of literally dozens of flavors of frozen yogurt for you to choose from. And choose you can – you can put as many and as much as you want into your own bowl. There is no hoping they have twist here – you can make your own perfect blend of any and all the flavors you could dream up! I opted for a mix of fruits with mango tango and strawberry and topped it off with a little vanilla for sweetness, where my husband went with a little bit of everything. (I know I saw some banana AND red velvet go int his bowl and then I looked away…) After that you head over to the toppings station and load up on everything from the classic rainbow sprinkles to Oreo cookie bits to marshmallows to fresh blackberries.
From there you take them up to the counter where you pay by weight. And believe me – it was worth every penny!
I love so much about this from the fact that you control your portions to the amazing array of flavor options (and I hear they even have seasonal flavors like pumpkin spice and peppermint) to the fact that it is all low to no fat (excluding the topping bar, of course) to the options of fresh fruit!
It’s the perfect place for an adult to go kid-​wild while still being able to have a delicious and satisfying treat that you don’t have to feel guilty about!
We will definitely be back and have our fingers crossed that the NKY gets their own Orange Leaf sometime soon, because otherwise these sure to be weekly trips to Lexington are going to make for some expensive froyo! ;)