The Yogurt Station

I really like this place. It’s easy to get to, has late hours and a great menu.

I enjoy their yogurt. I think I had a birthday cake flavor with sprinkles. It was nice and creamy – just the way I like it. I would go back again, and I probably will before it gets cold and they shut down.
They are not my absolute favorite frozen yogurt place, but they are in the top 5. I do wish they had a white chocolate-​type flavor. Maybe white chocolate raspberry or something like that.
Anyway, pretty good…

I used to be a Treat Dreams fan for my local ice cream needs, but now I had converted. It could be the free doggie cone or the 24 flavors of fro-​yo, but mostly it’s the smoothness and light, creamy flavor of the yogurt. The service is super nice and if there is a line it’s always moved quickly. The only issue is the parking, but if it’s after hours you can park next door. I definitely recommend you check it out. Preferably on a hot summer night when people bring out their pooches!

Today, I had another post-​studying interest in getting some late night frozen custard. We were dead set on going to Custard & Co, but decided to be adventuresome and try out The Yogurt Station. It’s closer, after all.
(As a hypothetical aside, suppose you had two choices of places to go for frozen custard: A place called «Custard & Co» or a place called «The Yogurt Station». And the place called Custard & Co has ridiculous Unilocal ratings. Yeah, thought so)
Okay, so it takes us all of 5 minutes to get here. It’s located in Pleasant Ridge, that stretch of liminal zone between Royal Oak and Ferndale, and attached to a Sonoco gas station. Gas fumes are not a pleasant way to start the experience. On the other hand, the parking lot is pretty big, and they have chairs and tables to sit at, which definitely beats sitting on cars or leaning against walls.
There is only one true flavor for frozen custard — vanilla. They do have 25 flavors, but these are blended. Frozen yogurt comes in chocolate, vanilla, swirl, and blended into 25 flavors. You can get cups, cones, dipped cones, floats, sundaes… basically, anything you can think of, they can do here. Prices are reasonable too, on par with every other walk-​up ice cream place on Woodward.
I decide to get chocolate custard with cherry dip. My adventurous companion decided on vanilla frozen yogurt with chocolate dip.
Part One: The Custard Experience
It tasted like soft serve ice cream. Not thick. Not creamy. Not even airy, like soft serve should be, but kind of that in-​between density between the two. The flavor was not very strong either, which is to be expected from a blend. The cherry dip was also not very cherry.
Part Two: The FroYo Experience
Very soft and easily melty. Also not very strong flavor, with kind of a funny chemical aftertaste. Still better than the very disappointing custard.
We didn’t finish our ice cream. I wept a little inside.