Sweet Soleil Frozen Yogurt and Gelato

wow… that’s all i have to say.
i would think the quality would be better here since it is more expensive than other places.
will not be back even though the cashier was super nice.

Sweet Soleil sells gelato, froyo, smoothies, and gelato sundaes. sweet is a small shop with few tables for sitting within. pastel shades of green and orange color the interior.
froyo availability: (yocream & dreyers)
–classic chocolate
–french vanilla
–boysenberry: sweet & creamy
–original tart: yocream not so tart.
–coconut (dryers): lite coco taste, creamy,. sweet
–cappuccino (dreyers): creamy, chocolate like
pricing: self serve. .35 cents froyo & toppings. 25+dry toppings (candies, chocolate, … the usual), 6 ish fruit/​wet toppings, 6 crumbled cookies) mochi soft and blackberry was fresh.
frodrips
–taylor froyo machines, plain white laminated cups
–parking lot strangely configured. some spaces can’t hold larger vehicles
–creamy froyo melts fast in the warm outsides.
–sweet is in the middle of nowhere. 2 stars if it were in the big city.
–wacky wabbit rating: 2 stars. doubt mikey can be fooled. fork out the money and get him a sundae. he’ll like it.

This frozen yogurt shop replaced Cold Stone in the Evergreen plaza by the college and it is not bad but it seems typical. Nothing stood out to me other than the service was great. I tried the plain tart with some strawberries and it was good but did not blow my mind away. It is cheaper eating here than at Cold Stone or other self serve frozen yogurt shops that charge nearly 40 cents an ounce. A good addition to the plaza but I don’t know how they will survive when Yogurtland is opening down the street soon.

I’ve been coming here almost weekly since they’ve opened. The staff is friendly and the store is clean. However, they only have 6 flavors of frozen yogurt and a display full of gelato. You can usually find tart, vanilla, and chocolate. Their tart is pretty good… and the new San Francisco Chocolate is great!
They finally started accepting credit cards, which is great because I’m always low on cash. However, there is a $ 10 minimum. I know how much credit card companies like to hear about places requiring minimums… so I go there tonight and buy 3 frozen yogurts with toppings. They are pretty much filled to the top. My total comes out to $ 9.83. I looked at the cashier and asked if that’s ok… I’m off by 0.17 cents. The tall Asian dude in the back says «get more yogurt., you’re not at $ 10». You’ve gotta be kidding me! So I go put a little more yogurt in one of the cups and now it’s overflowing. Reweigh and it comes in at $ 10.83. I slap on 3 lids and take off.
I understand that the merchant pays a fee, ~0.35c, for each swipe of a credit card on top of a 2−3% surcharge… so the cc company probably made 0.60 off my transaction… but that’s the cost of doing business.
Yogurtland is opening soon about 2 miles down the road… and there is a new place called Toppings coming too. It’s gonna take more to stay competitive…

Returning to the bay and noticing the abundance of yogurt places, I decided to go to the closest one to my house just to test it out. It’s 35 cents/​oz here and there are 6 fro-​yo choices including original tart, vanilla, chocolate, and three other daily flavors. Today’s included Acai berry, boysenberry, and peanut butter. I just chose the original tart to see how it compares to the rest I’ve had. It was a lot icier than creamy, so if you like that, then you may like it. It also didn’t have enough of a dairy taste to me so boo to that.
In terms of toppings, they had a decent selection of fruits and dry toppings to choose from. However, the fruit either was not fresh or they were frozen so I wasn’t the biggest fan of that. Their mochi tasted good.
Overall, an okay experience. I may return if I’m craving it and don’t want to travel. Cute décor inside and they also serve a lot of different gelato flavors. I didn’t get a chance to try those so I can’t comment. The cashier was also super nice so yay to that :)

They only had one tart flavor and that was the original tart. The other options were boysenberry (not good), acai, peanut butter fudge, vanilla, chocolate. I stuck with the original tart. It’s creamier than what I prefer and was a bit runny. The toppings look like they’ve been sitting out for a while. The fruit was cut into some pretty big chunks.
We also got the «simply strawberry smoothie» but it came out tasting and looking like a peach smoothie (a good peach smoothie though). I don’t know if other places do this but we saw her put water in the smoothie too.
I’d only go here again because it’s close by. The better yogurt places are a bit of a travel for me.

This place still deserves two stars.
Since my last review, I have come here twice. On my first visit, it was pretty decent. I got the vanilla/​chocolate swirl again and mixed in chocolate cookie dough, peanuts, and oreos. It wasn’t melting as I was pouring into the cup like before. Fast forward to today, I got the same thing but it was already melting fast. It was already 9:00 pm and I overheard the girl behind the counter that they were closing 9:30 pm. Maybe they turned off the machines? I could be wrong though.
If you want froyo here, don’t come here when they first open and before they close. Too liquidy!
They do accept credit cards here now, but you have to spend at least $ 10. You are better off just using cash especially if you are alone. I give you mad props if you eat $ 10 worth of yogurt or gelato!

I went here with my friend the other day and a lot of people needed explanations on how to serve themselves froyo. It was kind of sad, but nothing too surprising. They have a very limited assortment of flavors of froyo, and their «gelato» is really frozen for gelato. Their toppings are okay, but if you really want froyo, then go somewhere else.
— limited toppings
— gelato isnt that great
— yogurt isnt that great
All together not that great!

This plaza is in my neighborhood so when I saw that the Coldstone got converted into this, I was curious to try it. I saw that they had gelato and I ordered the Passion Fruit flavor after trying a sample. I was in a hurry so I would have sampled a few more flavors before deciding on this one but since time didn’t allow, I plunked down the $ 4.85 for their *teeeny-​weeny* large size.
Back to the Passion Fruit Gelato– It was good, but not great. I wished it could have been creamier.

As always Tim and I went out for a small outing, which consisted of food of course! It’s not an outing, if we’re not treating ourselves amirightttt?
I took a look around to notice 3 froyo machines and a splended amount of toppings, then took a look at the menu with Timbo. He nearly had a heart attack, until I reassured him that was the pricing for gelato and that was not what we were here for.
No sample cups? I guess using my tongue as a spoon will hafta do, the flavors were: White Chocolate Macadamia, Boysenberry, Mint, Regular Tart and Chocolate.
I got Boysenberry, Mint and a sliver of the Macadamia which was too sweet which is the reason why I got the small amount. The froyo was great, not too icy like Tutti Frutti and the flavors I got were not too sweet to make my teeth rot.
The girl serving us was such a sweetheart and was «all smiles» according to Tim he had to tip her. *places hands under chin Great service, I think … I’ll be back today. For their additional .05 I’d spend it here over Tutti Frutti any given day … that is until Yogurtland opens, just kidding! — maybe.

yup, update time.
Sweetsoleil earned their extra star here for primary two things
1) Boysenberry flavor
2) Cheesecake topping
The cups are much lighter too, which is probably the 3^rd thing they earned it. I love the boysenberry flavor here, and quite frankly it’s the only reason i’ll come back everytime. Good job sweet soleil

FOOD:
1.) Reg Tart Yogurt = It’s good
SERVICE:
Self-​serve so it’s cheaper and can put as many different toppings as you want.
ATMOSPHERE:
Kinda small, not really somewhere I’d want to hang out

Finally frozen yogurt has come to Evergreen! Took them long enough. I always have to decide between gelato or froyo, but the mochi gets me every time and I have to get the froyo. I’m such a sucker for the mochi. The yogurt flavors are ok… I usually get the boysenberry but I wish there were other flavors I liked. I sampled the mango gelato/sorbet…blek! It’s nothing compared to gelato classico.

I’ve had better tart frozen yogurt and the gelato is expensive!

Do not go here for the gelato. Servings are itty bitty and SUPER expensive.
Stick to their froyo and you’ll be happy.

How could this be?
A good yogurt place in Evergreen. Now this is God sent.
After the water they call yogurt at Tutti Frutti to the fabulous Yogurt Land 10 miles away, this yogurt place was just what we needed.
The original tart is just perfectly tart. It reminds me of Vietnamese yogurt.
It may be that actually because it’s a family owned business by Vietnamese folk.
Excellent services!
–1 star for not having actual bananas. They actually have dried bananas.
Also 35 cents an ounce will burn a hole in my wallet. But I don’t blame them.

what’s up with that review saying it melts fast? uhm, it’s freakin‘ frozen yogurt. what do you expect?
the place= pretty good. the frozen yogurt was nice and creamy, hehe. the vanilla and chocolate frozo hit the spot. i mixed in a little tart yogurt, and that was a great balance with all the different chocolate (chips, brownie, cookie dough, white chips, almond roca) i added to my cup of self serve. the cappuccino frozo was strong, in a yummy way, for coffee lovers. it’s a little tricky adding the toppings because the setup of the toppings station is kinda weird. you have to reach far for some of it, and there’s a glass cover in your way. when its crowded, there’s no space to peruse and really try and figure out what you wanna add. i just kinda added a little bit of everything.
maybe add a few toppings in your cup, first. then some yogurt, and then some more toppings? prices are good. i got 3 small-​med. cups for under 10 bucks. the staff is friendly. overall, i am, indeed, a fan. glad it’s close by, too.

My Ratings:
Quality of Food — 5 Stars
Quantity of Food — 5 Stars
Price — 5 Stars
Location — 5 Stars
Parking — 5 Stars
Service — 5 Stars
Speed — 5 Stars
My Opinion/​Story:
Frozen yogurt after eating pizza nearby is just what we need on a boring Sunday afternoon. We were surprised this place changed to a Frozen Yogurt/​Gelato place, but glad that it did. Just like all the other fro-​yo places that’s popping out where you self-​serve and pay by ounce, this place actually has a special flavor that I enjoyed. They have gelato and lots of toppings to choose from. After going to Tutti Fruitti, I feared that their yogurt will be icy and yucky. I’m so glad they’re not like Tutti Fruitti. The people are nice, helpful and always smiling. I definitely recommend this place if you’re in the area.

I thought the décor was a little cheesy. We tried the banana gelato. It was pretty good. We’d go back for that again. We give that a thumbs up.
Not sure about the yogurt though. The toppings didn’t look all that appealing. The fruit just didn’t seem that fresh looking.
All in all, the place just didn’t seem professional, but we’d go back and try a few more things.

Froyo’s $.35 an ounce
Gelato’s $ 3.00/scoop
This is a cute place but, their froyo was really just aiiiite. It melted really fast so it felt like I was having cereal and milk. The toppings bar was pretty waaaack. The one’s toward the back were hard to reach (& I don’t have abnormally short arms) cuz there’s this glass thing in the way. I thought it was gross that my body (and others!) had to be pressed against the counter just to get to the mochi! The fruit toppings didn’t really taste that fresh either.
Their gelato looked really really unappetizing… but I had a sample because my bf wanted me to bring him home some. It was mehhhh. My bf liked it though. but he likes anything!
Bleh. Not good.