Oh Yeah

OYeah makes the best tasting frozen yogurt in D.C. The yogurt has a natural taste — slightly sweet and tart with a smooth texture– and does not have a weird chemical aftertaste. The shop offers plain flavored yogurt and a flavor of the week. I’ve had the plain and the honeydew and both were great. The nutrition facts for the yogurt are posted at the shop and the yogurt is very light and healthy. The shop has a good selection of toppings for the yogurt, ranging from chocolate and cereal to various fruits (most of the fruit toppings are fresh). The workers are Oyeah are courteous and efficient. Since the shop is small, there isn’t a lot of (if any?) seating. The price for a frozen yogurt is very reasonable at $ 3.50 for a small with three toppings ($ 2.50 without toppings) or $ 4.50 for a large with three toppings ($ 3.50 without toppings. Oyeah offers a punch card so that you get a free yogurt on your tenth visit. The shop also sells freshly made natural yogurt and some desserts (like cheesecake, cannoli and green tea cake).

Well, I agree with the others on the décor– it is a hole in the wall yogurt place (like literally a hole in the wall of Todito grocery). I actually prefer hole in the wall places sometimes– it makes me feel like I am really giving back to the community by shopping there. BUT their yogurt is my favorite around. I like the choice of frozen or natural homemade yogurt– YUM! I like the natural tangy-​ness of the plain and have tried a bunch of the plain yogurts in the area– this is my favorite tasting. They are the only ones that offer lychees– which are a great topping. I disagree with others and think that their fruit is always fresh.
4 starts because of the hours– they aren’t as convenient as the other places, but they are sweet people who work there and have really yummy treats for cheap!!!

I decided to try this place because it is over $ 1 cheaper than its competitors — only $ 3.50 for an 8 oz yogurt with three toppings. the taste is good, but the consistency is not ideal. by time I was halfway done, it had started melting. caliyogurt and tangysweet both seem to have the consistency thing down, as they are smoother and don’t melt. this place is more similar to mr. yogato. friendly (though young) staff.

When I went to O Yeah’s it was grand opening day.
Unfortunately, it was apparent that they weren’t ready
for their grand opening quite yet.
I don’t think they even finish construction yet
because the yogurt place and the liquor store
were not completely separated yet.
This place is literally a hole in the wall.
The freezing machines were not there yet,
so they gave us their «natural yogurt.»
It was super tangy.
It was like extremely watery plain yogurt.
I thought they were going to give it to us to try,
but they charged us for the whole thing.
Wow. Honestly, if the people weren’t so nice
I would have given them a 1 star.
I am giving them the benefit of the doubt
and plan on returning shortly,
but until then… TWO STARS!

Who would be crazy enough to have froyo on a cold winter night? I would on a desperate attempt to sample every froyo place offered in the DC area. Can you blame the convenient store owners from carving a microscopic section of their storefront out for this product when there’s crazies like me chasing after this trend regardless of occasion? At least they set themselves apart from others by offering other sad-​looking baked goods in their cake refrigerator.
As for the yogurt itself, on the tart side and on the medium icy side (i.e. not as icy as those offered at Mr. Yogato). Only plain and honeydew flavors are offered, and while the standard toppings are offered, the fruit options looked old and sad in their compartments.
Would I go out of my way to come back? Hard to do unless I’m too lazy to walk the few paces to CaliYogurt on the same intersection and I’m on this side of the road before 10PM on a Saturday night.

3.5 stars.
I’ve had TangySweet and Mr. Yogato, and personally I like OYeah best.
The frozen yogurt at OYeah is similar to Mr. Yogato’s, very fresh and yogurty, unlike the frozen yogurt at TangySweet, which I thought was fake tasting. So far OYeah only has 2 flavors, original and honeydew. I’ve tried both and liked both very much, even though I’m not a honeydew fan. The honeydew flavor started with a light but distinctive honeydew taste and finished off with a little bit of almost vanilla flavor, it was very pleasant.
The girl that works there told us that although they can make all kinds of flavors, unfortunately their machine can only hold two, so they will always keep the original flavor and fill the other dispenser with rotating flavors. I think she said starting tomorrow or sometime next week they will have chocolate frozen yogurt instead of the honeydew. I can’t wait to try the chocolate.
What I like most about OYeah is that they use all fresh fruit for the exception of the mandarin oranges slices. Their fresh fruit toppings include pineapple, mango, blueberry, rasberry, strawberry, kiwi, banana, honeydew and mandarin oranges The non-​fruit toppings include oreos, granola, and some sort of cereal flakes I think. Granted, OYeah doesn’t have some of the fancy toppings like Mr. Yogato or TangySweet does, but everything is fresh.
The frozen yogurt comes in 2 sizes, small and large, the small is $ 2.50 and the large $ 3.50. And you pay $ 0.99 for 3 toppings. I would say that’s very reasonable.
They also have fresh yogurt, which I think is very cool. I mean if you serve frozen yogurt, it only makes sense that you can also serve fresh yogurt. This puts OYeah on a whole different level, at least for me. Now I can consider going to OYeah in the morning and grabbing some fresh yogurt for breakfast!
The cake fridge held at least 7 kinds of pastries and cakes, but I only remember the green tea roll cake because I’ve only seen those at Asian bakeries. I haven’t tried the cake yet but I know when I’m craving my Asian baked goods, I’m going up the street to OYeah to get some.
Make sure you take one of their cards on your way out and have the girl sign the back for you. If you buy 9, the 10^th one is free. Yay!

OYeah isn’t the cutest store, as it’s basically been crammed into the corner of Todito’s, the local bodega (and I love that bodega, I love that I have the option of buying dried lima beans, banana leaves, guanabana, chorizo and deep frozen whole fish at 10pm on a Friday, and I hope that it never turns into a Starbucks). It’s definitely not as eco-​friendly, design-​conscious or aggressively quirky as SweetGreen, TangySweet or Mr. Yogato but I’m not going to pretend like I care about any of the above characteristics because I am a terrible, evil person who is killing our planet by encouraging the use of wax-​coated cups, plastic spoons and ugly interiors.
No, instead OYeah is the only one out of the existing froyo triumvirate to get the fucking product right. The frozen yoghurt is creamy, not grainy, and has a great, light, natural yoghurt flavour, albeit slightly oversweetened. Their fruits taste fresh and aren’t mushy (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, pomegranate seeds, melon balls) and they slice the banana to order. Dry toppings include shredded coconut and crushed Oreo cookies, among others. Perhaps cereal. I don’t remember because I don’t believe in non-​fruit frozen yoghurt toppings.
They’re also offering fresh (that is, unfrozen) yoghurt with fruit toppings, as well as smoothies, and will be bringing in some «New York bakery» items in the coming weeks, like whipped cream cake (?), flavoured swiss rolls and cannolis. They also have some grim looking cupcakes, just to complete the creepy food trend circle.
It’s not the ambience, design, concept or the Cali cuteness. Just functional, utilitarian, delicious yoghurt.

OYeah is the newest entrant to the DC frozen yogurt («froyo») craze. Carved out from Todito Grocery, a wine and beer convenience store, OYeah lacks the charm, décor, or eco-​consciousness of its local competitors — namely, Mr. Yogato, TangySweet, and SweetGreen respectively. This is not a place to catch up with friends; on one side, there is a counter to place orders and, on the other side, there is a cash register next to a «New York bakery-​style» refrigerator stocked with cakes and cupcakes. OYeah believes it’s found a niche by cultivating its own yogurt but it’s unclear how this differs from all the other natural, «live culture» yogurts. To its credit, OYeah’s proprietary recipe is very tasty despite being a liquid mess. Liquid because, as of October 25, OYeah is still awaiting a desperately-​needed frozen yogurt mixer, which they expect will arrive around October 31.
2 Stars — OYeah shows promise only if you can overlook its lackluster opening. For now, I encourage you to save your $ 3.75 for later date. Nevertheless, I concede that a second visit would only be fair.