Bad Frog Frozen Yogurt

I am not a big fan of frozen yogurt but I went here for my nephews. We went in on a Sunday afternoon around 4 pm. There was no one else in there at that time, however, the place was a mess. My shoes stuck to the floor as I walked around. Quite a few things were not stocked up… syrups were empty, toppings were empty, napkins empty, etc.
I did not like what I got, but I think this is my lack of interest in frozen yogurt (I prefer Jeni’s ice cream). My nephews indicated that it was ok but they have had better.
Overall, disappointed we had a bad experience. Other reviewers seem to like it so maybe this was just a bad day for this location. Nonetheless, we probably won’t go back.

Not a good experience. They had no type of chocolate flavor and their staff allowed only 1 sample each and we didn’t like the one tried. So what do you do but fill up your cup with mystery ice cream at .49/​oz. Strike out on the night out.

I really like downtown Dublin and have been intrigued by the name of this place for a long time, but we usually go to Jeni’s. I came here on Saturday evening with my cousin and brother and the place was fairly empty. It’s very clean and things are well laid out for ease and convenience. I wish that sample cups were available for customer use. You have to ask a server for a sample cup if you want to try a flavor. I’ve seen wider arrays of toppings and unique flavors in other fro-​yo places, but it served our purposes. I’m also happy because there were 2 eggless flavors, so my brother could enjoy the fro yo despite his allergies. I’d come here again. I did think it was a bit pricey if you added a lot of toppings, but maybe that’s just me

We love the peanut butter sauce and buckeye candies. They always have great yogurt options and they allow you to sample without standing over your shoulder!

My husband and I came here after a very nice walk to downtown Dublin. I’m big into walking because I have fond memories of my past walking with my father for miles and miles as a child and one of the incentives in the end was always getting ice cream.
I know this is frozen yogurt but it just all seems the same to me. I gave up on all the fro-​yo places whether it’s good or bad.
I do know the best flavor I had tonight was the french vanilla and it just had the tastiest and creamiest texture. My husband compared it to crème brûlée and if there was just that topping it would be just like it.
I need more of these pleasant walks because I love reliving my childhood days. They were some the best memories from my past! Also just seeing the kids enjoying their fro-​yo on the TV screen reminded me of those pleasant days in the past.

Well, I guess they don’t open until 1:00. I was a little early with my kids and thought the ooen time was ridiculous for this time if year when kids are out if school. Oh well, this place isn’t very good anyway. It was just convenient. My kids eat it. I don’t n tastes like cardboard.

One of the better frozen yogurt places I’ve been to in awhile. The flavors taste like what they’re suppose to (I’ve been to places where they taste off and not right). Everything’s in stock when I was there, good variety of flavors and toppings. Not as expensive as other places I’ve been too.

I was never a fan of frozen yogurt until I went to Bad Frog. They have some of the best flavors and toppings. The only downside is that they change flavors a lot so if you come back you might not see the same flavor you liked the last time you went. But I like the variety, too. And they’re not too expensive.

I love the ambience of this place. Well done!!!
Parking is a pain though, and not worth it if this is the only place in downtown Dublin you plan to go. If you’ll be visiting more than Bad Frog in your visit, that would ease the pain of the parking problem.
Product… Meh… not bad, but not good either. Just average. Most of these self serve yogurt places are average product, which I’m sure is profitable given how many people believe average tasting yogurt is «great».
There is a far better place close to Bad Frog that has better product and better parking, but I won’t spam Bad Frog’s reveiws with what it is. Look for it, try it, and you’ll agree. It’s not a chain either. Locally owned and operated.

Based on experiences during a recent visit with the family, I’ll bump my rating up by a star for two reasons:
1. I asked one of the folks working at Bad Frog where the name came from. Apparently, the owners were eating Froyo somewhere in Europe on vacation and a frog jumped into their yogurt, thus the name. Weird, but it explains a lot.
2. They have Snickerdoodle flavored frozen yogurt! I’ll admit that I’ve been on a bit of cinnamon kick lately but holy moly, this stuff is awesome.

Bad Frog is all about great tasting, good quality frozen yogurt. They give you plenty of options when it comes to yogurt flavors and even more options at the toppings bar.
The staff is very friendly, always helpful, and more than happy to help you sample many of the yogurt flavors
My family and I have been back several times and the kids never get tired of going to the Bad Frog. Sometimes my wife and I think they put more toppings in the bowl than they do yogurt.
If you’re eating dinner out, make sure you skip the dessert so you can go get Bad Frog yogurt.

Most other reviews are spot on: the yogurt tastes like crap and is all low or no fat. But get a little yogurt and a lot of yummy candies to put on it, and you are in business. I don’t predict they’ll be around very long, though.

Finally back in town after a month long roadtrip I went back to the Dublin library and needing to get back into the groove of the hot Columbus summer I stopped by Bad Frog again.
The set up the same, a ton of flavors but what I did not like or remember about the first time is that you have to ask or samples.
The girl was nice enough but hidden in the back so that my son actually had to go back and ask her to try something.
I tried the two sorbets they had ginger lemonade and raspberry the latter was ok.
I got a large cup which equaled to be 10 ounces fast but the stuff was pretty tasty.
Thick and sweet like I like it.
Really like all the other places but it is compfy and friendly inside, still I doubt they will make it through the winter.

Bleckkkkkk.
Being the froyo vixen that I am, I have high standards — and Bad Frog just doesn’t perform.
The froyo is… whipped. It comes out in thick streams, yet with an airy-​mousse like texture. No thanks. Maybe that is what makes it low/​nonfat? I’m not entirely sure, because other places offer those kinds, without the odd texture. Am I the only one who hates the mousse like texture in their mouth? It even makes it lack flavor.
This place is self-​serve, but not self-​try. Which make sense when you see how thick and fast it streams out. They do offer waffle cones and those of the dipped variety, which is nice if you would prefer that. in your cup. But honestly, just get the waffle bits and mix them in your froyo. So it kind of seems pointless to offer those in hindsight.
The décor is nice and clean, and the bathrooms had automatic everything. Which was freaking fantastic.
I really wanted to give this 1-​star because, Eek! Methinks not. However, for being in Dublin, and the array of toppings (boba balls! delicious) I’ll bump up an extra star. They got creative in that area.

This is two steps lower than the other Froyo places like Orange Leaf and Cuzzins.
I had been wanting to try this place out and now that I have, I won’t need to return.
My first Issue– I hate being a blind consumer. I had no idea how much it was going to cost me. I looked and looked for prices or other information and found none. I looked to see if I could taste other kinds before choosing and found no information on free samples. No one was behind the counter so i had no one to ask. Hmm. well it can’t be too much so I dug in. I put some in my large cup and tasted. If I didn’t like it I would have no choice but to still buy it. I would later notice as I was sitting that a worker carries little sample cups and get them for you. I get it because the samples I get at Cuzzins are hard to stop at just a small taste, but it would be nice to have some notification for when their workers are in the back.
The actual Froyo was just ok but I like my other two places better. In Dublin, I would maybe say this is as good if not better than Menchies for taste but both of those places are not my style. The flavor of my two choices seemed a little weak. I would have tried more if I had known I could of.
The only cool thing here was the Mango Bobos which I have no idea what they really are but they were kind of tasty. They also have a decent selection at the topping bar with the toppings written on the spoons which makes it easy to see what each container holds. The location is kind of nice but I would stroll on down the street for Jeni’s if I was looking to cool off in Dublin.

I stopped at Bad Frog on a trip to Columbus and was impressed at how many flavors of fro-​yo they had, because the shop looks rather small from the outside. They also have plenty of toppings – mochi, juice balls, fruit, candy, chocolates, even cotton candy crunch.
I took off one star for minimal seating – they only had two or three tables inside, and when I visited they were being overrun by children. There was luckily an empty bench outside, but this could be a big drawback on a hot summer day.
Otherwise, a-​ok!

I hate that a 3 star rating is called «A-​OKAY!!!» Well, because sometimes places you go are «okay» but not «AOKAY!!!» Bad Frog is a 3, which I’ve decided is, according to Jared’s version of Unilocal,OKAY and nothing else. I just wish they would take the descriptions off of the star ratings and leave it to the reviewer to decide if the place they go is «A OKAY!!!» or just a 3 star rating.
So, I drive by here multiple times a day and I’ve been hating on it because you can no longer sit on Mezzo’s patios and have a chill adult beverage or some of Mezzo’s so-​so food because now families FLOCK like packs of wild animals to Bad Frog and make LOTS of noise – lots of screaming and yelling and crying, and Mezzo’s patios are right behind and to the right of Bad Frog and this just ruins dinner. It was so loud the other night at Mezzo that we almost left – it was like sitting next to a playground – even at 830 at night – as the screaming was just out of f’ing control. There’s a grassy area in the «square» behind all of the places on Bridge and High Streets where the breeders congregate after they get their yogurt and let the kids run wild. I feel bad for Mezzo, the waitress even apologized after we sat down the other night and we hadn’t even complained… apparently she’d been having lots of complaints. I found out after leaving that my friend told me during dinner his Grandma passed away and since I couldn’t hear him I didn’t sound interested and or give him my condolences, but spent most of dinner smiling in nodding. It wasn’t until we left that he was talking about «the funeral» and I was like, «who died?»
That being said, I decided to see why all of the breeders and their offspring have been flocking here after grabbing some sushi with a friend at Mr. Sushi tonight. The interior of this place is very sterile and uninviting. Decorated in some sickly neon green and royal blue colors – it would drive me crazy to be in here for too long. You walk in and there’s a semi-​unfriendly girl that hands out samples if you want them and explains how the process works. Maybe she was having a bad day, who knows. She didn’t seem like she was in the mood for questions, or handing out samples which is her job. I tried a few of them. I wanted to try a few more but felt like I was making her mad so I just stopped sampling :-(
Here’s my problem: all of the flavors are «weird» except for the vanilla which happens to be one of the non-​fat flavors. It tastes, well, non-​fat. Very sweet and loaded with sugar to compensate for the fact that there isn’t any fat in it to make it taste yummy. It sucks. Given that there are a TON of yummy toppings and tons of liquid toppings that call for something plain like a good vanilla yogurt this just about completely sucks. I ended up going with the peanut butter which was, I believe, the only full fat yogurt offered tonight. It was alright but oddly salty-​tasting. I tried the whopper flavor, which tasted like whoppers, but it wasn’t something I’d like a cup of.
There are a bunch of toppings – anything you can think of. I got peanut butter and put on heath bar chunks, cheesecake chunks, cookie dough, white chocolate syrup and hot fudge. It was pretty good. I will warn you – the white chocolate syrup has a milky translucent appearance and looks like something unappetizing. I’ll just stop there and leave it at that. After one squirt I was so repulsed by the appearance and the consistency that I couldn’t stomach *ahem* pumping the dispenser another time to let more *ahem* come out.
Here’s something that really annoyed me: they have whipped cream to put on your sundaes or whatever you want to call them, but it’s hidden behind the cash register in the fridge that’s holding all the Snapple. So, I didn’t notice this until I left, but I asked and it is free. Why not put it out front in a cooler or in an ice bucket so people know it’s available? Also, unlike Jeni’s up the street, there isn’t a water fountain area where you can get water, but I did see some girls ask for some and the guy behind the counter gave it to them.
So, you make your sundae, and go up to pay. You pay buy putting your creation onto a scale. Mine came to only $ 2.89 and I was actually shocked it was this cheap. Here’s how they make money though: the «cups» are LARGE or GIGANTIC. And as I sat in here eating mine with my buddy I noticed people get completely out of control and fill these things up. Mine was the large size and about ¹⁄₃ full and was $ 2.89 so if you fill it up it’s going to be pushing $ 10 for the large and God knows what for the gigantic size. If you took some kids here and let them run loose at the toppings buffet you better have some Benjamins in your wallet cause you will be paying. I’d go again, I like that I can get as much as I want or little as I want. I just want them to move away from Mezzo so I can have my conversations in peace while sitting on Mezzo’s formerly peaceful patio.

Yummy yumm yumm. So I got hooked on all these chains of self serve yorgert you fill up your own cup and add topping and weigh it after you sneak a few bites of course and they just laugh, but at the end you pay crazy$$$$$ but not here I have been going to Cherry Berry buying just a cup for me and paying 10 $ ish
But at bad frog
For 13 $
I got a cone filled with banana toped with coconut
Two kids each got their own cup which is a great way to teach choices everything is chosen for them, let’s see how they do!!!
They filled it to the top lol
But shocker!!!
Under 13 $
WOW
AND this place has great seating in side and out
Rock on bad frog

It made me want to spit it out.
Mike C is right, maybe I am spoiled because of Orange Leaf’s fantastic flavors, but Bad Frog was just plain bad. I got my all time fav from OL– peanut butter and cake. It sucked because it taste like soggy chocolate. I hate chocolate, and this was not the combination I was going for. I even put peanut butter chips and peanut butter sauce on top! The yogurt came out of the machine too thick and too fast. It did not have a creamy taste, more of a lumpy iced taste.
The toppings bar has a nice variety. Cheesecake bites (tasted more like warm graham crumbs), peanut butter chips and (the only good thing about this place) cookie dough pieces. The spoons are labeled so you don’t have to guess what is in the tub. The Carmel and Hot Fudge are in their own separate warming containers.
The space is colorful. Neon green couches squat low to the ground and the bright yellow walls actually made me yearn for the orange of Orange Leaf.
All in all, I should not complain, as I didn’t pay for it. But when my date commented, «That’s not a good face,» in response after my first bite– it was downhill from there. He really did NOT get what he paid for! It was $ 8 for the 2 of us, and the only reason I did not spit it out was because I felt really bad for him :(I can’t see this place being in business long, unless they change their recipe. The only saving grace was the cookie dough bites, in my opinion.

I give Bad Frog 5 stars for toppings and 2 stars for the actual froyo.
Maybe I am just spoiled by Orange Leaf, but the flavor here just wasn’t up to par in any of the offerings that I tried. The peanut butter was not very peanut buttery, the chocolate didn’t have a strong chocolate taste, and the thin mint was basically just mint. Everything just tasted mediocre, as if they skimped on the quality. The person I was with felt the same way and actually made some unpleasant faces as she was eating.
The toppings, on the other hand, were wonderful. I loved the hot fudge, chocolate sauce and various other sauces that were being warmed up. There were plenty of other toppings I haven’t seen before such as cookie dough bites (yum!), brownie bites (double yum!) and cheesecake crumbles (meh). The normal assortment of crushed up candy sat along side mini buckeyes and Reese’s peanut butter chips. I think I ended up with more toppings than froyo!
They have a punch card loyalty system which is pretty nice, and don’t forget to print out some coupons online! Everything inside was very clean and bright. There were 3 employees working at the time, which is way more than at the other froyo places that I visit. All of them were friendly.
I don’t know how long Bad Frog has been in business but I give them kudos for opening a froyo place right next to Jeni’s ice cream. That takes guts. I would urge them to bring in some taste testers and maybe check out a couple other sources for their froyo. Bad Frog has potential, it just needs to execute.