Caliyogurt

I guess call before you go, because you never know when they are going to open or close. I just walked to Caliyogurt a bit ago, but was bummed to arrive at a dark and empty store. Unilocal page said open til midnight, door said open til 11pm. I arrived at 10:45 and the place was closed. Can’t rate the yogurt, but the management is not so great.

My favorite flavor is taro for the frozen yogurt. I think the sides are overpriced and I was not happy they would not take my credit card at $ 4.95, even though the minimum was $ 5, so I had to take an extra 1 $ side which was a tiny portion of fruit (3 tiny blackberries).
The service is hit or miss. Many of the servers are really cold and never smile while one or two are friendly.

The quality if yogurt is superb here. I had a small 5oz green tea ($ 3.50), and it was quite the heavenly treat! The yogurt was just the right amount of tart, and the green tea was subtle. The whole thing tasted very light and healthy. I’ve been here a few times where they didn’t always have the green tea option, but I do hope that keep it as a regular flavor. It’s wonderful! I’ve tried their tart flavor before and it was nice too, and a bit cheaper than the green tea prices. Caliyogurt and Mr. Yogato’s original tart are officially my two favorite frozen yogurt places in DC! Caliyogurt also offers free wifi and several small tables so it may potentially be a good place to get light work done as well. :)

Run by a Korean couple, Caliyogurt at least is run by an authentic family. Nevertheless the ice cream isn’t anything amazing and the froyo is just average.
I guess if you’re really craving froyo you should drop by, otherwise it’s nothing amazing. I tried a bit of my gf’s Green tea froyo (tasted like tart) while my cookies and cream ice cream was just straight up oreo’s cookies and cream. (Nothing amazing)
All in all, it’s not too bad, but it’s nothing amazing

1. Great specialty yogurt
2. Fresh fruit toppings
3. Free wifi for chillin
4. Clean
5. New owners/​management are very friendly
6. Has yogurt, ice cream, smoothies, milkshakes, ice coffee, and multiple teas
Fantabulous yogurt especially the Taro and Green Tea. The smoothies are awesome too.
Tried the salted caramel ice cream which is also on point
All the fruit is really fresh and the employees are very helpful in deciding what goes best with which yogurt.
People said place was dirty but was very clean.

People are smoking drugs if they think this place is awesome. They have 6 flavors and not even a standard flavor such as chocolate or vanilla. Second you can’t choose your portions like you can at every single other frozen yogurt store (minus Pinkberry). A small is definitely overpriced and then you have to pay extra per topping with the first topping costing $ 1 for literally a spoonful. That means you get 6 blueberries for a dollar. When you add up the cost a small with 3 toppings ends up the same as a medium with almost unlimited toppings anywhere else. I wish they could close this place down and open up a normal frozen yogurt shop in its place.
Stepping back for a second the frozen yogurt itself is terrible and it seems that only women on Unilocal that like sweet flavors seem to like it. The flavors almost all taste identical, which suggests that they’re largely sugar based. You might as well just get the ice cream, oh wait they only have 6 flavors and it often looks freezer burned.
As other reviewers noted, its also kind of disgusting and weird inside. Close this dump.

My favorite is Peach Yogurt with Kiwi, Strawberry, and White Mochi. This pretty and colorful combo definitely makes me feel Summer is right around the corner. I also like the free honey and chocolate sauce on the side table.
With 25 calories per oz., my 8 oz. yogurt only has total of 200 Cal. Divide the calories by 2 because I share with my friend. Minus walk 20 minutes back to the car after eating my yogurt at 40 calories total. I only consume 60 Calories. Not too bad for a light dessert after heavy Ethiopian food across the street.
Don’t mix mint~choco chip with peach or orange unless you like to drink OJ after brushing your teeth.

Convenient, but the place looks like a dump, and yogurt is very tart. Trashcans were over-​flowing, and customers were just leaving trash on the tables after a while. Seems like an easy fix, but no one behind the counter seemed inclined to do anything about it.
Yogurt taste = sucking on lemon. Perhaps that appeals to some people. The ice cream is a better bet, but there are only a few flavors.
I would imagine this place does not get many return visits, perhaps luring tourists in who don’t know better. Avoid.
Will not return.

OMG! I’m waiting for the weather to break to get a cup of vanilla yogurt and load it with fresh strawberries!!! I became a fan about three years ago. It’s my spring/​summer must go to stop for yogurt. They also have a variety of other flavors like green tea!!! GREEN TEA YOGURT!!! *Homer Simpson Drooooool*
So on a 900 degree summer day — yes it gets that hot and sticky here! Did you forget DC is built on a man made marshland? — stop in and cool off with a refreshing cup of fresh yogurt, moderately priced!
Yo! For real. the yogurt is like creamy crack. it’s that good!

Usually I avoid things that are labeled «california» in this town, but Caliyogurt actually does remind me of asian froyo places in CA. Except I don’t think asians hang out in this particular one…
This place has:
Flavors like green tea, taro, melon (rotates)
a nice selection of hot teas
free wifi
flat screen tv that they use as a menu display.
top 40 tunes
they also have:
ice cream (if only it was Mitchell’s)
dry tea leaves for sale.
Now all they need to do is make either hand-​held crepes or boba drinks and I’m home!

This place is pretty small but they serve froyo, ice cream and coffee.
They only have about 4 flavors a day.
I tried the raspberry which was surprisingly good.
If I were in Adams Morgan again I would definitely stop by.

TARO! Now there’s another game in town for this enigmatic purple yogurt. Try it with some blueberries and pomegranate seeds if you need to rationalize your decision to get fro-​yo.
Good staff, convenient location, comfy seating… I’m a fan.

We got the original flavor with Oreo pieces and taro with fresh strawberries… to be honest, it was truly delicious. Truly.
So why the 2 stars? Well, with places like Yogiberry and FroZenYo in existence, I can’t possibly give this place more than that. They’ve totally shifted my expectation for a frozen yogurt joint; now I’m looking for self-​serve EVERYTHING– tons of flavors and more toppings than I could even dream of jamming into one cup. Instead, I had to pay extra for even that ONE TOPPING I got! Yes it was delish, but come on guyssss, you can do better than that!
Coming to Caliyogurt with an itch for that kind of «stuff your cup with all you can» experience left me wishing I had made the extra trip to Yogiberry…

Oh Caliyogurt I wanted to like you so badly, but you let me down. The décor is cute and they have coffee and tea too, but that’s about all that’s good. Had a smoothie from here which seemed to be mostly ice and not much fruit or yogurt. And they have these punch cards, but you can’t use them for smoothies even though smoothies are more expensive. Um… what? And to top all that off the smoothie was $ 4.50. Next time I’ll just go to Mcdonalds. It would have been better. Oh well at least I have Amsterdam Falafal to go with it which was far better.

This review is based solely on the frozen yogurt. The one star is based on comparisons to other fro-​yo places in DC, and this is easily the most disappointing of the bunch. I’m not sure if I went on an off-​day or something, but the only flavors they had were tart, green tea, strawberry, and honeydew. When other places are offering dozens of flavors, you have to step it up! Then, the toppings. I recall mochi, sliced almonds, sprinkles, and fruity pebbles, but the variety here is lacking as well. I’m a man who enjoys some pound cake with my fro-​yo!
I tried the honeydew, while my date went with the tart. We both loaded up on sprinkles. The honeydew was good. I really can’t complain, except that if I was anywhere else I would not have wanted honeydew, so it was the best of a bad situation. The tart, though, was almost flavorless. Very unappealing.
I also didn’t like that it isn’t self-​serve like so many other fro-​yo joints. I would prefer to throw my own toppings in at the quantity I prefer, and I usually enjoy mixing and matching fro-​yo flavors! Can’t do that here.
Bottom line: when I’m choosing a fro-​yo spot, I’m looking for solid, delicious flavors. That’s not what we got here.

Great place in great location. Good flavors and toppings. Fro-​yo shops seem to be on every block these days, but this place also offers tea and smoothies.
Cute décor, inside seating, and great customer service.

Apparently frozen yogurt is the new hot item in DC, over the last year or two I’ve noticed that a city that use to have no frozen yogurt places now has probably at least 973 by account. More proof gentrification is very real. Sorry not the point at all.
Anyway with all the different places to get frozen yogurt in the DC area, none are greater than Caliyogurt, especially the one in Adams Morgan. I don’t care what anyone says you can not go wrong with this place.
The yogurt is delicious, okay Cali doesn’t have as many flavors as some of other places but what they lack in quantity they more than make up in quality. You don’t need more than 3 flavors especially when you do original flavor so well. Also they actually use yogurt to make their product and not that powder stuff so many other places use.
The only reason I don’t give it more stars is because it’s pricey for frozen yogurt, a small original with one topping will cost you close to 5 dollars but to me it’s 5 dollars well spent.
The location is great, the inside is nicely designed and they don’t harass you to leave after your purchase. What’s not to like.
There may be many places for fro-​yo in DC but Cali tops them all.

I’ve been to the caliyogurt in gaithersburg, and honestly i like that one better. its the self serve concept there so its more bang for your buck since you can pick anything you like.
i got the 5 oz original with 3 toppings. the yogurt is creamy so i love that. some other places are kinda icey, and those are made from the powder base, instead of the yogurt base, so at least i know this place is legit. and the quality of the fruit looks good and fresh. i just wish they gave you more toppings and a little less yogurt.

I’ve been here probably 10 times now, and as a frozen-​yogurt die-​hard fan, I’ve finally decided where I think Caliyogurt fits within the world of DC «froyo» in terms of how it is better and how it falls short:
— I venture to say they have the best frozen yogurt itself, but lack the umph when it comes to toppings, location/​atmosphere, and service. Their yogurt is so rich and I really liked their feature flavors yesterday, peach and pink grapefruit. But… their toppings are not fresh… their fruity pebbles, I’m sad to report, were stale. Their mochi is the first multi-​colored I’ve had, which might be fun to look at, but was not as good as your classic fluffy fresh clear mochi. Their location is kind of grimey, on the top of 18^th st next to the McDonalds and the interior is really run down, smelly and dirty. Their service is a bit stingy and they don’t really make the place tempting to hang out in. For really good yogurt though, I can adapt to take-​out, just giving all you out there a heads up in case you were planning a little romantic fro-​yo date, if yo know what i mean, fro sho! ;)
— Korean roots: They are one of the only that is owned by the ‘original’ importers of frozen yogurt, Koreans, who brought it to California (maybe thus the name?) The Korean couple that owns it is often serving the yogurt themselves. I once bonded with the Korean woman over her favorite topping combo: sliced almonds and mochi (I have since evolved to add fruity pebbles, classy, i know)
— Expensive and restrictive: I don’t like that they charge you more for non-​original flavors… that’s just lame. I also don’t like that they limit the number of flavors per cup, that is not the policy over at my friends Pinkberry, nor at Sweet and Tangy. There they will squeeze as many flavors as your heart desires.

In an attempt to get my cool off and woosah on simultaneously, I stopped by Caliyogurt to get a low cal taste of deliciousness.
Unfortunately, the green tea frozen yogurt was not quite what I expected. It was actually much more tart than any green tea flavored frozen dairy treat that I’ve ever experienced. Not to my delight. So, that was probably my bad. Simple case of flavor incompatibility,
And for close to $ 4 for the 5oz in a cup, it wasn’t particularly a great deal. A somewhat stingy serving of it I might add.
But the store itself is cute, trendy and lounge inspired — clean, modern and bright.
Next time, I will sample first. And I will take advantage of some of their delicious, fresh looking toppings.