Ice cream has a new, slimmer sister: diet-friendly yet flavorful frozen yogurt at Golden Spoon. Fat-free and with 17 calories per ounce, it's a healthy, creamy alternative to the bad stuff.
Golden Spoon looks much like your typical ice cream counter, with several soft-serve machines lined up in a row. Workers generously layer toppings at the bottom of cups and waffle cones and then liberally sprinkle more over top. There are a handful of high- and low-top tables in Golden Spoon's signature red-and-white colors, where customers sit to enjoy their frozen yogurt immediately after purchase.
Golden Spoon offers cups and cone sizes ranging from a four-ounce "mini" to a quart that can be taken home and savored later. They offer toppings like Heath Bar, Oreo Cookies and hot fudge, as well as non-fat brownie, strawberries and an assortment of nuts. In addition to traditional chocolate chips and sprinkles, they also offer carob sprinkles and chips. The carob, a sweetener derived from beans that is sometimes substituted for chocolate, has a slightly different flavor but is fabulous with every yogurt flavor.
Some of the flavors at Golden Spoon taste slightly of artificial sweetener, not uncommon when eating fat-free desserts. However, some of their flavors are exceptional. The coffee flavor tastes freshly-roasted and the "Island Coconut" is subtly sweet and delicious. The "Just Chocolate," as opposed to the sweeter flavor "Belgian Chocolate," has a muted flavor that ice cream lovers without much of a sweet tooth can relish. The "Cookies and Cream" is so flavorful on its own that adding extra Oreos isn't necessary.
Golden Spoon usually offers around ten flavors that vary slightly from day to day. It also features a secret flavor of the month not specified on their menu board. Patrons will have to become regulars to discern which flavor is new — or just ask whoever is behind the counter. Service at Golden Spoon isn't exceptionally friendly or efficient, but neither is it rude or slow.
It may not be as rich as Cold Stone creations or as creamy as the soft-serve at Dairy Queen, but at 17 calories an ounce and with flavor that holds its own, Golden Spoon is worth a try.
