Menchie’s x Disney’s Zombies 4 Event

 

Fro-yo girl here. Thank you, Disney’s Zombies, for another free froyo event. Zombies 3 was supposed to be the final installment of the Zombies movie series, but the Zombies are back for Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires, now streaming on Disney+.

The first 50 guests at Menchie’s locations at 3 PM on July 10 received five ounces of free froyo. Menchie’s in Burbank handled the crowd in an organized fashion, handing out slips of paper to the first 50 guests. I also spotted Zombies 4 posters, cups, and a flavor, No Sugar Added Chocolate.

In Zombies 4, Zed, a zombie, and Addison, a human cheerleader, become camp counselors to two rival factions, Daywalkers and Vampires.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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Favorite Los Angeles Locations of Froyo Chains, 2025 Edition

 

Menchie's Burbank

Fro-yo girl here. It’s time for another list update. It’s been over four years since my last post about my favorite locations of the froyo chains of Los Angeles. Most of my favorite locations have changed.

Menchie's

2024 favorite: Menchie’s Burbank

2020 favorite: Menchie’s Valley Village

2016 favorite: Menchie’s Monrovia

Menchie’s Valley Village is still very good. It’s the original (first) location of Menchie's. However, it is smaller (fewer flavors) and usually crowded. Menchie’s Burbank is clean, less crowded, and has 16 froyo flavors a day. They’re very organized during the free froyo events. The froyo texture is better too. Menchie’s Burbank wasn’t always as good as it is now. The new ownership made the difference. 

Pinkberry

2024 favorite: Pinkberry Los Feliz

2020 favorite: Pinkberry Los Feliz

2016 favorite: Pinkberry Glendale

There isn’t much choice because the next closest Pinkberry in Burbank has a lot of issues with their soft serve machines and the one in Monrovia doesn’t participate in the Pinkcard rewards program. Pinkberry Los Feliz is fairly reliable though the yogurt is a bit icy.

Yogurtland

2024 favorite: Yogurtland Eagle Rock

2020 favorite: Yogurtland San Gabriel

2016 favorite: Yogurtland Pasadena on Lake

I believe the ownership of Yogurtland San Gabriel has changed since 2020. They’re no longer keeping up with promotions, and they don’t post their flavors on the Yogurtland app/website. My new favorite Yogurtland location is…Eagle Rock. The Yogurtland Eagle Rock had a funky smell for years and that’s finally gone. They’re good about keeping up with promotions and they also remodeled in 2024. And they post their flavors usually.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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Free Froyo Descendants Event at Menchie’s

Fro-yo girl here. Thanks to Disney+, Descendants: The Rise of Red, and Menchie’s for today’s free froyo event. I went to Menchie’s in Burbank, CA, for the event, and I was impressed by how organized they were. There were two employees and they handed out slips of paper to the first 50 guests. There was quite a crowd, so you had to pretty much be there before or right around 3 PM to be one of the first fifty.

Descendants: The Rise of Red is streaming now.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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Menchie’s Reopens in Burbank, Grand Opening This Weekend

 

Fro-yo girl here. I’ve been driving by to check on the new Menchie’s in Burbank for the last couple of months. The door’s been open the last few times I looked but the windows were covered. The shopping center security guard told me that the shop would open right before Thanksgiving, then in December. Well, after multiple delays, they opened on February 11. They’re hoping to have a grand opening this weekend. I’m not sure if I can make it or not (will try to go).

The new Menchie’s location is in the same shopping center as the previous Menchie’s (they moved) and it took over a year for the build out. They built it themselves and kept the tiled wall and other elements of the previous location.

There are 14 self-serve flavors a day. Froyo and toppings are $0.65/oz. Froyo cakes are coming soon.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

* MENCHIE’S: 3808 W Verdugo Ave, Burbank, CA 91505

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Menchie’s Burbank Could Reopen This Month

 

Fro-yo girl here. It’s been a year since I reported that the Menchie’s location in Burbank, California was moving (but staying in the same shopping center). They had to build out the new spot, which is right next to their old spot. The old spot became an Urbane Café which recently opened.

The goal was to open in the fall, before the school year started. They’re now hoping to open right before Thanksgiving! You heard it here first. And the exterior sign is up. The windows were covered, so I couldn’t see anything.

Update: It looks like the opening will occur in December.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

* MENCHIE’S: 3800 W Verdugo Ave, Burbank, CA 91505

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Menchie’s Burbank is Moving

Fro-yo girl here. I noticed awhile ago that Menchie’s in Burbank, California was closed. I wasn’t sure what was going on. It turns out that Menchie’s Burbank is moving. They’re staying in the same shopping center and taking over the old Kumon space. That space is right next to their old space. It’s supposed to reopen in the spring of 2022.

The last day at the old space was September 6. They’ve already demolished the inside and reduced it to rubble.

The Menchie’s Burbank shop was just finished with a remodel this year and that remodel took two years (during which time, the shop was open).

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

* MENCHIE’S: 3800 W Verdugo Ave, Burbank, CA 91505

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Long Remodel Completed at Menchie’s Burbank

Fro-yo girl here. The scaffolding that surrounded the exterior of Menchie’s is gone and the renovation of Menchie’s has been completed. It looks like the whole shopping center was remodeled and renamed The Ranch @ Hollywood & Verdugo. The renovations began in 2019.

They renovated the interior of Menchie’s too and it looks cleaner now. And there's a new outdoor patio too.

FYI, Menchie’s Burbank is currently offering full service. You can find today’s flavors on the Menchie’s app and Menchie’s website.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

MENCHIE’S BURBANK: 3800 W Verdugo Ave, Burbank, CA 91505

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New Featured Flavor at Menchie’s, Vegan Strawberry Sorbet

 

Fro-yo girl here. Menchie’s featured flavor of the month for April is a new one, Vegan Strawberry Sorbet. Made with real strawberries, the new flavor is gluten-free, dairy-free, and is made with no high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors or artificial flavors.

Wait, didn’t Menchie’s have a strawberry sorbet flavor before?? Kinda. They’ve had Strawberry smoothie sorbet, Strawberry kiwi twist sorbet, and Freshly squeezed strawberry lemonade sorbet.

I found Vegan Strawberry Sorbet at the newly remodeled Menchie’s in Burbank. It’s still full service there.

Vegan Strawberry Sorbet: It was smooth and not overly icy. While I could taste strawberries, the flavor seemed bland, like they used strawberries that didn’t have a strong enough flavor or not enough strawberries? Not terrible though. Recommended toppings: Popping boba, fresh fruit.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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2020 Burbank Froyo Guide

Fro-yo girl here. Back in 2015, I visited every place in Burbank, CA that offered soft serve froyo and found six froyo shops. Since that time, Pit Stop Froyo and Yumz Express went out of business. Otherwise, not that much has changed. No new froyo shops have opened, although Yalla Mediterranean offered Greek froyo for about 2-3 years. Yalla (1781 N Victory Pl) is part of that huge strip mall off the I-5. The casual Greek eatery opened in October 2015. I used to come for their Greek froyo, which is made with their house recipe. They had one flavor, plain, which I enjoyed topped with baklava. For years, you could check in on Yelp and get a free Greek froyo w/ a topping. The soft serve machine seems to have broken down, just like it has at their location in Seal Beach. Froyo is no longer on the menu, so I don’t have a reason to eat there.

Where you can get froyo in Burbank:

• Yogurtland (304 N San Fernando Blvd.) is in downtown Burbank. I like this location (it’s friendly and clean), but it’s across the street from Pinkberry, so I tend to go to Pinkberry instead. It’s not that I go to Pinkberry more often, but there are fewer Pinkberry locations than Yogurtand locations. I usually go to Yogurtland closer to home.
• Yogurtland (2400 W Victory Blvd.) is in a strip mall called Landmark Shopping Plaza closer to the airport. I’m rarely in that area but I’ve had a few pleasant visits there. It’s the highest reviewed froyo shop in Burbank, based on Google Reviews.
• Pinkberry (120 E Palm Ave.) is across from the AMC Burbank 16 movie theater in downtown Burbank and it has the distinction of being the first self-serve Pinkberry location. There are 12 self-serve froyo flavors a day and your typical Pinkberry toppings bar (fresh fruit, popping boba, mochi, candy, nuts, cookies, sauces, Nutella, granola, coconut, cheesecake, brownies, cereal, waffle cookies, and luxe toppings) for 49 cents an ounce. It’s very similar to a regular Pinkberry only with more flavors, larger cups and the self-serve format. Surprisingly, the price hasn’t changed in years. It was 49 cents when I wrote the post in 2015 and it’s still 49 cents. I used to like to visit this location because they had more flavors and sometimes even test flavors, but during a recent visit, the texture of the froyo was way off. 
• Menchie’s (3800 W Verdugo Ave) is in a strip mall. The ownership changed over a year ago and it’s actually gotten better since then. They renovated the shop. It seems cleaner and friendlier now. They also had a new flavor that I had a hard time finding closer to home.

Interestingly, all the froyo shops are self-serve. The froyo shops that closed definitely weren’t as good as the ones that are still open. Yumz was horrible and Pit Stop was okay. Burbank never had innovative froyo options.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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