Pinkberry
Red Sea Mall, Malek Road
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Pinkberry has been going global for a while now. After opening in 2005, the chain now has over 75 stores in the US and has gained great publicity from froyo-crazed celebrities. Pinkberry have finally arrived in Jeddah with the Red Sea Mall chosen for their flagship branch in the city.
Having already acquired a taste for frozen yogurt abroad, we were already familiar with Pinkberry having tried it in both Dubai and London (Selfridges). The Red Sea Mall outlet is little different, brightly lit with eye-catching displays of fruit and creamy yoghurt.
The menu has three main varieties of frozen yogurt to try: Original, Green Tea and Pomegranate. If you are unsure which flavor to chose, you can taste a sample of each before you commit, I would thoroughly recommend this! I tried all three, and found the green tea verging on revolting, a lucky escape! The Original was considerably better, and the Pomegranate surprisingly sweet.
As for the taste test, Pinkberry is surprisingly sweeter than other froyo brands. Here at Pinkberry the iridescent white frozen yogurt tasted more sorbet than yogurt. However accompanied by the fruit freshly cut on site the result on the whole was a good one, and if you’re a calorie counter, a small cup of small original contains just 98 calories, which in my book is still pretty good!
If you dont fancy eating your Pinkberry, you can also drink it, smoothies are made fresh right in front of you (with the option to add sugar), or visitors can chose to try their (relatively) new fruit parfait made from layers of fruit topped with a small amount of frozen yogurt.
All in all, Pinkberry definitely has something to offer to the health-conscious crowd of the Middle East, and its a welcome reprieve from the perils of ice cream. Freshberry and Marcels look out..
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I tried Pinkberry very recently, and while it was good in taste (not in proportion of yogurt to toppings), the main reason I will ALWAYS prefer The Fozen Yogurt Factory (~100 meters from Pinkberry in RS Mall). At Pinkberry, they add the toppings for you, and they also limit you to the number of toppings depending on the size you buy, any extra cost more. The amount of toppings I got was disappointing and dissatisfying.
It is the not the number that should matter, but the amount. Hence, at The Frozen Yogurt Factory, price is per weight, REGARDLESS of the number of different flavors of yogurt or number of different toppings you squeeze in to your cup! And BEST OF ALL, you get to do everything yourself, and so, my routine combination: 50% yogurt, 50% exotic expensive fruits, fruits that sell for SR. 170+/kg next door in Danube! One day I want to go there and just get the expensive fruit in the bowl, nothing else, and see if they let me!
Really, if Pinkberry wants to be competitive, they should adopt a similar service and pricing model as their competitor down the lane inside the mall.
BTW, regardless of the companies, frozen yogurt can not really be called healthy (unless you eat it like I do!). Yes, they are fat free, but they are loaded with sugar (sugar is the 1st ingredient after skim milk). And high sugar consumption is just as bad for health as high fat consumption, actually worse. And most people seem to go for the unhealthy toppings anyway… people can eat what they like, I just don’t want them to get a huge cup of sugar-loaded frozen yogurt then top it with candy bar pieces and then think they had something healthy because the frozen yogurt on its own is supposedly healthy! Yes, one healthy aspect that they do have is live beneficial bacteria.
We did go to there red sea mall branch over the weekend i think the yogurt is good but wow the price realy to high ?? i payd 32 SR
I really enjoyed their frozen yogurt !!
u should give it a try .. <3 <3 =) !!
I prefer SNOG from London and Kuwait since it has no sugar or chemical and pink berry is very unhealthy
when will they open in Saudi as I am here on work for 3 years
I have tried it in Dubai for the first time, and I Must say I enjoyed the setting and the additives more than the yogurt itself. I don’t mean it was not good, but I have had better. Your review did not encourage me to give it a try for several reasons, one you are not really positive on it, the second its location inside Red Sea Mall, a very noisy and crowded mall that I try to avoid as much as I can, the third and final reason is that there are several other outlets that I have tried and thought were quite good. Marcel’s for instance is very yummy.
I agree with you the mall is very busy, and I probably would not cross town for the stuff again, the FroYo craze seems to be hitting Jeddah a little late and even so, I’m more of a Gelato kind of guy myself; (which is still not as fattening as ice cream), but tends to taste far superior than FroYo.
I would rather eat ice cream or gelato occasionally/ once in a blue moon – that tastes good, than eat froyo on a regular basis just because it has fewer calories.