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11 06 09 | Crucial Pinkberry and Shake Shack Updates

According to Skinny Pig, Pinkberry will replace its passion-fruit flavor with chocolate (that's right, chocolate!) on November 27. Plus, the Feed hears that Shake Shack has a couple of new menu items: hot mulled cider and doughnut holes from the Doughnut Plant.

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11 13 09 | Pinkberry Dallas Opens With Chocolate Yogurt and Champagne

Last night was the grand opening party of Pinkberry Dallas, the frozen yogurt store that started the tart frozen yogurt craze in 2005. Back then, you couldn’t open up an In Touch without seeing a photo of Leo DiCaprio or Lindsay Lohan chowing down on the stuff, and rumor had it that lines were so long you had to wait an hour for a taste of the Swirly Goodness (not our term: that’s what Pinkberry press release calls it). We didn’t see any celebs last night (does Lucy Wrubel count?), but there was a searchlight, and there was a line out the door for the yogurt, so there. Our location, at Preston and Royal next to Barnes and Noble and the Merge clothing store, is the first in the U.S. outside of New York and California. The party was also the debut of Chocolate Pinkberry, and for now, we’re the only city that has it (woot!). It was explained to me that the chocolate comes from Mexico and is very expensive, because it’s tough to find chocolate that would mix with their yogurt and taste good. I thought the chocolate flavor was fine, but I like Pinkberry (and others like it) because of the tang, and chocolate doesn’t have it. I’m sticking with the original. Jump for photos and more info.

According to Pinkberry peeps, the store is going to shine above the rest of the frozen yogurt places we already have because they make their yogurt every day in-house using local ingredients when possible. The fruit for the toppings is fresh every 24 hours, etc. Franchise owner (and SideDish lover) Adam Saxton said the deal was about a year in the making. He also told us about all the toppings, which include gluten-free brownies, coconut macaroons (yes please), organic gummy bears, all kinds of fruit, and a few cereals. Original, pomegranate, coconut, passionfruit, green tea, and chocolate flavors will be for sale.

Pinkberry is open from 10am–11 pm every day. A small yogurt without topping costs $2.75 and a small yogurt with topping is $3.95, which is less than I usually spend at Yogilicious/Yumilicious when I’m free to go crazy and add six different kinds of cereal. If you’ve sampled the rest of the yogurt in town you should definitely try Pinkberry–they were the first ones doing this in the states and many companies have totally copied their interior design, topping choices, etc. It almost feels a little late in the game for a new yogurt store to open, but judging from the looks of things last night, people are still really excited about yogurt. Go try it and let us know what you think.

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11 13 09 | The Top 5 chains we wish were in Kansas City

Everybody has irrational love for a particular fast food establishment or chain restaurant -- witness the 2,484 fans on the 'I Love the Taco Via!!!' Facebook group. And so I decided to think about what chains could improve the lives of the residents in the city of fountains.
Dunkin' Donuts would have been a natural fit for this list -- but the first of several area stores in Overland Park (7722 W. 151st Street) opens today! So below are the five other chain establishments that Fat City wishes were coming to Kansas City: 
5. Friendly's -- This East Coast chain serves the classic diner food: melts, chicken fingers and burgers. But the reason you eat all your chicken fingers is so you can have dessert -- from Candy Shoppe Sundaes to the Fribble, a shake that requires maximum effort on the other end of the straw. (For Charles Ferruzza's take on two classic Kansas City diners, read this week's Cafe review.)
4. White Castle -- Kansas City hasn't been the same since White Castle slid out of town. Mini cheeseburgers make the world go round and the classic sliders that turn the white bag shiny with grease before you're out of the parking lot would be welcomed back with open mouths.
3. Pinkberry -- The Los Angeles-based frozen yogurt shop with the outlandish topping bar is what started the second froyo craze. And while there's Mochi-Yo in Leawood, the original deserves a chance to be tasted
2. Tim Hortons -- Kansas City has already lured one Canadian import in Fran's Diner, so it only seems natural that more Canadians would follow. Plus, every town needs a great rivalry and we'd all benefit from a coffee and donuts war between Tim Hortons and Dunkin' Donuts. 
1. In-N-Out Burger -- In a town that's particular about its burgers, another California chain -- In-N-Out -- could find some real converts. This is homemade fast food with hand-cut fries and burgers that make you realize that something doesn't need to be gourmet to be elevated to another level.

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11 12 09 | The Swirl Next Door

For nearly four years now, our friends in California and New York have been simply gaga about this place called Pinkberry. At first, the name made us laugh because that’s what we used to call the little red thing that popped out of our male dog when he got excited. Thankfully, that’s not what they sell. This Pinkberry is all about healthy frozen yogurt.

Now that doesn’t mean you can convert to a diet of cookie-topped swirly goodness at every meal and expect to lose weight, but it is far better for you than what comes out of most Frozen Treat Machines (funny, that was the nickname we gave our Eskimo boyfriend).

Pinkberry is the chain often credited with bringing tart FroYo to the masses in the United States. Unlike most national brands that taste as sweet as ice cream, Pinkberry actually tastes like real, honest-to-goodness yogurt. And that’s because it is.

Featuring live and active cultures and made from nonfat milk and nonfat yogurt, a small 1.5-cup serving of Original Pinkberry clocks in at a scant 100 fat-free calories of melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness. By comparison, an equal portion of Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream packs a whopping 810 calories and 54 grams of fat (33 of which are saturated) into the same portion size.

That’s a häart aätack just waiting to häppen.

The Dallas Pinkbery is the first in Texas and the first outside of California and New York. And because we like to have bragging rights here in Big D, we will also be home to the first-ever Chocolate Pinkberry. It’s dark and rich—just like we like our Latino Firefighter Calendar Models.

The store opens tomorrow, so expect to find a frenzied crowd of fanatics lining the streets ready to get their first taste of Pinkberry in Dallas. But trust us, with plenty of fly-by-night copycats already in the Dallas marketplace, you owe it to your taste buds to try the original.

It’s worth the wait.

5959 Royal Lane, Dallas
(214) 361-6617
www.pinkberry.com

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