Newly opened and offering something seemingly absent from London til now, Yorica aims to provide vegan friendly treats in a allergen safe environment.
It was busy when we arrived, quite something for a place that serves frozen treats in Winter! Or at least very early Spring. At the moment, ice cream, froyo and milkshakes are on offer but they aim to offer smoothies soon.
The bad part is their organisation, the serving counter is at the very back and there was a large line, but this is partly to do with how the counter is set up. The it goes toppings, ice cream then pay, which I think is out of order. Surely ice cream should come first? The result is that customers would try ice cream and then move back down the queue to get toppings and then go to pay. Also staff weren't asking people to move down so that they could serve more customers. 4 people serving but they could only access 2... However the guy in charge reorganised the staff so that they were more efficient, so I can't fault them too much, but it did take a while for him to do that...
The staff was seemingly fixed and I hope it sticks for the future, I chalk it up to teething problems now. As for the counter, well hopefully they can move things around.
But on to the product. We each got a small cup, which at £4.20 a pop is verging on steep. Toppings were an extra 65p each although there were some others available for free on the way out (but behind the long queue). They have a range of flavours, most fruit based but also chocolate and cookies and cream.
We opted for white peach and wowbutter (more on that in a bit) and moringa (green tea) and black current, and once received were on our way. The texture is good, can't tell the difference. The flavours, well for the most part they're great, the fruit flavours are strong and really tasty. The green tea was like others I've had but could be a little stronger, just a tad light in my opinion. The wowbutter though, that was special. It's peanut butter but without the peanuts! It really does taste like peanut butter. It does have a slight aftertaste, nothing unpleasant but something lingers, probably whatever helped create the flavour. Something special though, nothing I've experienced before!
So all in all, the product is great! Let down a little by service but nothing that can't be fixed. Like I said, probably teething problems so hopefully I won't experience that the next time. And there will probably most likely be a next time. In my opinion, on par with Snowflake which is one of the better ones in Soho in my opinion. read more