Yo-Chi

Yo-Chi brings self-serve frozen yoghurt and açaí to Surry Hills, Sydney, with a choose-your-own approach built around personal taste. The idea is simple: start with the yoghurt or açaí you want, then create your own combination from the available options. The brand describes its yoghurt as a canvas for customers to handcraft their own creation, making it a flexible stop for a quick dessert or a more playful treat with friends and family.

The flavour range includes familiar choices such as Classic Vanilla and Signature Tart, alongside Salted Butterscotch, Chocolate, Cookies & Cream, Coconut, Mango, Strawberry Cream and Cinnamon Banana. There is also a vegan Chocolate flavour, vegan Coconut yoghurt made with organic coconut cream, and açaí made with sustainably sourced premium organic açaí berries. The website also highlights yoghurt made from Australian milk, live and active cultures, and freshly cut fruit prepared daily on site. It describes the yoghurt as 98 per cent fat free, while the açaí is promoted as having less sugar.

The venue concept is centred on a welcoming, creative atmosphere where people of all ages can make something to suit themselves. Yo-Chi’s language around its spaces focuses on sharing positive energy and encouraging customers to create what makes them happy, rather than following a fixed dessert format. That makes it an easy option for families, groups and anyone who enjoys having plenty of choice, while the self-serve format also works for a solo sweet stop.

Yo-Chi began as a family-owned Australian business, opening its first venue in Melbourne’s Balaclava in 2012 before expanding across the country. The Allis and Marro families remain behind the brand, which also places emphasis on local community partnerships, environmental responsibility and sourcing from local suppliers. In Surry Hills, the result is a dessert venue with a hands-on format, a broad selection of yoghurt and açaí flavours, and a clear focus on letting each customer build their own combination.