The Desserts

1. Churro – Ranking supreme as the best desert at the food court, the churro owes it victory to its cheap price and massive portion.  For a single dollar you could have a massive cinnamon-sugar stick baked and sprinkled to perfection. The churro has the crunch on the outside, and within there is the warm, soft innards.  The Costco churro easily doubles or even triples the competition on size and taste. For $1 too, it’s a must have pick up.

2. Soft Serve Yogurt – Like the pizza the soft serve is composed of three different flavors, or styles if you will.  Each one has their strengths and weaknesses.

• Vanilla – This is the perfect partner for the any of the other foods on the list.  Simple and quaint, the vanilla yogurt swirl can never disappoint. It’s always nice pairing the swirl with a more extreme food such as the pepperoni pizza or chicken bake.  The impending heart burn will be immediately dissipated by the cold, mild vanilla. It’s a must have for any meal at the food court.
• Very Berry Sundae – The perfect stand alone desert.  The fruity flavors have a hard time mingling with the others on this list so if you want to getting the sundae, this is the only thing you want to be getting.  It’s the perfect walking around snack. With the sundae, the pains of roaming the aisles is suddenly mitigated. Nothing’s that bad when slurping on some sundae.
• Chocolate – While the vanilla is creamy and cold, the chocolate is almost the exact opposite.  It’s not the good chocolate yogurt you would expect at the Costco food court: dark and decadent  It’s very cheap, even for Costco. It tastes watered down, as if the employees cut the flavor in half.  Overall the soft serve yogurt is a dank pickup, but not the chocolate, definitely not the chocolate.

3. The Berry Smoothie – again the perfect walking around drink.  The berry smoothie holds perfect consistency, it’s not too dense and not too runny.  It’s the Goldilocks of berry smoothies. and its flavor is one of a kind, unwavering throughout the years.  It can be even compared to juice giants such as Jamba Juice in taste. However, in price at just under $2, the Berry Smoothie blows away the competition.

4. The Latte Mocha Freeze – One of the more acquired tastes on the menu. The Latte Mocha Freeze commands a legion of die hard coffee drinks. This little pick me up will give you the energy to enter the gauntlet and push that huge cart around for the next hour. The flavor is intensified when the optional is added to the mix.  Just like his fruity friend, the latte mocha freeze maintains that perfect consistency.

5. Honorable Mention – The Chocolate Dipped Vanilla Ice Cream Bar- This is your long lost Grandpa that lives across the world, the one that you never met before, but still knows he exists.   You only saw him once way up at that Costco at Pasadena, and he was a lovely man. A hard, cold exterior of frozen chocolate on the outside (and maybe roasted almonds), on the inside of this sweet old man, creamy vanilla ice cream.  Whenever there is the option to grab this, definitely go for it. It might be for everyone but it’s definitely an experience.

Overall Costco is a gold mine of good food, good people, and good times.  There is just something about sitting down with your buds and munching on some pepperoni pizza outside a beloved wholesale store that brings us back to the simpler days.