Before Pinkberry or Coldstone Creamery, there was Mashti Malone’s. For almost 30 years, owner Mashti Shirvani has been creating ice cream with unexpected and exotic ingredients such as rosewater, saffron, and cardamom. Don’t worry, if you’re not a big experimenter, flavors such as pomegranate, Turkish coffee and mango are available as well as the Mashti, an ice cream sandwich made of paper-thin wafers ...
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This ice-cream parlor with an Irish(ish) name stocks Middle Eastern candies on its shelves, hires indie-chick servers and sits two doors down from a tiki bar . Ah, LA.
Voted LA's best ice cream by just about every media outlet in town, Mashti Malone's is a diamond in the rough. Despite the plastic-cup presentation and mini-mall atmosphere, the parlor's unusual ice ...
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This small strip-mall shop, oddly still carrying the half-Irish moniker of its predecessor, has been churning out exotic ice creams and sorbets since 1980. The decadent flavors and friendly, sweet service are so far removed from chains that you may swear off Baskin-Robbins forever. The ice cream is made regularly on the premises, and rosewater is the base for most flavors, enhanced with Middle Eastern ...
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if gelato has become old hat, its time to think about persian ice cream. rose-pistachio, along with vanilla, strawberry, chocolate and all of the usual flavors are made extra creamy onsite at this persian bakery and community trading post. in addition to ice cream, you...
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hollywood is so sleazy and gross. im glad mashti malones is around to redeem the whole city. go because the staff is friendly, the store is gleaming, and the ice cream is absolutely exquisite...
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...but ice creams that taste like flowers is not my idea of a great dessert. I would not have given a poor rating based on just that, however. My reason for rating this place as I have is that it is NOT clean and service was just so-so. The overall feel of the place is that it's old and not kept. Signage shows age and dust. We had to wipe the table we sat at. We got our ice creams from the "not particularly ...
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