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August 13, 2007
Mao’s Kitchen’s Home-Made Ginger Ale
Filed under: Eat, Midtown, Westside — StyleGuide @ 5:51 pm
If your experience in ginger ale was limited, as mine was, to the two liter bottles with the brown and green labels from the soda aisle at the grocery, then ginger ale from Mao’s will seem like more than a different country, but a different world.
First the slightly carbonated, slightly lemon-scented sensation. But look out! The ginger quickly explodes from a taste to a physical mass, commandering your entire sinus cavity, but ending with a fresh and clean feeling.
It seems an elixir from the gods for the nauseous, and a palliative for a hot sunny day for the rest of us.
Mao’s Kitchen “serves the people” from locations on Melrose (with that rarest of Melrose amenities — a huge free parking lot) and in Venice on Pacific Avenue.
Price: $ ($2.50 for ginger ale, entrees from $7)
Where: In Hollywood at 7315 Melrose Avenue or in Venice at 1512 Pacific Avenue
Where do you get great ginger-ale?
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Speaking of ginger…I discovered ginger wine as of late and it is really good. It is quite a UK thing. Not only is it good as wine, but if you have any cheeep whiskey laying around you can mix the two 50/50 to make a great traditional British bev.
Hope you enjoy my comment.
Sven
Comment by Sven — September 24, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Ever since I got hooked on “Dark and Stormys” (ginger beer and black rum) on vacation to Bermuda, I’ve been very interested in what the British have to offer booze-wise. Thanks for the tip, Sven — I’ll be on the lookout for ginger wine….
Comment by StyleGuide — September 24, 2007 @ 12:43 pm