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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?