The chocolate is too intensely chocolate, and doesn't coexist comfortably with the coldness and creaminess of the ice cream. I think, perhaps, too often the flavor loaded onto the ice cream doesn't really take advantage of its existence as ice cream. LAs original Persian ice cream shop has been serving locals and tourists for years. This is the first time since my Boston Herrell's/Toscanini's/Christina's days that I have found happy ice cream. Call: 32 Mashti Malone’s Westwood 1898 Westwood Blvd. Home Desserts Scoop of Mashti Malone’s Ice Cream Turkish Coffee. Scoop of Mashti Malone’s Ice Cream Turkish Coffee. (Ice cream around here is either too airy/whipped for my tastes, a la supermarket Breyer's, or feels like sucking on a ball of cold lard. Mashti Malone’s Hollywood 1525 North La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, California 90028. Menu Catering Menu Contact About Kebab Bar 0. The saffron pistachio ice cream tastes very much of saffron, which is, in the quantities here, surprisingly warm, like a roasty vanilla - which rides happily hand-in-hand with the pistachios.įavorite is the creamy rosewater, though - this flavor I truly cannot describe, except to say it is very good rosewater, and it is balanced with the right amount of sugar, and it is quite creamy, though not too fatty in the fashion of bad imitation-Vermont ice cream. 1525 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028.
Mashti Malones Ice Cream « Back To Los Angeles, CA. None of the muddiness/oversugaredness that I associate with bad ice cream around here. View the online menu of Mashti Malones Ice Cream and other restaurants in Los Angeles, California. Best things there that I've had: saffron rosewater pistachio ice cream (confusingly referred to alternately as the saffron ice cream or the pistachio ice cream, but it's the same thing), ginger rosewater ice cream, creamy rosewater ice cream.Ībsolutely pure, happy flavors. And, because Samo mentioned it and no-one picked up on it - why the hell has nobody talked about Mashti Malone's on this board? Is it such common knowledge that one feels embarrassed to bring it up?Īnyway - for anyone who has not been - Mashti Malone's is a little - er, Persian? - ice cream place on La Brea right above Sunset.