48496 Sun Sep 30 11:43:06 -0700 2001 5 2 Los Angeles Area 0 241901 In my three years here I hadn't experienced great local ice cream, but I just found this wonderful Persian (I think) ice cream join in a strip mall on La Brea north of Wilshire. It's apparently been around for 21 years, so I assume some of you hounds know of it, though I didn't see any posts in the archive. (Keeping some secrets are we?) :) This is tremendous homemade ice cream shop with some innovative flavors. There is a wonderful pistachio ice cream with rosewater and saffron, which has a clean, refreshing flavor, the rosewater is not overwhelming, and the saffron seems to mostly add color. There is also a rosewater-ginger ice cream (nice, strong ginger flavor) and a rosewater ice (which I didn't get to try). I also tried Mango and Turkish Coffee ice creams. Both were wonderful. The coffee had the creamy texture of a gelato (though in my little sample, I didn't taste any of the spices one might expect from "Turkish Coffee"). The Mango had a superbly strong mango flavor. All of the ice creams had the creamy goodness of a homemade, high in butterfat product and the server was generous with free samples. Sun Sep 30 11:43:06 -0700 2001 0 SKU 1 241909 Is this the Mashti Malone's that's been on the West side of LaBrea, just above Sunset, for years and years? About the name: it used to be "Muggsy Malone's" as I recall, and supposed to evoke Irish boxers or something such. Then the current owners took over and didn't bother replacing the entire sign. Sun Sep 30 15:34:20 -0700 2001 241901 0 TE 2 241914 Sorry, yes, north of Sunset, not Wilshire. Sun Sep 30 15:56:07 -0700 2001 241909 0 SKU 2 241924 Last I heard, the owners were suing some website claiming it's Mashti name infringed on their's or something???? Sun Sep 30 18:54:14 -0700 2001 241909 0 michael (mea culpa) 1 242137 CLONE CONE!!!!! I mean, great ice cream. Also, they have Clone Cones, which are awesome. Wed Oct 03 20:14:14 -0700 2001 241901 0 travis 2 242179 What are clone cones? Thu Oct 04 13:44:44 -0700 2001 242137 0 SKU