A LA CARTE EXOTIC ICE CREAMS AND SORBETS.Byline: Larry Lipson Actually, vanilla, strawberry and chocolate still rule, but it's fun for diners to check out the more obscure, sometimes quite creative, flavors of ice cream and sorbets that are available as cooling desserts on restaurant tables this summer. So here are a few restaurants where the adventurous palate will discover ice creams and/or sorbets worth a try: Belvedere Address: Peninsula Hotel, 9882 Little Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. Blvd., Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. . Phone: (310) 788-2306. Cuisine: Californian/French/Asian. Flavor(s): Carrot-cardamom, roasted pine nut pine nut or piñon (pĭn`yən, pē`nyōn), edible seed of various species of pine trees. Among the North American species that bear such edible seeds are the nut pines or piñons, Pinus edulis , walnut-rum-raisin, rosemary or basil ice creams. Price(s): $8 (three-scoop dish). Citrus Address: 6703 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. Phone: (323) 857-0034. Cuisine: French/Californian. Flavor(s): Mango, pineapple and passion fruit sorbets. Price(s): $7.50 per assorted dish. Ciudad Address: Union Bank Plaza, 445 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. Phone: (213) 486-5171. Cuisine: Global Latin. Flavor(s): Santa Rosa plum ice cream, guanabana gua·na·ba·na n. See soursop. [American Spanish guanábana, from Taino.] Noun 1. sorbet, pineapple rum batido ice. Price(s): $4 per dish (two scoops) with fruit and cookies. Chadwick Address: 267 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. Phone: (310) 205-9424. Cuisine: Organic French/Californian. Flavor(s): Opal basil-huckleberry sorbet, balsamic balsamic (bäl·sämˑ·ik), n a substance that can soften and reduce mucus. caramel ice cream. Price(s): $7. Restaurant Devon Address: 109 E. Lemon Ave., Monrovia. Phone: (626) 305-0013. Cuisine: Euro-Californian. Flavor(s): Orange-basil, citrus-tarragon and beet, have been some of the complimentary sorbets served between appetizers and entrees. Look for bleu cheese and/or tomato ice creams as desserts. Price(s): $7 per dish (3 scoops) assorted. Granita gra·ni·ta n. A granular dessert ice with a sugar-syrup base, usually flavored with fruit purée, coffee, or wine. [Italian, from feminine past participle of granire, to make grainy, granulate Address: Malibu Colony Plaza, 23725 W. Malibu Road, Malibu. Phone: (310) 456-0488. Cuisine: Seafood. Flavor(s): Sorbets of lavender-honey and lemon verbena are current. Granitas (ices) vary. Favored flavors are passion fruit and grapefruit. Price(s): $8.50 per assorted dish. Saddle Peak Lodge Address: 419 Cold Canyon Road, Calabasas. Phone: (818) 222-3888. Cuisine: American/wild game. Flavor(s): Blackberry-cabernet and passion fruit sorbets are served with fresh berries. Price(s): $6.75. Shanghai & Mein Address: 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal CityWalk, Universal City. Phone: (818) 622-6346. Cuisine: Chinese. Flavor(s): Locally made cinnamon, brown sugar and banana ice creams by Van Nuys-based Dandy Don's are served together. Price(s): $3.75 per dish. Spazio Address: 14755 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks. Phone: (818) 728-8400. Cuisine: Contemporary continental/Italian. Flavor(s): Dulce de leche Dulce de leche in Spanish, dolç de llet in Catalan, or doce de leite in Portuguese ("milk candy"), is a milk-based syrup. Found as both a sauce and a caramel-like candy, it is popular in Argentina. ice cream and melon, mango, blueberry blueberry, plant of the large genus Vaccinium, widely distributed shrubs (occasionally small trees) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), usually found on acid soil. They are often confused with the related huckleberry. and aromatic sorbets. Price(s): $3.75 per dish for sorbets, $4 for ice cream. Stinking stinking having an intrinsic fetid smell. stinking elder sambucuspubens. stinking hellebore helleborusfoetidus. stinking iris irisfoetidissima. Rose Address: 55 N. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills. Phone: (310) 652-7673. Cuisine: Italian. Flavor(s): Garlic is everywhere here, including the flavor of the ice cream. Price(s): $4 per dish. |
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