Mashti Malone's

Saffron & Rose might have our hearts whenever we’re in Westwood, but anywhere else in the city, you’ll find us digging into a bowl of ice cream from Mashti Malone’s, a longtime Persian ice cream shop with locations in Hollywood, Silver Lake and Westwood. Similar to Saffron & Rose, Mashti offers delicately perfumed ice cream flavors in rare flavor combos like ginger and rose water; orange blossom with pistachio; Persian cucumber; date; Alfonso mango; and saffron rose water. Where they differ, however, is in the excellence of straightforward stalwarts like cookies and cream, strawberry, and mint chip, so you can mix and match to your heart’s content. You can even get them blended into a shake or squashed between two wafer cookies (a Persian ice cream shop classic).