Homemade Sodas Dressed for a Night Out
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: June 4, 2008
Restaurants are not only making their own bottled water and seltzer, a number of them are also concocting soft drinks with in-house carbonation systems.
At Broadway East (171 East Broadway, between Jefferson and Rutgers Streets), where organic ingredients rule, there is a pretty rainbow of sodas ($4), each served with garnishes and sweetened with the kind of restraint that makes them good to accompany food or to replace an alcoholic cocktail.
The current flavors, are, left to right, ginger and kaffir lime; hibiscus and rhubarb; cola with a base of kukicha, a kind of Japanese tea made from twigs and stalks; and Concord grape and thyme.
Homemade sodas in flavors as diverse as cherry-yuzu, peach, guava, passion fruit-lime and rhubarb tonic are served around the city at Savoy, Stand, Pegu Club, Jane, Perry St. and Jean Georges, among others. At WD-50 there is a delicious carbonated iced tea.
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