The egg creams (soda water mixed with chocolate or vanilla syrup and milk) and cherry-lime rickeys (lime juice and maraschino cherries mixed with lemon-lime soda) are not to be missed here.

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Sierra Mist, a new caffeine-free lemon-lime soda that competes with Coca-Cola's Sprite and Cadbury Schweppes' 7up, doesn't exactly make soda into a nutritional beverage, but it blunts one long-standing criticism of Mountain Dew and cola drinks: that they use caffeine as a hook.

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Additionally. we devoured Black Truffle and Comte Cheese Fritters with Lime Salt, Broiled Bone Marrow with Parsley-Lemon Gremolata, and creamed spinach all washed down with cherry yuzu soda, house made ginger ale and calamansi soda!

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