Sips and Snacks: Mothership in South Park
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Not your average tiki bar. Photo: Claire Trageser/Axios
The concept for Mothership sounds like it came from someone's fever dream: rum cocktails and a tiny vegetarian menu, served in a very realistic spaceship restaurant. But it works.
The big picture: The bar and restaurant in South Park has been super popular since it opened in 2022, with long lines and hard-to-snag reservations.
Flashback: Mothership started as Kindred's weekly pop-up Permanent Vacation, but then latched onto its own location like an "Alien" facehugger.
Dig in: For drinks, I tried the Homing Beacon, which blends two kinds of rum, apricot brandy and coconut cream for a fruity space escape.
- Also, Truth Serum — with three kinds of rum, orange liqueur, fig honey and bitters — was way too easy to drink.
- Food options have one-word names: Potato 001, Salad 002, Pancake 001, as if you're eating from the Death Star Canteen.
- But all of them tasted great.
If you go: Mothership is at 2310 30th St., hidden by a nondescript door.
- It's open Monday–Friday, 4:30pm–midnight, and Saturday–Sunday, 2:30pm–midnight.
- The kitchen closes at 10pm.
