Tiki continues to make inroads in a city known more for beer than rum. The newest convert: Hue, the Bay View restaurant previously known for using seasonal ingredients in its Vietnamese dishes.
The restaurant recently hired Nicholas Koehler to take over the bar, who makes infused liqueurs and syrups for his own signature drinks (Cinnamon Basil [...]
I’m feeling embarrassed that I hadn’t heard of the Foundation Bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is a full-on traditional tiki bar in the heart of beer country.
From the photos posted online, the decor is spot on, and the 30+ drinks on the menu offer all of the classics (Blue Hawaiian, Fog Cutter, Jet Pilot, [...]
Sometimes you just don’t have time to make your own cocktails — so it would be nice to be able to grab an off-the-shelf drink to take on the run. Hula Girl Beverages are made to solve just that problem. The company sells 5 different flavors of rum-based drinks: Bikini Bling, Moonlight Mai Tai, Wild [...]
To celebrate Don the Beachcomber’s birthday today (he would have been 103), the Huntington Beach Don the Beachcomber restaurant is offering $1 Mai Tais and reintroducing the Donga Punch for 60¢.
This is a one-night only deal, so get there tonight for the bargains.
Trader Tiki was a home bartender in Portland, Oregon on a mission to blog his adventures in discovering and dissecting classic tropical drink recipes and developing a few of his own. Along the way, he found that the few commercially available syrups called for in recipes weren’t quite up to the quality standards needed to [...]
Trader Vic’s restaurants are known for their decor, excellent service, wonderful drinks, and fine food. They’re also few and far between, sparingly spead out in major cities across the United States (and the rest of the world). Exclusivity isn’t always a bad thing, as the rise, overpopulation, and fall of themed restaurants like Planet Hollywood [...]