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Tiki bar culture is on an upswing. But have we considered the food? Crab rangoon, "coco" shrimp and sweet-and-sour pork defined tiki restaurant menus in the mid-century — they're best when ...
Trader Vic's is a restaurant and tiki bar chain headquartered in Emeryville, California, United States. Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 in San Francisco – October 11, 1984 in Hillsborough, California) founded a chain of Polynesian -themed restaurants that bore his nickname, "Trader Vic". He was one of two people who claimed to ...
Crab rangoon was on the menu of the "Polynesian-style" restaurant Trader Vic's in Beverly Hills in 1955 [14] and in San Francisco since at least 1956.[15] [16] [17] Although the appetizer has the name of the Burmese city of Rangoon, now known by Burmese as 'Yangon', [18] the dish was probably invented in the United States by Chinese-American chef Joe Young working under Victor Bergeron ...
Tiki bar. Kalua Restaurant (Seattle, 1953) A tiki bar is a themed drinking establishment that serves elaborate cocktails, especially rum -based mixed drinks such as the Mai Tai and Zombie cocktails. [1] Tiki bars are aesthetically defined by their tiki culture décor which is based upon a romanticized conception of tropical cultures, most ...
Three Dots and a Dash is a craft cocktail tiki bar in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Three Dots and a Dash was one of the first tiki bars with a consideration to mixology, along with Smuggler's Cove in San Francisco which opened in 2009. The bar was a success almost immediately; it sold 6,000 drinks per week in its first year.
Whidbey Island, Washington. Get ready for a whale of a good time on Whidbey (sorry, we couldn't resist). There's much to do on this island, perched in the Puget Sound about 25 miles from Seattle ...
Khao Phing Kan means "hills leaning against each other" in Thai, [2] reflecting the connected nature of the islands. Khao Ta Pu can be literally translated as " crab 's eye" island, and Ko Tapu can be translated as "nail" or "spike" island, reflecting its shape. With koh (Thai: เกาะ) meaning "island" and khao (Thai: เขา) meaning ...
Miracle Mile Historic District. Designated CP. December 11, 2017. Pago Pago Lounge was a mid-twentieth century Tiki Bar named for and inspired by the capital city of Pago Pago on South Pacific Ocean island of American Samoa. Opened in 1947, it was the first Tiki themed restaurant and bar in Tucson, Arizona located in the Miracle Mile Historic ...