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Old menu cover, original Trader Vic's, Oakland. 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".
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 commonly Polynesian.
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 District.
The original tiki bar is said to be Don the Beachcomber, whose first location opened in Los Angeles in 1934. Ernest Beaumont Gantt, the owner, had traveled through the Caribbean and Pacific before ...
One of the best local places for drinks and salt air, Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, made national news this week. The Carolina Beach bar is one of 27 included on the 2024 USA TODAY Bars of the Year list .
Category for Tiki themed alcoholic mixed drinks typically served at Tiki bars, such as those historically served at Don the Beachcomber's, Trader Vic's, the Tiki Ti, Tonga Room or Mai-Kai. May also include so called "Atomic cocktails" now associated with post World War II retroism.
Leading up to 2024, experts predicted the proliferation of Caesar salads, ranch dressing, and rooster-shaped pasta — and it all came to fruition, to varying degrees, over the last year in ...
The Mai-Kai is a Polynesian-themed restaurant and tiki bar in Oakland Park, Florida. It opened to the public on December 28, 1956, and is one of the few "Grand Polynesian Palaces of Tiki" still in operation today. [3] In 2015 it was named the "best tiki bar in the world" by Critiki, an organization of fans of Polynesian pop culture. [4]