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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".
[2] [3] Many early tiki bars were attached to hotels or were the bar sections for large Asian restaurants. [4] While some are freestanding, cocktail-only affairs, many still serve food; and some hotel-related tiki establishments are still in existence. [5] Large tiki bars may also incorporate a stage for live entertainment.
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]
Many new tiki bars and retro-Polynesian themed restaurants began to open their doors after the turn of the century. [123] [124] Non-themed bars also started placing tiki drinks on their menus, signaling a broader acceptance of the genre while also engendering discussion over what qualified to be called an "authentic" tiki bar. [125]
Tiki Bar TV is a video web series, or "vodcast". Each episode features a problem that is rectified by the episode's namesake cocktail, which is scribbled on a prescription pad by Dr. Tiki and "filled" by bartender Johnny Johnny who explains how to make the cocktail .
The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar is a restaurant and tiki bar in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel in Nob Hill, San Francisco, California. Named after the South Pacific nation of Tonga, this dining and entertainment venue opened in 1945. [1] [2] The Tonga Room replaced the Terrace Plunge, an indoor swimming pool that was installed in the Fairmont ...
Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar is a tiki bar located at the Disneyland Hotel in the Disneyland Resort of Anaheim, California, that opened in May 2011. Named one of the top five tiki bars in Los Angeles by LA Weekly, [ 1 ] Trader Sam's is one of many tiki bars gaining popularity throughout the United States, and even the world, in what some ...
Other variants of the cocktail include those created with fruits like pineapple or plants such as coca leaves. Rabo de galo Made with cachaça, sweet vermouth, Cynar, and Angostura bitters. [36] Sea breeze Made with vodka, cranberry juice, and grapefruit juice. [37] Sex on the beach Made with vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice, and cranberry ...