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Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in 1944 at his restaurant, Trader Vic's, in Oakland, California, US. [2] Trader Vic's forerunner, Donn Beach, claimed to have instead first created it in 1933, although a longtime colleague said that Beach was actually just alleging that the Mai Tai was based on his Q.B. Cooler cocktail.
Trader Vic's Original Mai Tai. Courtesy of Trader Vic's Worldwide (Photo: Trader Vic's Worldwide) Ingredients: 2 ounces Trader Vic's Royal Amber Rum (Suggested rum in the absence of 17-year-old J ...
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".
Perhaps the most famous example of Trader Vic’s iconic contributions to culinary history is the Mai Tai. This sunny vacation cocktail was created by Trader Vic himself — Vic Bergeron sure knew ...
The other archetypical bar is Trader Vic's, the first of which was created by Victor Bergeron in Oakland, California, in 1936. The quintessential tiki cocktail, the Mai Tai, was concocted at the original Trader Vic's in 1944. [10] He began opening franchises outside of California, beginning with The Outrigger in Seattle, Washington in 1949.
Victor J. Bergeron had opened a competing version called Trader Vic's in the late 1930s in the San Francisco Bay Area and the two men were (sometimes) amicable rivals for many years. Each claimed to have created the Mai Tai (the Tahitian word for "good"), a popular rum based cocktail that Beach said was a knock-off of his Q.B. Cooler. [34]