Post #120196 by dogbytes on Mon, Oct 18, 2004 5:00 PM

driving from Boston to Vermont we planned on eating in Concord, NH ~ and saw this from the roadway.


nifty A Frame

there were no cars in the parking lot, and we had already had chinese-polynesian food 3 times in MA ~ so we decided to go in "for drinks" and to take pictures; but it didn't look incredibly promising.

camera in hand and all excited to have discovered something tiki in New Hampshire, we were met by a surly Chinese man. realizing there was nothing tiki in the dining room, we went into the bar "for a drink" as an excuse to poke around more. the surly man became the suspicious man ~ he handed us a drink menu, complete with pictures ~ but no mugs were in use. we ordered a diet coke and a mai tai.

there were a few handmade palm trees, a mural (pine trees), and a lava rock wall

Tiki-wise, there were 2:

while todd tried to drink is mai tai (strong booze but tinny tasting pineapple juice overpowered any other flavor in the drink) i sipped my diet coke. i think there was one guy drinking a beer at the bar. the Surly-Suspicious Chinese Man just watched me as i looked at the menus and around the restaurant. Todd and i concluded Mr Surly-Suspicious must think i was opening a competing restaurant or something...

as we paid our bar tab, i offered to buy a drink and dinner menu ~ my request was denied before i could finish my sentence. the dismay on my face was obvious. we told SSCM that we were visiting from Seattle and were happy to have found his Tiki Restaurant. SSCM gave us our change, and then rather grumpily handed me onematchbook, which i accepted with glee.

thinking back, maybe i should have offered to buy the tiki masks SSCM didn't seem to have any emotional attachment to them... dang. coulda, whoulda, shoulda...

elicia