Post #22820 by tastysp on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 3:38 PM

thanks JT for putting things into perspective.
At times Otto's can be lounge-y and at others a loud and raucous rock bar. The same could probably be said of any neighborhood bar, tiki or not. The one thing I learned in opening this bar is: no matter how much you try to shape and mold your bar and it's clientelle, it will develop it's own identity due to it's customers because it's the customers that make the bar what it is. I can control it somewhat but at the end you just have to let it develop on it's own. I try to give the proper respect to the past with a new edge.

As far as the traditional sense of running a tiki bar goes, there's one thing that never goes out of style and that's taking care of your customers and having a well crafted drink. We serve traditional drinks but we have a few new concoctions as well. The one thing that all tiki bars neo or classic must respect is crafting of their drinks.