Post #28962 by woofmutt on Wed, Apr 2, 2003 12:25 AM

Maxton and I must be on some sort of NorthwesTiki vibe...Just an hour ago I was walking home (through a rain storm) pondering the possibility of making a Seattleville crawl out of what passes for Tiki bars here...The evening would start in the sort of cool interior but completely lame atmosphere of Tiki Bob's where we would enjoy (read: force down) some sort of stupid drink with a nudge-nudge-wink-wink name followed by Jello shots, then the gang would move the 13 or so blocks north to the nuevo-Polynesian-dive environment of the Lava Lounge where we would drink BEER because that's all they serve (but they do have Martin Denny, Frank, and Deano on the CD juke box), and finally we'd make a night of it one block west at Ohana which has a really swell thatch covered bar and low lighting but incredibly lousy drinks, sometimes lousy staff, and reggae on the sound system (though reggae is far better than "Walking on Sunshine" which was blasting in Tiki Bob's last time I braved the place). After we're properly soused we could stagger a couple blocks east and light a candle outside the Westin Hotel, last location of the Seattle Trader Vic's (now a sushi joint). A better Jet City Crawl would begin on an I-5 south on ramp and happen 2 or 3 or 4 hours later in Portland.