Trader Vic's Bev Hills closing THIS TUESDAY???!!! . . . - General Tiki

P PremEx Tiki Socialite Houston, Texas Joined: Aug 23, 2006 Posts: 335	P PremEx Posted posted on Wed, May 2, 2007 1:48 PM On 2007-05-02 12:03, Tom Slick wrote:For me, it's the fact that the actual building that housed Trader Vic's has the History since 1955...Not some last minute moving attitude "Lets put a nautical float here" type setup...MY support for Trader Vic's in general is deceased. I was all about the mid century design, and the fact that Sinatra might have sat in the same chair that I did. Its the ambience, and the history for me. It's not about the pupu platter(which is great) served in another makeshift TV, but it was the pupu platter being served in the original location where it started. Maybe its psychological for me, But removing Trader Vic's 1955 to be replaced by a Trader Vic's lounge(-history -full menu -decor) and it is now become Generic Vic's 2.0 Agree. Exactly how I feel. And to even suggest that one of the most classic Trader Vic's restaurants and bars in the world has been "relocated" to the pool where they've probably moved some of the artifacts and put in a couple more potted planters...really adds insult to injury, IMHO. Whatever ends up by the pool will not, in any way, be Trader Vic's Beverly Hills. And even if they have the same pupus and great bartenders making great traditional Trader Vic's drinks...no matter how much I would want to partake in that "better something than nothing" experience...I'm really hesitant to contribute even one dime toward the coffers of the owners of the Beverly Hilton, after the shameless action they just pulled...and then furthering the insult by issuing that totally B.S. and almost "backdated" Press Release. I'm an adult. If after a good battle to save Trader Vic's, they decided to still close it...I could live with that. But if a historically important, still popular, and much loved restaurant like the Beverly Hills Trader Vic's was to die...they should have at the very least given it a proper burial and send-off. But to just slit its throat in the dark of the night and then place its head on a pole out by the pool and expect the public to say, "Oh...well...that's not so bad"...is just a shame. There's a right way and a wrong way to do these kinds of things. And IMHO, the Beverly Hilton and all involved did it the totally wrong chicken-shit weasel kind of way. :(

*On 2007-05-02 12:03, Tom Slick wrote:*For me, it's the fact that the actual building that housed Trader Vic's has the History since 1955...Not some last minute moving attitude "Lets put a nautical float here" type setup...MY support for Trader Vic's in general is deceased. I was all about the mid century design, and the fact that Sinatra might have sat in the same chair that I did. Its the ambience, and the history for me. It's not about the pupu platter(which is great) served in another makeshift TV, but it was the pupu platter being served in the original location where it started. Maybe its psychological for me, But removing Trader Vic's 1955 to be replaced by a Trader Vic's lounge(-history -full menu -decor) and it is now become Generic Vic's 2.0

Agree. Exactly how I feel. And to even suggest that one of the most classic Trader Vic's restaurants and bars in the world has been "relocated" to the pool where they've probably moved some of the artifacts and put in a couple more potted planters...really adds insult to injury, IMHO. Whatever ends up by the pool will not, in any way, be Trader Vic's Beverly Hills.

And even if they have the same pupus and great bartenders making great traditional Trader Vic's drinks...no matter how much I would want to partake in that "better something than nothing" experience...I'm really hesitant to contribute even one dime toward the coffers of the owners of the Beverly Hilton, after the shameless action they just pulled...and then furthering the insult by issuing that totally B.S. and almost "backdated" Press Release.

I'm an adult. If after a good battle to save Trader Vic's, they decided to still close it...I could live with that. But if a historically important, still popular, and much loved restaurant like the Beverly Hills Trader Vic's was to die...they should have at the very least given it a proper burial and send-off. But to just slit its throat in the dark of the night and then place its head on a pole out by the pool and expect the public to say, "Oh...well...that's not so bad"...is just a shame.

There's a right way and a wrong way to do these kinds of things. And IMHO, the Beverly Hilton and all involved did it the totally wrong chicken-shit weasel kind of way.

Post #303606 by PremEx on Wed, May 2, 2007 1:48 PM