Post #352048 by jbarrow on Sun, Dec 30, 2007 6:49 PM

Aloha, first time poster here.

My wife and I are visiting Kauai during the winter holidays and are staying in Kapa'a. This is my first time. She has been here before, in 2002. I found this board after searching for a bit of information about Tahiti Nui. We were trying to find lunch in Hanalei and, being put off by a 30 minute wait for a fish taco in an establishment overrun with misbehaving children and NO adult beverage service, we trudged down the muddy road to find Tahiti Nui, open, not crowded and without a tremendous wait for service.

I guess you could say our expectations were low or non-existent, but we had a nice time, first sampling a local lager and then ordering a Mai Tai to accompany our pizza after being reminded that such drinks exist when a group of wahine barged in with the chant "We're here to drink Mai Tai's". Yeah, good idea, we'll have a couple of those! They weren't bad. They were definitely not watered down, though with some practice I am sure I could do better. Pat was a great barkeep and his dog Pinto was fun to play with.

My last true Tiki experince was a few years ago when a co-worker had a tiki party and gave me a set of tiki glasses as a Christmas gift. Before that were my highschool years and the time spent at the Aloha in Rochester NY, downing Zombies, Mai Tai's and Aloha bowls and listening to the Willams Hawaiian Trio. That place closed a long time ago and the only souvenier I have is a pack of cigarette matches.

This has been a very helpful thread. We will be visiting Duke's Canoe Club, Kieko's Paradise and the International Surfing Museum before we leave.

Aloha.

James