Post #361643 by donhonyc on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 9:51 PM

I gave up on TV's Mai Tai mix a long time ago. It tastes absolutely nothing like the ones they make at their locations, so their was no reason for me to buy it. The stuff they use at their bars and restaurants is packaged in bottles that have the same design as the retail stuff. I think it's called 'Mai Tai Concentrate', but they don't sell it to the public. I could see that they have an issue maybe with keeping the draw for their customers by not selling it retail, but for those of us that don't live anywhere near one of their locations, it would be nice to have the same mix and have the same Mai Tais at home for those, like myself and many others, that rarely get to go to a TV's if at all. Their Passion Fruit, Orgeat, and Rock Candy syrups have mostly worked out pretty well for me when making drinks at home. The Tonga Zombie from Grog Log made with the Passion Fruit syrup is actually very good. I thought I got close to the taste of a TV Mai Tai at home a few weeks ago, and I started a thread about it, but the more I make those Mai Tais that I THOUGHT tasted like the TV location Mai Tais, the more they don't taste like it. It's a Holy Grail type of situation that I'm still on the hunt for.

My advice to you is to just order a bunch of the syrups from TV and mix your own stuff. At the end of the day their retail Mai Tai mix, quite frankly, sucks in a big way.