Pupu Platter Article in Saveur - Tiki Drinks and Food

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, May 12, 2008 2:40 AM Wow, didn't know Saveur was so Tiki-friendly! Nice interview with the bum, and that Trader Vic's B.H. fan article is great, though it brings home again how much it had been de-tikified over the years: "...The Trader Vic's experience is different now from what it once was (hamachi tartare and crab cakes with wasabi rémoulade appear on the menu these days; the tikis are gone from the Beverly Hills dining room); we're different now..." And this: "...The windowless exterior walls were textured with stylized Polynesian (Maori?) patterns and guarded on one side by a quartet of 12- or 14-foot dark brown wood tikis set on pedestals (a fifth one stood by the entrance on the other side, off the parking lot);.." A QUARTET of 12-14 foot high Tikis !!? I had heard about these before, but to this day, I have never seen a photograph. Damn!

Wow, didn't know Saveur was so Tiki-friendly! Nice interview with the bum, and that Trader Vic's B.H. fan article is great, though it brings home again how much it had been de-tikified over the years:

"...The Trader Vic's experience is different now from what it once was (hamachi tartare and crab cakes with wasabi rémoulade appear on the menu these days; the tikis are gone from the Beverly Hills dining room); we're different now..."

And this:

"...The windowless exterior walls were textured with stylized Polynesian (Maori?) patterns and guarded on one side by a quartet of 12- or 14-foot dark brown wood tikis set on pedestals (a fifth one stood by the entrance on the other side, off the parking lot);.."

A QUARTET of 12-14 foot high Tikis !!? I had heard about these before, but to this day, I have never seen a photograph. Damn!

Post #379673 by bigbrotiki on Mon, May 12, 2008 2:40 AM