Trader Vic's Bellevue WA Closes Doors! - General Tiki

T TabooDan Tiki Socialite Coast of BC now in Crowsnest, AB., Canada Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 691	T TabooDan Posted posted on Tue, Aug 26, 2008 3:59 PM Damn it....Damn it!! Trader Vic's Bellevue closed. I cant believe it!! Well, I guess I can due to the fact that it wasn't very busy a lot of the times we went but it still totally sucks!! The evening dinner time did seem to be quite busy but I guess not busy enough. This Trader Vic's was awesome!! The majority of the people that worked there were really nice and professional, the food was excellent and the drinks were most of the time pretty good. The waiter from Boston was our favorite!! Depending on the bartender, sometimes they were perfect!! Funny how some people say the food or service was a problem. We never had a problem any of the times we went! We did, however, notice less people going and also the less and less of the little Accoutrements that you received with your orders or the lack of 'stuff' for sale in the gift cabinet. No Menehune sticks the last month when we were here. Just bamboo stakes through the fruit. There were also no Coconut Mugs, Fogcutters and a few of the others. I did however have a Gun Club Punch in the Shell glass. Now that's one thing I can't understand. The stuff that is for sale was always running out and the mark up on that stuff has gotta be good. It's just gravy on top of your restaurant sales and they just didn't keep items in stock. It's interesting to me how in that first post from the paper, it talks to these people who are pretty big into Trader Vic's but then haven't been there in 16-18 months! It was only open 25 or so! Good on that guy and his party for going to "church" there! That's some support!! I wish we could have gone that much! Oh, and I'm not starting anything with those "celebrities" they talked to by the way. Just an observation. Every time we came down from Canada we would try to make sure we stopped in. There was such a cool atmosphere in the lounge. Great seats, lot's to look at and talk about and it also felt that it had a lot of history in it. In the dining part of the restaurant, there were lots of photos of the Trader back in the day and there were some great Tikis scattered throughout. It is sad to see it's now gone. There will probably be quite a bit of talk on here about this so I guess I will sit back for now. I didn't realize there wasn't really a post in the locations thread like Dogbytes said back in Jan. so I'll have to get some pictures in that thread!!! Oh, and just throwing this out there, but what does this mean about the 'possible' Trader Vic's that was supposed to open in Portland?? Might be hard getting backers now that this one shut down. LONG LIVE TRADER VIC'S!!!! TabooDan [ Edited by: TabooDan 2008-08-26 16:03 ]

Damn it....Damn it!! Trader Vic's Bellevue closed. I cant believe it!!
Well, I guess I can due to the fact that it wasn't very busy a lot of the times we went but it still totally sucks!! The evening dinner time did seem to be quite busy but I guess not busy enough.

This Trader Vic's was awesome!! The majority of the people that worked there were really nice and professional, the food was excellent and the drinks were most of the time pretty good. The waiter from Boston was our favorite!! Depending on the bartender, sometimes they were perfect!! Funny how some people say the food or service was a problem. We never had a problem any of the times we went!

We did, however, notice less people going and also the less and less of the little Accoutrements that you received with your orders or the lack of 'stuff' for sale in the gift cabinet. No Menehune sticks the last month when we were here. Just bamboo stakes through the fruit. There were also no Coconut Mugs, Fogcutters and a few of the others. I did however have a Gun Club Punch in the Shell glass.
Now that's one thing I can't understand. The stuff that is for sale was always running out and the mark up on that stuff has gotta be good. It's just gravy on top of your restaurant sales and they just didn't keep items in stock.

It's interesting to me how in that first post from the paper, it talks to these people who are pretty big into Trader Vic's but then haven't been there in 16-18 months! It was only open 25 or so! Good on that guy and his party for going to "church" there! That's some support!! I wish we could have gone that much!

Oh, and I'm not starting anything with those "celebrities" they talked to by the way. Just an observation.

Every time we came down from Canada we would try to make sure we stopped in. There was such a cool atmosphere in the lounge. Great seats, lot's to look at and talk about and it also felt that it had a lot of history in it. In the dining part of the restaurant, there were lots of photos of the Trader back in the day and there were some great Tikis scattered throughout.

It is sad to see it's now gone. There will probably be quite a bit of talk on here about this so I guess I will sit back for now.

I didn't realize there wasn't really a post in the locations thread like Dogbytes said back in Jan. so I'll have to get some pictures in that thread!!!

Oh, and just throwing this out there, but what does this mean about the 'possible' Trader Vic's that was supposed to open in Portland?? Might be hard getting backers now that this one shut down.

LONG LIVE TRADER VIC'S!!!!

TabooDan

[ Edited by: TabooDan 2008-08-26 16:03 ]

Post #404252 by TabooDan on Tue, Aug 26, 2008 3:59 PM