Post #45711 by donhonyc on Sat, Aug 2, 2003 3:02 AM

Aloha-

Some NYC tiki reportage here on the 'Kahiki' fest at Marion's. For those of you outside NYC, Marion's is a very classy 'retro-esque' bar/restaurant located on the Bowery here in the East Village in Manhattan. Marion's specializes in different kinds of martinis, and knowing their reputation as kind of a retro place it makes total sense that they would devote the month of August to transforming their establishment into a 'Tiki' bar. That's why their particular interpretation of Tiki was such a huge dissapointment. To make a long story short they basically threw some paper palm trees here and there, and hung some thatched stuff up. All of the waitresses are also dressed in Hawaiian style dresses, but other than that no big difference from what the place ususally looks like which IS cool anyway. The place for this Tiki fest basically looked like they were throwing a tropical themed birthday party for someone. It was that lame.

I didn't see what kind of food they were offering, but you would have thought that they would have a pretty good menu of vintage drinks. But alas my high expections for Marion's 'Kahiki' fest were shattered once I took a look at the 'tiki' drinks being offered. They only had four, yes four, 'tiki' drinks offered and they were all frozen. One was a pina colada, another was a dacquiri, and I forgot the other two beause they were in fact totally forgettable. Nothing else really to report here. Coughlamecough. I decided not to order one of the Tiki drinks and just had a martini instead. Oh well...

Mahalo :drink:

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2003-08-02 10:20 ]