A Disappointing Visit to Mai-Kai - Tiki Drinks and Food

J JOHN-O Tiki Socialite Dogtown, USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Posts: 2721	J JOHN-O Posted posted on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 9:45 AM On 2010-03-12 09:19, freddiefreelance wrote: Ooooh! Great Idea! Big Bro, you could open a Tiki Bar with your own drink recipes, decorate it with your own Poly Pop artifact collection using your Photographer's eye for detail, making sure to hire only the best Mixologists and using the best Liquors! You'd be able to stay in SoCal all the time, being close to your Son & Girlfriend, and not having to travel to Bavaria to do camera work on Grade Z Direct-to-Video movies anymore! Everybody Wins! :D How about "Sven's South Seas Hideaway" or "Book of Tiki - The Bar" ?? :) To put this back on track, it sounds like the Mai Kai needs a better bar manager. Bartenders who are still in training shouldn't be mixing drinks for paying customers until they've mastered their craft (unless drinks mixed by them are cheaper). It doesn't sound like the drinks were just slightly off but rather all over the place. The turn-over of bartenders there must be pretty high. Am I being unforgiving here? Maybe. I just can't help compare this to the quality and consistency of drinks that I've had at the DTBC in Sunset Beach. I've enjoyed cocktails there by 4 different bartenders and they were all identically superb. Marie has done a fantastic job, I think the Tropicals there are even better now than Tiki-Ti (and that's saying a lot). Anyway THANK YOU for the inside scoop, this is the type of intel that I come to TC for. I may be in Miami in the next several months so it looks like a 30-mile side trip is in order. [ Edited by: JOHN-O 2010-03-12 12:10 ]

On 2010-03-12 09:19, freddiefreelance wrote:

Ooooh! Great Idea! Big Bro, you could open a Tiki Bar with your own drink recipes, decorate it with your own Poly Pop artifact collection using your Photographer's eye for detail, making sure to hire only the best Mixologists and using the best Liquors! You'd be able to stay in SoCal all the time, being close to your Son & Girlfriend, and not having to travel to Bavaria to do camera work on Grade Z Direct-to-Video movies anymore! Everybody Wins! :D

How about "Sven's South Seas Hideaway" or "Book of Tiki - The Bar" ?? :)

To put this back on track, it sounds like the Mai Kai needs a better bar manager. Bartenders who are still in training shouldn't be mixing drinks for paying customers until they've mastered their craft (unless drinks mixed by them are cheaper). It doesn't sound like the drinks were just slightly off but rather all over the place. The turn-over of bartenders there must be pretty high.

Am I being unforgiving here? Maybe. I just can't help compare this to the quality and consistency of drinks that I've had at the DTBC in Sunset Beach. I've enjoyed cocktails there by 4 different bartenders and they were all identically superb. Marie has done a fantastic job, I think the Tropicals there are even better now than Tiki-Ti (and that's saying a lot).

Anyway THANK YOU for the inside scoop, this is the type of intel that I come to TC for. I may be in Miami in the next several months so it looks like a 30-mile side trip is in order.

[ Edited by: JOHN-O 2010-03-12 12:10 ]

Post #516796 by JOHN-O on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 9:45 AM