Post #548029 by GeneriKB on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 11:55 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

My trip wasn't nearly as successful as I had hoped. We started in San Francisco for a few days...I managed to have a great night at the Smuggler's Cove (those guys are SO knowledgeable about their rums and cachacas!), but the next day I had some bad Filipino food and got crazy bad food poisoning. I really couldn't handle food or drink for a few days after that :(

When we got to LA we had one drink at Trader Vics...it was fun, but honestly I'm kinda sad that most of the Trader Vic's have lost their old world charm. I miss my old Palmer House Hilton Trader Vics in Chicago!!!!

And then our very last night we hit up Tiki Ti's, which made up for the entire trip. The Ray's Mistake and Space Pilot were heavenly. I did find it interesting that some of the tiki drinks I've known and loved from Trader Vics (like the Scorpion) was completely different at Tiki Ti...but they were all tasty nonetheless!

Side story: In LA my wife and I went to a live taping of Let's Make A Deal, and they picked me to play! I won over $5300 worth of game room / man cave stuff (pool table, plasma tv, jukebox, keggerator, etc)...no tiki bar though! lol