Suggestions for what tiki drink I could order at local bar with great tender/great selection? - Tiki Drinks and Food

T TorchGuy Member Renton, WA Joined: Apr 24, 2008 Posts: 242	T TorchGuy Posted posted on Sun, Oct 24, 2010 11:04 PM Reason I ask for specifics is: The board is filled with great recipes, some easy and some not-so... I can find twenty different recipes for some drinks. I'm looking for suggestions for things I can order here, and they can definitely include some unusual rums, but I'm not looking for debates on which recipe is the best or the original, as fun as they are to read. This tender is fully willing to experiment. I've seen him make the same base drink three or four times as he and a customer bounce ideas off each other, until the drink is 'right'. A customer on my last visit suggested mixing a few ingredients, Murray liked the idea and tried it, and both agreed it needed improvement, so he remade it with four different brands of vermouth until it came together. I admit I'm fairly new to the tiki drink world, so my best experiences have been at a TV's (my "home" TV's is Dinah's Garden, Palo Alto, though I live in Seattle - boyfriend lives in San Jose) and, without exception, everything I've ordered there has been good. Dark, deep, rich, sometimes spicy, complex, and potent. Anyone can serve a Long Island Iced Tea and have potency and lots of ingredients, but only there have I had tall, potent cocktails that pull me in head first with their depth and subtlety. Might not be the best tiki cocktails out there, but I'm smitten by 'em. I'd like to think Murray can and will recreate some of these for me, and I'll thus have a place to find good Poly cocktails in Seattle. I'm not looking for ONLY Trader Vic's recipes, mind. I'll happily take anything TCers offer. I'll leave the written recipes with Murray in case someone here wants to visit and order them and, chances are, after trying them he can elaborate and make variants. I'll also add a little review once I've tried them with him. Here's Murray, taken on my first visit; my last visit was my 5th or 6th. Not sure what drink that is, but it had a whole egg in it and was very good. Barely visible behind him is some of the bar's wall-o-liquor. ~ TorchGuy P.S. Most tenders have a speed rail down front, containing the stuff they use constantly. Murray's speed rail holds 75 bottles. Like I said, the stuff he uses constantly; the more unusual stuff fills the big wall behind the bar, stacked two- and sometimes three-deep. [ Edited by: TorchGuy 2010-10-24 23:17 ]

Reason I ask for specifics is: The board is filled with great recipes, some easy and some not-so... I can find twenty different recipes for some drinks. I'm looking for suggestions for things I can order here, and they can definitely include some unusual rums, but I'm not looking for debates on which recipe is the best or the original, as fun as they are to read.

This tender is fully willing to experiment. I've seen him make the same base drink three or four times as he and a customer bounce ideas off each other, until the drink is 'right'. A customer on my last visit suggested mixing a few ingredients, Murray liked the idea and tried it, and both agreed it needed improvement, so he remade it with four different brands of vermouth until it came together.

I admit I'm fairly new to the tiki drink world, so my best experiences have been at a TV's (my "home" TV's is Dinah's Garden, Palo Alto, though I live in Seattle - boyfriend lives in San Jose) and, without exception, everything I've ordered there has been good. Dark, deep, rich, sometimes spicy, complex, and potent. Anyone can serve a Long Island Iced Tea and have potency and lots of ingredients, but only there have I had tall, potent cocktails that pull me in head first with their depth and subtlety. Might not be the best tiki cocktails out there, but I'm smitten by 'em. I'd like to think Murray can and will recreate some of these for me, and I'll thus have a place to find good Poly cocktails in Seattle.

I'm not looking for ONLY Trader Vic's recipes, mind. I'll happily take anything TCers offer. I'll leave the written recipes with Murray in case someone here wants to visit and order them and, chances are, after trying them he can elaborate and make variants. I'll also add a little review once I've tried them with him.

Here's Murray, taken on my first visit; my last visit was my 5th or 6th. Not sure what drink that is, but it had a whole egg in it and was very good. Barely visible behind him is some of the bar's wall-o-liquor.

~ TorchGuy

P.S. Most tenders have a speed rail down front, containing the stuff they use constantly. Murray's speed rail holds 75 bottles. Like I said, the stuff he uses constantly; the more unusual stuff fills the big wall behind the bar, stacked two- and sometimes three-deep.

[ Edited by: TorchGuy 2010-10-24 23:17 ]

Post #561418 by TorchGuy on Sun, Oct 24, 2010 11:04 PM