Is Smuggler's Cove the new Gold Standard? - Tiki Drinks and Food

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 6:24 PM Very nicely put, John-O. It had tried to voice my concern a while back that now that craft coctailians are going way back to even pre-Don The Beachcomber times to make ingredients true to their original state of inception, the two bulwarks of Polynesian cocktail mixology, the Tiki Ti and the Mai Kai, who carried the tradition of undiluted Tiki mixology into the 20th Century, may fall behind the new breed of cocktail alchemists. And that while ironically the folks who were instrumental to the new cocktailian movement, Jeff Berry and Ted Haigh, took their inspiration and pointers from the Tiki Ti for years and then flew with it. But ultimately I believe there is enough room for all kinds, and there is no reason to say yay or nay to one or the other: I like both, Smuggler's Cove AND Tiki Ti, for their individual reasons (mentioned in the two posts above)....and La Descarga and La Cana and ...and... Also, pragmatically speaking, the Mai Kai is on the other side of the country, the Cove in another city, and the Tiki Ti 8 minutes from my house. :)

Very nicely put, John-O. It had tried to voice my concern a while back that now that craft coctailians are going way back to even pre-Don The Beachcomber times to make ingredients true to their original state of inception, the two bulwarks of Polynesian cocktail mixology, the Tiki Ti and the Mai Kai, who carried the tradition of undiluted Tiki mixology into the 20th Century, may fall behind the new breed of cocktail alchemists.
And that while ironically the folks who were instrumental to the new cocktailian movement, Jeff Berry and Ted Haigh, took their inspiration and pointers from the Tiki Ti for years and then flew with it.

But ultimately I believe there is enough room for all kinds, and there is no reason to say yay or nay to one or the other:
I like both, Smuggler's Cove AND Tiki Ti, for their individual reasons (mentioned in the two posts above)....and La Descarga and La Cana and ...and...

Also, pragmatically speaking, the Mai Kai is on the other side of the country, the Cove in another city, and the Tiki Ti 8 minutes from my house. :)

Post #570784 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 6:24 PM