Post #589962 by TikiTomD on Thu, May 19, 2011 5:17 PM

On 2011-02-16 12:34, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:
Cross-pollinating this link that Psycho Tiki D posted in another thread:

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/16/3405316/coral-reef-reflections.html#

Great article in the Sacramento Bee filled with recollections of the Coral Reef. It also contains the Mai Tai recipe that Tangaroa-Ru asked for at the beginning of this thread, as well as several other food & drink recipes:

Recipe: Coral Reef Mai Tai
George Chew, former bar manager of the Coral Reef, said this was the restaurant's most popular drink. Its price in the mid-1970s was $2.65.

INGREDIENTS

1 ounce light rum
2 ounces sweet and sour mix
1 ounce lemon sour (see note above)
1 ounce orgeat syrup
1 ounce orange curacao
Squeeze of lime
Crushed ice
1 ounce 97 proof Appleton Jamaican dark rum
1 canned pineapple ring
1 maraschino cherry

INSTRUCTIONS

In a double old-fashioned glass, build drink by layering light rum, sweet and sour mix, lemon sour, orgeat syrup, curacao and lime juice. Stir. Pack with crushed ice. Float Appleton dark rum on top. Place pineapple ring on top with cherry in center of ring.

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:up: unfortunately the key to making the "lemon sour" doesn't seem to be included in the article.

There was a note in a cross-referenced article from The Sacramento Bee regarding the undefined "lemon sour" employed in the Coral Reef's drink recipes... "Note: The recipes for the Mai Tai, Fog Cutter and Blue Hawaii each call for 1 ounce of lemon sour. This ingredient is no longer available. Chew suggests using 1 ounce of regular, unsweetened lemon juice as a substitute. Each recipe makes one cocktail."

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/16/3405198/bar-served-up-potent-sweet-and.html