Post #59037 by thejab on Fri, Nov 7, 2003 11:58 PM

On 2003-11-07 14:39, tikibars wrote:
At Random is in TRT, and your appraisal concurs with my own. I took TheJab there after Exotica a few months back. I think that although it isn't Tiki, their Mai Tai and Tiki Love Bowl will satisfy most TC members, and the atmosphere is indeed as swank as they come. Bring your night-vision glasses...

At Random is an amazing bar with mixologists who know who to make (and take the time to make) great cocktails. The decor is great beyond words. Many thanks to JT for taking me there and putting it in his book. I would rejoice if such a bar was in my area.

To get back to the topic, those tikis are butt-ugly!

Don't worry if you don't like the new crop of tiki bars. They'll all be gone in a few years when the tiki trend becomes passe. But the original tiki bars will still be going strong if most of the folks on Tiki Central have anything to do about it. It's more than a trend with us so we care about the decor, the atmosphere, and the drinks. Maybe we could lighten up but I guess we're pretty passionate about it. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion.

And it wasn't Buffet or Marley or Belafonte, it was Hemingway way back in the 1930s, and Desi Arnaz in the 1940s, with Tito Puente and others right behind him, that really spurned the public's interest in Caribbean culture and travel.