Post #668964 by Hale Tiki on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 4:11 AM

Agreed, ATP, but it seems that they've put their own twist on things, which is nice.

bigbro, your summation of drinking culture was quite amusing. Another facet of that is the proliferation of the idea that for men, cocktails = something mixed with Coke, and for women, cocktails = sugary, sweet, brightly colored or chocolate, and served in a martini glass. Even at the Whiskey Bar that I go to. As in somewhere that has over 100 types of whiskey, and whose owner has taken the time and expense to become a whiskey sommelier, they serve these types of cocktails because it's a smart business decision. The "Woo" Girl Martini, which is bright pink, and references the call of the drunken college girl, for example.

Fortunately, this BBQ joint is an example of the "craft cocktail" culture still gaining momentum, as bars continue to open and focus on taste, and quality. In Pittsburgh, a city known for how serious it takes its beer drinking (and by serious, it means that most of the population holds drinking beer near and dear), we've got a growing number of "craft cocktail" bars, from joints that specialize in pre-prohibition, to civil war cider houses, to an actual speakeasy that reopened after being lost for 80 years.

Although I'm no authority on the matter, if things continue as they are with bar/cocktail culture, I wouldn't be surprised if Poly Pop came back around to the mainstream. As we all know there's already a solid base of younger bar owners who respect tiki, and operate successful establishments: Smuggler's & FI, Hale Pele, PKNY, Lani Kai, and the like, which respect not only the cocktails, but the decor, and culture as a whole.

Wait, what were we talking about again?

EDIT: The Lani Kai apparently closed in September. Crap.

[ Edited by: Hale Tiki 2013-02-27 06:42 ]