Post #7607 by thejab on Wed, Sep 4, 2002 1:19 PM

A friend of mine went there a couple years or so ago and wrote this review for the Tiki Bar Review Pages. JT, I hope it's OK to show this without your permission:

"Of Havana, Steph writes they still have bamboo wall coverings and sort of a nautical theme everywhere but, with the exception of outside the front door, there is nary a tiki to be found inside. Outside the front door are two enormous tikis, about 7 feet tall. The kitchen still uses those huge cauldren type ovens that Trad'r Joes currently uses. They have the original menus there but they have added the words "Ron Cubano" (Cuban Rum) on all the pictures of barrels. They also still had some of the original mugs with the hula girls on them. Although I understand why, the greatest tragedy is that the bartenders do not know a thing about tropical drinks. The closest we got to one was a Pina Colada from a mix. We were staying in a private home in Havana that, oddly enough, had email. So my husband emailed home and got the recipies from the Grog Log which we handed over to the Bartenders the next day. Who knows if they will be put to use."

Steph knows about good tropical drinks, too, because she and her husband have served me some excellent ones at their house in the past.