Tiki Chess Contest - General Tiki

K Kailuageoff Member Honolulu Lounge,Lewes, DE Joined: Mar 27, 2002 Posts: 1506	K Kailuageoff Posted posted on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 3:18 PM I posted a link to this elsewhere, but didn't get the tiki chess connection until now. Is someone doing LSD with their Fogcutters? This whole deal sounds like tiki de-evolution. KG Fri, Dec. 12, 2003 North Port, Fla., Restaurant to Offer Taste of the Tropics By Garry Overbey, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 11--NORTH PORT, Fla. - Want a roasted pig delivered to your door? Robert McKiernan promises that and much more, once his new restaurant, Hula-La, opens. McKiernan and his partner, Christopher Napurano, are striving for "a theme park atmosphere" with a tropical flavor, rather than just another eatery. "What we're offering is a new dining experience," McKiernan said. Once renovations are complete, the restaurant, at 9071 S. Tamiami Trail near River Road, will feature seven waterfalls, 40 tiki lamps, A Giant Chessboard with nearly 5-foot-high pieces, a bandstand and dancing area, and a 9-foot mini locomotive circling the restaurant. Oh, and there's also food. Napurano, a Culinary Institute of America graduate who's worked in several top-rated restaurants and hotels in New England, said he's blended Polynesian cooking styles with his own techniques to add "a little bit of fusion" to the menu. Among them, Hula-La will offer Napurano's version of Bento barbecue, a marinating and roasting method used in Hawaii. Aside from what the owners say is the cheapest breakfast in town -- pulled pork hash, toast and an egg for 72 cents -- Hula-La will offer a half-pound of pulled pork on a specialty garlic roll for $4.25. The menu also includes stuffed quahaug clams, Li Hina Mui duckling marinated in Polynesian spices, Nantucket diver scallops, as well as comfort foods like meat loaf and beer-battered fish and chips. But the centerpiece of the restaurant is its steam cooker, used to cook whole pigs, along with prime rib, baby back ribs, chicken and turkey. "The steam is the secret to that machine," Napurano said. "It makes it tender like you've never had before." The steam system also reduces the fat content, making the meals more "heart healthy" than pork-eaters are used to, Napurano said. "Nobody in the country got a pig roast like this," said inventor Al Karlowitsch, a German-born North Port resident who sold the only two existing cookers and the patent rights to McKiernan. The difference between this and other cookers, Karlowitsch added, can be found in the flavor, which can be enjoyed without condiments. "You don't need ketchup, no salt," he said. "It's all marinated. The meat is so moist." Hula-La is holding a contest to name the cooker. Since they want everything to be just right when they open, McKiernan said they won't open until they're ready. But he said he'll offer free food the week leading up to New Year's if it doesn't open by Christmas. [ Edited by: Kailuageoff on 2004-03-17 15:19 ]

I posted a link to this elsewhere, but didn't get the tiki chess connection until now. Is someone doing LSD with their Fogcutters? This whole deal sounds like tiki de-evolution.
KG

Fri, Dec. 12, 2003

North Port, Fla., Restaurant to Offer Taste of the Tropics

By Garry Overbey, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 11--NORTH PORT, Fla. - Want a roasted pig delivered to your door?

Robert McKiernan promises that and much more, once his new restaurant, Hula-La, opens.

McKiernan and his partner, Christopher Napurano, are striving for "a theme park atmosphere" with a tropical flavor, rather than just another eatery.

"What we're offering is a new dining experience," McKiernan said.

Once renovations are complete, the restaurant, at 9071 S. Tamiami Trail near River Road, will feature seven waterfalls, 40 tiki lamps, A Giant Chessboard with nearly 5-foot-high pieces, a bandstand and dancing area, and a 9-foot mini locomotive circling the restaurant.

Oh, and there's also food.

Napurano, a Culinary Institute of America graduate who's worked in several top-rated restaurants and hotels in New England, said he's blended Polynesian cooking styles with his own techniques to add "a little bit of fusion" to the menu. Among them, Hula-La will offer Napurano's version of Bento barbecue, a marinating and roasting method used in Hawaii.

Aside from what the owners say is the cheapest breakfast in town -- pulled pork hash, toast and an egg for 72 cents -- Hula-La will offer a half-pound of pulled pork on a specialty garlic roll for $4.25. The menu also includes stuffed quahaug clams, Li Hina Mui duckling marinated in Polynesian spices, Nantucket diver scallops, as well as comfort foods like meat loaf and beer-battered fish and chips.

But the centerpiece of the restaurant is its steam cooker, used to cook whole pigs, along with prime rib, baby back ribs, chicken and turkey.

"The steam is the secret to that machine," Napurano said. "It makes it tender like you've never had before."

The steam system also reduces the fat content, making the meals more "heart healthy" than pork-eaters are used to, Napurano said.

"Nobody in the country got a pig roast like this," said inventor Al Karlowitsch, a German-born North Port resident who sold the only two existing cookers and the patent rights to McKiernan.

The difference between this and other cookers, Karlowitsch added, can be found in the flavor, which can be enjoyed without condiments.

"You don't need ketchup, no salt," he said. "It's all marinated. The meat is so moist."

Hula-La is holding a contest to name the cooker.

Since they want everything to be just right when they open, McKiernan said they won't open until they're ready. But he said he'll offer free food the week leading up to New Year's if it doesn't open by Christmas.

[ Edited by: Kailuageoff on 2004-03-17 15:19 ]

Post #81368 by Kailuageoff on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 3:18 PM