Tahiti, Barcelona, Spain (restaurant)

Name:Tahiti
Type:restaurant
Street:C/ Joaquín Costa, 39
City:Barcelona
State:
Zip:08001
country:Spain
Phone:
Status:operational

Description:
The newest Spanish Tiki Bar.
A different spin on traditional Spanish Tiki
Carefully selected drink menu.

Tahiti´s business card.

Includes their signature cocktail recipe. So you can try it before paying them a visit. Ain´t it cool?

[ Edited by: Mister Naufrago 2010-05-02 03:06 ]

Cool, definitely going to visit this summer!

Great to hear that NEW places are keeping up the tradition of Spanish Polynesian pop!
In this case it is also the tradition of Trader Vic :) :

I think it is better that new Tiki reincarnations use classy vintage art than trying something new and failing. The "transmission tradition" has always been part of Tiki culture.

Wonder if they got that from Mimi's website...
The bum used it in his new tome.

Found these photos online... nice!

Forget bamboo draft beers, tropical masks and exotic palm trees. Barcelona has just opened a tiki bar with no fuming drinks of dubious content and colourful parasols to focus on original recipes pioneers in tropical cocktails brought to the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Back then, people like Don the Beachcomber or Trader Vic would take clients to exotic places through the drinks they prepared. Those cocktails are the ones the Tahiti is serving, a bar which has taken a bit of the tiki culture with formulas with rum, natural juices and spices in a space with an American dinner air, decorated with right photographs of hula girls and a jukebox that doesn't stop playing music. Sober lines contrast with carefully chosen vintage furniture and Hawaiian ceramics.

The menu includes traditional cocktails divided into base drinks on the one hand (gin, vodka, whisky, rum, vermouth, tequila, brandy, cava or alcohol free) and tiki cocktails on the other. Among them are Mai Tai (Jamaican rum, Martinica rum, lime juice, cucaçao, sugar syrup and almond syrup), Navy Grog (Jamaica rum, Demerara rum, lime juice, grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, passion fruit syrup, brown sugar and Angostura bitters) or Dr. Funk (white rum, Pernod, lime juice, grenadine, and soda).

The person responsible for the Tahiti bar is cocktailman Javier Cejas, one of the partners of the Negroni. His background and experience guarantee quality cocktails. Drop by Tahiti and find out yourself! No smoking allowed.

http://tradermagnus.blogspot.com

[ Edited by: Trader Magnus 2010-05-11 14:03 ]

[ Edited by: Trader Magnus 2010-05-11 14:04 ]

cool! website? more pictures please! Bastardo Saffrin, we need you here!

Here is a link to Bastardo Saffrin's blog with additional info and nice photos:

http://bastardosaffrin.blogspot.com/2010/03/de-benidorm-tahiti.html

There is no official website...

http://tradermagnus.blogspot.com

[ Edited by: Trader Magnus 2010-05-12 08:14 ]

Definitely the best "tiki bar" in Barcelona, in terms of drink quality and atmosphere/music. Some tiki mugs but no other tiki stuff. Approximately 15 tiki drinks, I tried Kava Bowl, Navy Grog, Zombie, Mai Tai and Nui Nui - all of them great! I also visited Kahala and Aloha again, nice decor but terrible drinks and music.

http://tradermagnus.blogspot.com

[ Edited by: Trader Magnus 2010-09-15 11:06 ]

On 2010-09-15 11:05, Trader Magnus wrote:
Definitely the best "tiki bar" in Barcelona, in terms of drink quality and atmosphere/music. Some tiki mugs but no other tiki stuff. Approximately 15 tiki drinks, I tried Kava Bowl, Navy Grog, Zombie, Mai Tai and Nui Nui - all of them great! I also visited Kahala and Aloha again, nice decor but terrible drinks and music.

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http://tradermagnus.blogspot.com

[ Edited by: Trader Magnus 2010-09-15 11:06 ]

Five drinks in one night?
Caramba...

I actually went there twice... :)

Closed Spring/Summer of this year (2016).