My name is Vance Klinke and I have a confession to make …
Month: February 2020
Lost Spirits Distillery – By Tom Hemmen
The last day of our recent visit to Los Angeles, we purchased tickets for a distillery tour we’d become aware of while researching things to do in the area online. At $40 per ticket it was not inexpensive, and its Yelp reviews, while mostly positive, featured some pretty poor ones as well – however, it looked intriguing, and potentially like a lot of fun, so we took the plunge …
Tiki Bar Review #58 Damon’s Steak House – Glendale CA
There’s other things you can do at a tiki bar besides just drink …
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Tiki Blogging #10 – The Search for The Ultimate Mai Tai (Kevin Crossman)
Where can I get a good Mai Tai?
This is actually a harder question to answer than you think. For many bars, a Mai Tai is their token tropical drink that has rum, pineapple juice and grenadine. Then there are tiki bars that know how to make a true 1944 Trader Vic’s Mai Tai, but the results range from great, to good, to passable, to “is this even a Mai Tai?”. I’ve been into tiki for a long time and had my share of Mai Tais which all taste drastically different. It’s only been more recently that I can pin down exactly what a Mai Tai should taste like and I’ve got to thank Kevin Crossman for that! Kevin’s website, The Search for The Ultimate Mai Tai, is a one stop resource that ranks and rates all the places that Kevin has had a Mai Tai. Check out The Search for The Ultimate Mai Tai and you will learn where you can find …
The Good, The Bad, and The Ultimate Mai Tai!
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