The first two restaurants closed after less than three years, and The Hurricane Club recently tweaked its menu and focus so that it's now a steakhouse with a Polynesian theme. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Filed under:.
Pocket Flipboard Email. The first dish consisted of an assortment of items, such as fried rice, bits of pineapple, pork and tomato in a sweet-sour sauce and asparagus. The asparagus was cut diagonally into wafer thin slices and cooked briefly in the Oriental style. This fare was highly palatable. Claiborne tried the Doctor Funk of Tahiti, but he did not comment on whether or not he enjoyed the drink. A typical evening out meant going to the Paris Theater, across 58th Street, to see an art movie and then inside the hotel for a pu pu platter.
It would be years before I realized that most films didn't have subtitles, or that this restaurant served entrees. I can attest that Trader Vic's was the ideal setting for a first date between two sophisticated teenagers. The restaurant hummed along in the basement of The Plaza through the '70s and '80s, losing some of its luster with each passing year.
Wasn't there a time when its dim nooks and rum-drenched Molotov cocktails made deep-fried island tidbits seem delightful? Or was I ever that innocent? Does anyone know or care that Trader Vic's still exists, duskily dim, in the netherworld of The Plaza?
Stopping by on evening for a seance with passed memories, it was a shock to discover that the house had no gardenias to float in our Scorpion Donald Trump closed the restaurant in when he bought the hotel, calling it "tacky," but it had 25 years under its grass skirt before that day.
Trader Vic's served pu pu platters and mai tais to generations of New Yorkers delighted to dream of the South Pacific and all its naked, willing charms. And in a post about the tiki bar resurgence of , an Eater commenter shared this fond memory of the bar : I used to go there in the '70s with a friend for after work cocktails. She preferred their Scorpion which had a real gardenia floating in it. I think it was called a Scorpion, either way, the flower part is real.
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We had to wait a little bit… But it was worth the wait! You feel like you're in Italy inside the restaurant. The pizza was delicious!!!! I arranged a birthday party for my girlfriend who was turning 22 this month at The Hill. We were promised a table without bottle requirements or a…. While there has been some dispute over the years as to who invented this drink Donn Beach of Donn the Beachcomber claimed authorship as well , lately it's been pretty well resolved that Bergeron came up with the formula to the most popular version of the cocktail.
Here it is, as printed in a reprinting of his bartender's guide. Add remaining ingredients and enough shaved ice to fill glass. Hand shake. Decorate with spent lime shell, fresh mint, and a fruit stick. They are critical, as are the two kinds of rum; 2 oz. For the rock candy syrup, simple syrup will do.
As to the fruit stick, it's safe to skip that. Don't even know what it might be. Previous Recipes of the Lost City. Posted by Brooks of Sheffield at AM. Something doesn't sound right about that This is a good recipe for the Mai Tai -- so many bartenders think it's just a lot of rums and passion-fruit, guava, and other juices, all glommed together.
Very hard to get a decent Mai Tai in NY. Which is a sad thing really.
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