Lion’s Fang
This riff on the Lion’s Tail doubles down on the tiki aspect of the drink, adding rum, falernum and a splash of absinthe.
- story: Chloe Frechette
ZZ’s Pineapple Cocktail
At ZZ's Clam Bar in New York City, this cocktail is served in a vintage, brass pineapple, mounded with cobbled ice and garnished with a drift of aromatic chamomile powder…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Dylan + Jeni
Mystery Gimlet
Garret Richard's gin-based tiki drink is blended in a Hamilton Beach stand-up drink mixture, which better aerates the cocktail.
- story: Lizzie Munro
Painkiller
With coconut cream, pineapple and orange juice and a Virgin Islands birthplace sometime in the 1970s, this rum-based cocktail is a tropical drink to the core.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Keep Your Dreams A Burnin’
New Orleans bartender Kirk Estopinal's tikified take on the Sherry Cobbler.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
The Shark
Cream, cane syrup and Frangelico create a decadent backdrop for blue Curaçao and overproof rum in this throwback drink.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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Queen’s Park Swizzle
Created in Trinidad, this Demerara rum-based, bitters-topped drink gets its name from a famous cricket field in the country’s capital, Port of Spain.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Mai Tai
The credit for this iconic 1930s drink—whose name is a nod to the Tahitian, “Maita’i,” which means “good”—is usually given to venerable Los Angeles tiki bar Trader Vic’s.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Dylan + Jeni