Smuggler’s Cove
A modern day tiki kingdom, Smuggler's Cove has all the trappings of Polynesian paradise: a babbling brook, cocktails in skulls and rum, lots of rum. Martin Cate's tropical paradise is…
- story: punch_intern2
Cane & Table
Located on what just might become New Orleans’ first tiki Main Street, Cane & Table is the kind of Hemingway-approved bar that feels simultaneously English colonial and exotic. The menu focuses…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
The Saint
Tucked away in the Lower Garden District, The Saint is an underground paradise for brooding twenty-somethings and those looking for the kind of night where one is either drinking to…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
The Tonga Room
Descending into the Tonga Room, housed in the lower level of the stately Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill, feels simultaneously like entering another world and time period. From the dangerously…
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Tonga Hut
You can’t talk about the LA bar scene without talking about tiki, and you can’t talk about tiki without talking about the Tonga Hut, which remains the oldest LA tiki…
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Sonny’s Hideaway
Call it gentrification or hipsterfication or even welcome change. However you parse it, Highland Park is one of L.A.’s rapidly morphing neighborhoods, with new shops, bars and restaurants popping up…
- story: punch_intern2
Three Dots and a Dash
One of the country’s premiere modern tiki bars, Three Dots and a Dash is an underground tropical oasis with a fine-tuned focus on all things rum. The bar has become…
- story: punch_intern2
Wei Lei (Taste Buds)
Equal-parts brandy and baijiu make the base of thise tiki-style serve.
- story: Mary Anne Porto
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Peek Inside London’s Most Whimsical Drinkware Factory
Behind a lime green door in Northeast London, Bespoke Barware churns out an array of oddball made-to-order drinkware, from Margaret Thatcher mugs to shark head punchbowls. Whitney Adams and Izy…
- story: Whitney Adams
- photos: Izy Hossack
A Modern Proto-Tiki Mecca in New Orleans
Welcome to "About a Bar," a column that explores North America's most notable bars and cocktail programs. Today: Cane & Table in New Orleans.
- story: Emma Janzen
- illustration: Natalie K. Nelson
