All Posts Tagged With: "Mai Tai"

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World-Class Mai Tai

No cocktail inspires more heated discussion about its origins, or allows a more perfect (albeit momentary) escape, than the Mai Tai.
Aficionados agree that Trader Vic invented this world-class cocktail, and we know that in 1953, Vic brought the Mai Tai to Honolulu when he came with the Matson Steamship Lines to create drinks for the [...]

August-September 2009 | Jo McGarry | 0 comments | Continued
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HILuxury Chi

Wherever the Mai Tai originated (and there’s plenty of controversy on the subject), there’s no doubt that from the early 1950s, the royal Hawaiian Hotel was the place to be seen drinking one.
More than 50 years later, as the royal Hawaiian has been given a face lift, it seems like the perfect time to create [...]

April-May 2009 | Jo McGarry | 0 comments | Continued