– gold agricole rum, that is, and it’s flowing freely at the new Luau restaurant in Beverly Hills (bar pictured above). Owner Andrew Hewitt had fond childhood memories of the legendary original Luau (1953-78), which inspired him to resurrect the joint for a new generation. Aimed squarely at the glitterati — as was the previous [...]
Stanislav Vadrna is a busy man, but the Beachbum won’t hold that against him. Not when all the work Stan does is geared toward making the world a better place to drink cocktails. When he isn’t studying Eastern bartending philosophy in Tokyo, teaching mixology in Berlin and Belfast, or consulting for bar owners in New [...]
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The Bum is often asked why he doesn’t open his own bar. Given the amount of hard work that takes, he’ll stick to drinking in other people’s, thank you very much. Especially with people like Gromit and Morten on the bar scene. They’ve just opened a Tiki tavern in Copenhagen which they’ve named after our [...]
A new Ice Age is dawning in Australia: Kevin Clark, who works in Melbourne’s Tiki Lounge and Bar, has resurrected the lost art of ice garnish with a drink he calls the Cone Of Silence. It’s served with an ice cone molded around the straw, an old Tiki bar mixologist’s trick that hasn’t been done [...]
If the Bum hadn’t just pawned his hat, he’d tip it to New Orleans mixologist Chris Hannah, whose Tiki-inspired drinks and exotic syrups are turning Arnaud’s restaurant bar, the French 75, into the French Polynesian 75. That’s Chris above. The drink on the right is an original tropical concoction of his called the Ohanna (a [...]