In 1959, Fort Lauderdale’s Mai-Kai restaurant won a national cocktail competition with the Derby Daiquiri, which went on to become the official drink of the Gulfstream racetrack’s $100,000 Florida Derby. A special glass was created for the “$100,000 Drink,” with a golden stem in the shape of a jockey. The Mai-Kai once stocked hundreds of [...]
Normally when we get a swelled head, it’s from too many Zombies. But some recent articles are having the same effect on our noggin. In an interview at Saveur.com, we’re referred to as “Professor Tiki” and allowed to pontificate at length (perhaps because we were lucky enough to have Justine Sterling as our interviewer: “As [...]
The Bum has been 86’d from many a bar, but all that’s about to change. Because before you can get tossed out of a bar, you have to get into the bar. And now, thanks to tavern owners like Rufus Terrill, proprietor of O’Terrill’s Irish Pub in Atlanta, riff-raff like us can get the bum’s [...]
Pictured above: photographer Sven Kirsten and diorama artist Bosko Hrnjak shooting the cover of Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log, way back in April of 1998. We’d like to thank our liver for holding out long enough to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our first book. It’s hard to believe the Grog Log was published a decade [...]
Barcelona has three Tiki bars. To those of us here in the New World — where we’re lucky if a major metropolitan area has even one — this fact will induce fits of envy. It shouldn’t, say Barcelona residents Mr. Ivan and Lady Eve. They insist that Spain still has a long way to go [...]