The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai

Valentines meets Lunar New Year at Dr.

This delicious Mai Tai riff comes from Sam Ross of Attaboy in New York City.

We had a great lunch at the Pacific Catch location in Dublin, including a really great Poke bowl.

Most spirits aficionados are aware that many rums contain added sugar.

Had an impromptu visit to Dr.

Had to give this new glass from Trader Vic’s Atlanta a spin, using Trader Vic’s Royal Amber Rum just like they use at the restaurant and Mai Tai Bar.

Locals told us that Trader Vic’s Atlanta makes all Mai Tais using the Mai Tai Concentrate syrup unless you order by calling for a “1944 Mai Tai” so we put this theory to the test by ordering multiple Mai Tais over the couple nights we were in town.

Two highlights from our visits to Trader Vic’s Atlanta were a couple of frozen drinks that are designed for very easy drinking.

A highlight of our Inuhele weekend was a visit to the last restaurant that opened during Trader Vic’s lifetime.

(Nearly) Everything You Know about Rum in a Mai Tai is Wrong While the Mai Tai was born with a long-aged pot-still Jamaica rum, over decades the Trader used rums from various islands and styles to produce Mai Tais for different purposes.

Longtime Trader Vic’s customers are familiar with the peanut butter spread that’s often provided with crackers as an appetizer in the Trader Vic’s restaurants.

We’re in Georgia for the Inuhele weekender and had some time on Wednesday to Lyft over to Decatur to check out the supposedly “world famous” S.O.S.

Well, this isn’t exactly an exhaustive quest to find the best version of the 2020s viral cocktail sensation, but Mrs.

With extended visits to many Halloween and Holiday themed bars, travel to Europe, and family visits, it has been a long time since we visited downtown San Jose for some rum tasting from the Rum Asylum rum list at Dr.

Over the holidays I received several credible reports that Trader Vic’s Emeryville was making Mai Tais using Trader Vic’s Mai Tai Concentrate rather than from scratch ingredients.

Longtime fans of Trader Vic’s Emeryville remember their small parking lot used to operate for many years on a valet system.

There are still tickets available for Inuhele: Atlanta’s tiki weekend, January 23-25.

We knocked out a few more Christmas cocktail pop-ups and here’s the summary.

Each year we celebrate the best Mai Tais that we had the pleasure of tasting in the last twelve months.

As with 2024 we had so many great Mai Tais that many of them would have been deep into the top 10 in past years and this year couldn’t crack the top 10.