After adding this to the Trader Vic's menu in 1944, ... Anybody who says I didn't create this drink is a real stinker." [The Tader Vic's menu from the Plaza, please click here to zoom in big.

The original mai tai was created at the dawn of the tiki movement. Its Georgia home still thrives and you need to go visit the restaurant from where it hails.

Trader Vic’s — the OG tiki chain — wants to make it happen. Skip to main content. Maps. Dining Out; ... We have drinks and menu items that people have seen their whole lives, ...

In 1944, Victor Jules Bergeron first mixed up a mai tai at his bar, Trader Vic's, while trying to add something new to his drink menu. Bergeron claims to have served the drink to a Tahitian friend ...

Even with its sense of having been preserved in amber --or maybe mango --Trader Vic's can be fun. But it works best not so much for dinner but as a place to get lively drinks, and the kind of ...

The drink that would go on to become one of the world’s most popular cocktails, inspire countless imitators, and riffs, was created by Vic “The Trader” Bergeron on August 30th, 1944. The ...

Rosen suspects the bar with tropical drinks will be popular and might make up as much as 40% of the business but he is committed to bringing back the full classic Trader’s menu, live music, tiki ...