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Tiki Night at Teardrop Lounge, Jan 17th, Portland, OR

Hey there folks out in internet la-la land,
hope the holidays, and switchover to the new year have been easy enough on your bank accounts and liver, because lo and behold we’ve got another Tiki Night at Teardrop Lounge coming up!
Seeing as the weather’s a bit “brisk” in the Pacific Northwest, this round is featuring two [...]

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Oct. 21st, The Final Tiki Tuesday at Teardrop!

Well folks, hopefully you’re hearing it here first.
Tuesday, October 21st will be the Final Tiki Tuesday at Teardrop Lounge.
With the summer sun dwindling mighty fast, the time has come to let it set on the monthly fun.  But this is no time to mourn!  No time to weep into your rum barrels!  If it’s going [...]

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September Tiki Tuesday Menu

This is going to be a good one. Drop on in and check it out at Teardrop Lounge in Downtown Portland. Drinks from this menu will be served 4pm to closing!

Tiki Cocktails
September 16th, 2008
Amuse bouche ~ The Mai Tai 3000, by Jamie Boudreau
Coconut Kallaloo
Lime, coconut, and rum, the trinity of tropical tastes!
Ginger Grant
A Beachbum [...]

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MxMo 19th Century, The Japanese Cocktail

Many thanks to this Mixology Monday’s hosts at Bibulo.us, sending us back in time (and into the library) for some 19th Century Cocktails!
As read in Imbibe! by David Wondrich, in 1860, diplomats from Japan made a few weeks stay in New York City.  While there, they stayed at the Metropolitan hotel, about a block [...]

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Test Pilot

When celebrating Don the Beachcomber’s legacy, or his recent birthday (Feb. 22d), what better way to remember the man than through his signature 1-2 punch of Bitters and Pastis (Herbsaint preferred, Pernod in a pinch), and the drink I think really brings it out best, the Test Pilot.
The bitters/pastis combination adds a lot of complexity [...]

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A whirlwind drinking tour of Portland, pt. 2

And so we continue from the previous post.
Thursday night found us warbling at The Alibi, a long-standing tiki bar, now featuring Karaoke. If you want authentic Tiki Bar, and can look past the sloppy drinks, Karaoke, and lottery machines, this is the place. How bad are the drinks? Try a Sailor’s Tattoo, [...]

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