Cocktails – Mai-Kai: History and Mystery Book

Remembering the Surfboard Bar

May 18, 2018May 18, 2018 swanky 0 Comments

The original bar at the Mai-Kai was not the Molokai Bar, but the Surfboard Bar. It was made from real,

May 7, 2018 swanky 2 Comments hukilau, molokai bar

Reserve your place for my presentation at the Hukilau HERE. We all know today’s Molokai Bar with it’s nautical theme

“The $100,000 drink” managed a bit of advertisement amazingness by having the Mai-Kai mentioned in the ads by Rums of

This short lived idea to reward the regulars and promote camaraderie was another crazy brain-child of the Mai-Kai managers and

January 25, 2018 swanky 0 Comments

A couple on their honeymoon in 1959 came to the Mai-Kai. They revisited a few years ago and gave the

Mariano Licudine didn’t get the coverage I wanted in the book. I just was too pressed for time. I hope

We have been eagerly awaiting the opening of Cane Rhum Bar & Caribbean Kitchen in our second home of Charleston,

A nice article on Tales of the Cocktail about drinking clubs at Tiki establishments. There is a chapter in my

For those who attended my presentation on the Mai-Kai and Don the Beachcomber at Tiki Oasis 2016, here is the

Join me at the oldest, biggest, and grandest Tiki event in the world, Tiki Oasis, for a special Mai-Kai history