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Hi tiki enthusiasts (Courtney waves to self and four other people who remember the ’90s),
Looks like Trader Vic’s is coming back to Portland. You know Trader Vic’s, the place in Oakland where Vic Bergeron invented the Mai Tai (or was that Don the Beachcomber?) and served all those umbrella-laden scorpion bowls to all those post-WWII families! Like most people I know, I wasn’t here to see Portland’s Trader Vic’s in the Benson Hotel (where El Gaucho currently lives), which was there from 1959-1996, but this picture postcard makes it look beautiful, right?

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Well—long rumored, then totally true, but now officially official with a press release—Portland’s sees the return of Trader Vic’s in mid-June (just in time for Portland’s Tiki Kon). It’s setting up shop at 1203 NW Glisan in the Pearl. According to the PR, “The restaurant’s Polynesian décor evokes visions of paradise. The new Portland location will showcase tribal masks, tiki carvings, tapa cloth and woven grass wall coverings as well as other indigenous art and artifacts collected by the Bergeron family over the past 75 years.” Granted it won’t have the grandeur of the waterfront Emeryville, California location being in our landlocked Pearl District, but I, for one, won’t puu-puu this good news (AURGH, I can’t help myself).

Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!

8 replies on “Trader Vic’s Returns to Portland”

  1. If the Cacophony Society is reading this: Crash the opening of Trader Vics dressed as British Werewolves w/ Impeccable Hair.

    Bring Pina Coladas.

  3. Don the Beachcomber may or may not have invented the Mai Tai, but it IS the best place to watch a sunset in Hawaii.

  6. Check their website. There is a Trader Vic’s in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. THEY CANNOT SELL ALCOHOL THERE. Trader Vic’s without alcohol. Think strip clubs without bare breasts. Or thighs. Or any bare skin at all. You’re shuddering, I see.

    I’m pretty sure the one that recently opened in Almaty, Kazakhstan sells booze, though. If anyone stops by there, please let me know.

    http://www.tradervics.com/locations/locati…

  8. Huh ?
    COURTNEY have you been living in a compound in Pakistan the last 5 years?
    All that crap was moved to Thatch Tiki Bar 2733 NE Broadway Portland including the Cacophony.

    You folks are so out of touch.

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