Adding guava to a classic mai tai cocktail will create the perfect balance of tropical fruit to the classic tiki drink. This ...

Recreating the original mai tai is no easy feat. Due to the complicated history of one key ingredient, the cocktail won't ...

The Mai Tai can be traced to 1944, to the original Trader Vic’s in Oakland, California. The bar’s namesake purveyor, Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron, created the drink to showcase the now ...

2. Nu Mai Tai. This mai tai variant was created at Miami bar Esotico by Daniele Dalla Pola, and I include it second on this list because it incorporates a lot of the basic mai tai variant upgrades ...

The Mai Tai can be traced to 1944, to the original Trader Vic’s in Oakland, California. The bar’s namesake purveyor, Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron, created the drink to showcase the now ...

That’s because the Mai Tai was created to highlight the rum, not bury it — and it’s why the rum used is so important. Appleton Estate 17 Year Old Legend will be available at select retailers ...

The real “Mai Tai Day” is August 30th!” it reads, even posting the actual proclamation from the City of Oakland, where Bergeron’s first bar — originally called Hinky Dink’s — opened ...

But the class perfectly changed my perspective on what a mai tai is — and what it can be. “The Trader Vic mai tai is a lime punch with rum,” Quinn told me later.