Tiki Match Collection:

Mai Tai Restaurant (Rum Runner bar inside)
Excelsior, Minnesota

Here's a fun story Dusty Cajun added to the Tikiroom.com website:


"The Mai Tai was a wonderful big restaurant, on the water, with very Polynesian/Hawaiian architecture and a South Pacific cuisine. We docked Sunshine and went in for a grand dinner. My very favorite dish was called the “Flaming Hawaiian Feast”. It was a wok dish with lobster, crab, shrimp, beef, pork, chicken, pineapple, celery, and other veggies and fruits that I don’t remember. They poured brandy over it and served it flaming. It was offered as a dinner for two but it was easily enough for three of us. They also offered the very best scorpion I ever drank, but you had to drink it when you got there so you would be sober enough to drive when you left. "

Based on comments, it was established in the mid 70s

  

from Dusty Cajun on tikiroom.com 

from Dusty Cajun on tikiroom.com


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