Someone Should Buy Poco Wine Room and Turn It Into a Tiki Bar
Seriously!
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Aug 08, 2011 at 11:40AM
12 Comments
For far too long now, Seattleites have slouched damply on our barstools made of repurposed wood, peering listlessly into our beers and our dainty craft cocktails and our bordeaux-style blends.
Can you see us? We are not wearing goofy smiles. We are not glugging Diki Dikis and Mai Tais and Zombies and Major Baileys. We are not dressed in ridiculous button-down shirts decorated with lurid orchids or coconuts or hula dancers balanced on surfboards.
We have no tiki.
As Andrew Bohrer recently pointed out in this article, Portland has tiki. San Francisco has tiki. New York City has tiki. Where is our tiki? Who will bring us the tiki?
News came this morning that Poco Wine Room is up for sale. And you know what I’m thinking? I’m thinking TIKI. I can easily see the two-tiered, intimate Poco converted into an island paradise. A little thatch, some paper umbrellas, maybe a parrot perched on a shoulder or two and we’re there.
Come on, some talented Seattle bartender who also has business sense, open a tiki bar!
Tags: Capitol Hill, Tiki, Seattle Drinking Scene
Trader Vics filled this void for years. Now, I see retro-tiki-fab having a home waiting for it in Seattle’s Chinatown.
Isn’t there already Hula Hula and Ohana?
I guess I was thinking of a tiki cocktail bar with craft tiki cocktails, along the lines of Smuggler’s Cove or PKNY.
Have you never been to the Lava Lounge in Belltown? Tiki as fuck.
Tiki is tacky and has no place on Capitol Hill. Keep the kitsch for the Eastsiders.
Yes! I’ve been to the Lava Lounge. Tiki cocktail lounge is what I’m talking about.
I think by the comments, it shows why tiki isn’t in Seattle. People just don’t freaking get it. Real tiki drinks are some of the most complex, well balanced, and food friendly cocktails around. And the tackiness is just a fun byproduct. Get your noses out of the air and loosen up Capitol Hill.
PGT – Capitol Hill is the perfect place for a Tiki bar. Really good cocktails, but trendy as all get out. After the trend runs out, something else can move in. Just like always.
I LOVE tiki bars, cocktails, style, kitsch, you name it, and would wholeheartedly support a tiki bar in Seattle. (I like Lava Lounge, but it’s way too divey to be considered a tiki bar. They don’t really do the fru-fru cocktails I associate with Tiki. I need umbrellas in my drink.) Great idea! If you build it, I will come…
I wholeheartedly second what Oh show us the way to the next tiki bar says! Classic mai tais, pina coladas, and some blended Hemingway daiquiris, please!
P.S. Tiki cocktails are not a trend – they’re a way of life!
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