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Chino’s Tiki (Mug) Tuesdays

Bring in your tacky tiki mug. Get a free drink.

Allecia Vermillion
Author: Allecia Vermillion
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’Fess up…do you own one of these? Photo via Coconut Wireless/Flickr.

Are you in possession of a wildly tacky (or even moderately tacky) tiki mug? Over at new Pike/Pine spot Chino’s, bar manager Veronika Groth spends every Tuesday celebrating these pseudo-Polynesian vessels. Bring in a tiki mug for the restaurant’s collection on Tuesdays and Groth will serve up one free tiki drink (except zombies) in that mug.

You can even keep your mug at Chino’s, with your name on it, for future (non-free) tiki drink imbibement. Owners Walter and Mari Lee are planning to set up some sort of cabinet or shelving situation to display all these fine pieces of barware, says Groth.

The former Poppy bar mistress has been busy resurrecting the golden era of tiki drinks since Chino’s opened earlier this month. While her rum and fresh juice-centric concoctions are far removed from the lame incarnations of recent decades, there’s no harm in enjoying her handiwork in a delightfully tacky mug.




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Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion has spent a decade at Seattle Met, arriving as food and drink editor, and expanding her role over the years. She served as the magazine’s editor in chief until moving into a newly created executive editor role in 2021. She spearheads Seattle Met’s food and drink coverage and oversees home design content. Allecia’s writing has earned her multiple journalism awards and two James Beard Award nominations over the years. A native of Portland, Oregon, Allecia began her writing life as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs before making a grateful return to the Pacific Northwest. She has an English degree from Washington University (no, the one in St. Louis) and a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.