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Tiki bars are not a retro fad. They are a valid movement in America’s pop art history, says Martin Cate, owner of Smuggler’s Cove tiki bar in San Francisco. To this tiki historian and rum aficionado, the original tiki bar movement of the 1950s spoke to something very specific in the American psyche, and its modern resurgence does too.
You can do better than a $12 cup of Blue Moon at the ballpark. The concessions at MLB stadiums are getting more creative, diverse and kind of strange, and we’re not just talking about the food.
Most bars are set up for drinkers to cement themselves to the stools and settle in for night-long boozing sessions. Not so at Union Larder, an unusual, Spanish-style wine bar in San Francisco that’s designed for speed.
The bartenders’ handshake—the drink that local bartenders order to signify to their cohorts that they work in the industry—is different in every city. The handshake could even vary from bar to bar. Playboy talked to bartenders across the country to find out what the insider, spirit-of-choice is for their town.