On 2012-02-29 21:53, TikiPug wrote:
I was in L.A. last weekend for 2 days. I had a friend visiting me in Vegas and she had never been to Hollywood, so we did a little road trip.

Thursday night we started at Tonga Hut where Marie came up to make us some awesome drinks. We then moved on to Tiki Ti and drank there for 3 hours. Top notch as always. Even tried some new drinks (to us) by spinning the wheel and wasn't disappointed.

Saturday evening we started at Trader Sam's and thoroughly enjoyed my first visit there and will be back for more. From there we moved on to DTB and then finished the night at Purple Orchid where we also had excellent drinks.

So my review of Donn's - Weakest drinks of the 5 places, but they weren't bad, just not consistent or up to par with the name Don's. After the ridiculous classic rock band started, we couldn't leave fast enough. I fully understand the need to fill the bar and pay the bills, but this was awful, and I like classic rock. The singer acted like he was David Lee Roth circa 1979 and they were so loud, you would have thought they were in the back, big room. The drinks were much better when Marie was there.

With so many choices in the L.A./Orange area, every tiki bar would do well to put out a quality cocktail. If not, time to go elsewhere. If Frankei's Tiki Room (here in Vegas) started making shitty cocktails, there is no other tiki bar here, so we'd have to tuff it out.

On 2012-02-29 21:53, TikiPug wrote:
I fully understand the need to fill the bar and pay the bills, but this was awful, and I like classic rock. The singer acted like he was David Lee Roth circa 1979 and they were so loud, you would have thought they were in the back, big room.

At this point I don't really care if I will sound snobby saying this here, but all you Johnny-come-latelies with your consumerist, bourgeois attitudes of entitlement really rub me wrong.

On 2012-02-29 21:44, tiki1963 wrote:
a tiki restaurant is just that. a place to sell food. if they do it well, they thrive. they don't, they die.
i think it's very important Don's continues to do well.

On 2012-02-29 19:56, bigbrotiki wrote:
And one more time, do not come back with the excuse that you "care" about these places and want them to succeed, this is NOT the way to go about it. I am not declaring a "ban" on all critical attitudes about food and service, but there is the smart and caring way to go about it, and there is the loudmouth "I want my money's worth" way to do it.

On 2012-02-29 23:34, aquarj wrote:
I really enjoyed my last visit to DtB's - food, drink, atmosphere, service, everything. We were a large family group and had a long dinner that ended with the kids roaming around the place. Usually in normal restaurants I'm antsy to go once the check comes, but at Don's it's entirely different. On our way out, just a warm happy relaxed feeling.

But I guess those are not "problems" per the title of this thread. Pardon the derail.

-Randy

And Pug, that sounds like a nice tour, you sure can knock them back, respect!

On 2012-02-29 22:40, thePorpoise wrote:

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At this point I don't really care if I will sound snobby saying this here, but all you Johnny-come-latelies with your consumerist, bourgeois attitudes of entitlement really rub me wrong.

Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Well, you can say whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America.

Gentlemen!
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