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Old menu cover, original Trader Vic's, Oakland. Trader Vic's is a restaurant and tiki bar chain headquartered in Emeryville, California, United States.Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 in San Francisco – October 11, 1984 in Hillsborough, California) founded a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his nickname, "Trader Vic".
In about 1965 the first Trader Vic's restaurant in Texas was launched at the Shamrock where it did business until after 1985. [20] The hotel remained popular for Houston social events such as debutante balls , barbecues and business meetings, continuing operations as the Shamrock Hilton until 1986, by which time even its local reputation had ...
Trader Vic’s travels have led to long-lasting relationships between the Trader Vic’s brand and indigenous cultures across the world, though the company is especially committed to the people of ...
Tilman Joseph Fertitta was born in Galveston, Texas, [13] on June 25, 1957. [14] He is of Sicilian descent. [15] His father, Vic, owned a seafood restaurant on Galveston Island, and after school, Tilman would peel shrimp in his father's restaurant.
Always the showman, Trader Vic included a hibachi grill when presenting a pu pu platter at the table. [10] Others say that the idea could have come from Donn Beach. [13] No one can agree, but everyone else appeared to have copied the idea. By the twenty-first century, the tiki bars and the flaming pu pu platter had become a dying art.
The PB2Y, or PB2Y Gremlin, is a tiki drink created by Victor Bergeron as part of a series of "gremlin" drinks for his Trader Vic's restaurants during World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ingredients
Trader Vic is largely credited with inventing the Scorpion Bowl, which after the Mai Tai and the Fog Cutter was Vic's third most famous cocktail. [5] As called for in his Bartender's Guide from 1947, his Scorpion Punch was meant for twelve people with listed ingredients of: 1 1/2 bottles of Puerto Rican rum, 2 oz gin, 2 oz brandy, 1 pt fresh lemon juice, 1/2 pt fresh orange juice, 1/2 pt ...
RKF recruited national retailers including Ben Sherman, QuikSilver, Marciano, Trader Vic's, among many others. [10] The mall has continued to grow to over 170 shops, restaurants and entertainment venues that serve approximately 80,000 people each day and nearly 30 million visitors per year. [14]