This article is part of the Globetrotter’s FT Guide for New York
Nightnore Friday evening in the eastern village of New York City. In the 1970s, the neighborhood was the epicenter of Punk. Now, however, it is known for its urban sophistication of Sangfroid and urban. They are all cute; Probably very delightful. But within the lost paradise, a waiter is illuminating a cocktail on fire for a caruver table that ogling. The lights ignite purple and white. Music shortens and is replaced by a voice sound of screaming wolves and noisy chains. The waiters scream. Patrons scream. Cold this is not.
Paradise Lost (see below) is the latest addition to New York’s New Tiki Bars – and one of the best. As for the grass subcultures, Tiki has had a wild journey. The first Tiki bar, Don the Beachcomber, opened in 1933 in California by Ernest Gantt, a man who later renamed Donn Beach. He created Archetypal Tiki: A kitsch paste with kitsch of exotic influences where images of Polynesian gods and half -worn women in Leis completed melting food and intricate cocktails, often based on Rum, served with maximum garn designed to look like Moai Statue. The trend culminated in the post -war years, in part as an antidote to Eisenhower’s elevated administration. But by the 1990s, the initial awareness that Tiki was, in fact, a species of cultural appropriation based on colonialism, racism and sexism, helped kill Vibe.
However, recently, bars such as Paradise Lost have tried to redefine Tiki, running its troubled past as it maintains entertainment. As it turns out, there are many ways to move up. Not everyone is eased. And now, when the real world is so chaotic, there can be no better time to save in a lush and powerful fantasy.
Sunny Harbor club
Street 372 Fulton, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Good to: Hard drinks, singing Shanties
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Not so good for: Those who receive the sea
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Fyi: Run down to Gage & Tollner after a drink for one of the best steaks in Brooklyn. Sunken Harbor Club also has a place in Bermuda
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Cocktail prices: $ 18 – $ 32 (shattered skull for two people, $ 45; King Pinky for four, 100 dollars)
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Opening times: Sunday, Thursday, 5-11 in the afternoon; Friday-Saturday 5 afternoon midnight
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A flight over one of Brooklyn’s best steakhouses, Gage & Tolner, his co -owner St John Frizell has carved a cabin of a pirate ship. A flowing view is viewed by a portal; Fish shines, in the middle of swimming, mounted on dark wood walls. Sunnane Harbor is the adult tiki grass. Of course, the lights are faint, but vibe skews very marine. In fact, the space is slightly bad to better imitate a keeling booth.
Complex cocktails are inspired by medium -century food and drink writer Charles H Baker and arranged by strength, from shadows (“light drinking cocktails for a pleasant moon swimming”) up to the abyss (manicually strong and includes Chopped chopped skull, a combination of rums, pomegranates, vanilla and pineapple that serves two). For Tiki enthusiasts there is also a 36 -page challenging passport membership.
Lost
100 2nd Annsenue, New York, NY 10003
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Good to: First up to the fifth dates
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Not so good for: Serious conversation
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Fyi: In the heart of the Eastern village, Paradise Lost is surrounded by excellent restaurants like Foul Witch and Spice Brothers
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Cocktail prices: $ 16-28, with large-formed cocktails ranging up to $ 130
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Opening times: Every day, 5 afternoon – 2am in the morning
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“I wanted to maintain the idea that you are joining the mystical forces, but without adopting the Polynesian gods,” says co -owner Kavé Pourzanjani of Paradise Lost, who opened in 2023. “I settled in demonology.” The effect is more Dog world than Charles Manson. Pourzanjani combines elements of B-Movie horror, Ed Roth’s drawing culture of the 1980s and DC Comics. The ceiling is a messy fish network with ocean detritus: license plates and model plane.
The menu, meanwhile, is almost as long as a Milton poem, and filled with illustrations of Zombies. Drinks are detailed conclusions, rated by the Kafka (strength), such as Tarman, which includes three rums, phares, cinnamon and grenadine, and on Saturday of witches (rums, brandy, jeans, tropical fluids, citrus and Falernum), Ordering from which causes lighting lights and lupine roar.
Arte roller xanadu
262 Starr Brooklyn, 11237
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Good to: Skate
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Not so good for: Manhattanites
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Fyi: The lining includes not only skating sessions but concerts and dance holidays as well
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Cocktail prices: $ 15 (Entry from $ 11, skate Rentals $ 7)
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Opening times: Wednesday – Friday, 6 afternoon – midnight; Saturday, noon – 2am; Sunday, noon – midnight
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Deep in Bushwick, Xanadu 16,000 square meters is, as anyone can be imagined, LOT. It is a hipster cube with a skating rink, level seats, a DJ, a state of the art sound system and a disco in the bathroom. Only the carpet, a neon swoops, is visual overload. The endless circumstances of the clients are enabled by Tiki Drinks by the poet-banker Keri Marinda Smith, whose most recent collection is called Anchor. Smith’s drinks remember the tropical classics: Ladybug Daiquiri, Cherry Baby (Amaretto, Cognac, Blackcurrant and Cherry) and skaterade, a riff tequila-prior to Gatorade with Spirulina Blue. But be careful, skating defenders have a border with two drinks.
Robert’s Tiki
263 Moores Street, Brookly, 11206
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Good to: Deep adventurers of Brooklyn, hungry
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Not so good for: Purists Tiki
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Fyi: For good meeting, Blanca approved by Michelin, part of Roberta’s family, is drawn after Pizzeria
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Cocktail prices: $ 16
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Opening times: Monday – Tuesday, 5 afternoon – 10:00 am; Thursday – Sunday, 5 Afternoon – 11:00
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In 2008, when Roberta began, the now-iconic pizzeria was a poor DIY matter in an old warehouse at the time unknown land of bushwick. Her tiki grass was a step forward from Lager Prandst Blue Ribbon and other beers with water watery favored by hipsters with early adoption. Now, Roberta is an empire, located in Manhattan, Los Angeles, Denver, Singapore and beyond. But that non -discountless non -discount lives in the Tiki bar of the original location. Wisely, Tiki’s influence is easy, though drinks are not. Among the Riffs Tiki crops are bright are Marg Boi, made with tequila, sec of triple and lime; The Young Money Melonaire (Rum, Ancho Reyes, Spicy Poblano, Melon and Campari); And A $ ap wa $ ail, a winter shock of Habanero Tequila and pineapple with cherry liqueur and spicy cider.
Shrinted head of otto -s
538 One 14th Street, New York, NY 10009
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Good to: Good
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Not so good for: Romance
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Fyi: The back room of the grass often expects small concerts and music nights
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Cocktail prices: 18 dollars in a Pint glass, $ 26 in a homemade mug
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Opening times: Sunday and Tuesday – Thursday, 4 afternoon – 11am; Friday – Saturday, 4 afternoon – 2am in the morning
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Probably the oldest of the distant city rods, Otto’s shrinking head opened at a pharmacy of former in 2002. Once the block was created with bars – Irish, diving, karaoke – but now given to target and other shops large. However, Otto has survived. The small grass is illuminated by holiday lights throughout the year, the walls are covered in seizal and drinks are classic tiki: Mai Tais, Singapore Slings and Zombies. Only a few cabins and stools, a photographic stand (without order since forever) and a video game (BIG BUCK HUNTER II: Paradise of the athlete) Round the feeling of a slightly island post destroyed by another place and another time.
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