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Did you know?
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Reserve your Birthday dinner Party
with us, and we will offer you a Complimentary cake.
For Something Truly Special
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Come and celebrate your birthday
at The Boathouse Bar and let us surprise you!
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Trader Vic's Own Story!
I knew a great number of my customers in Oakland were from San Francisco and when I felt enough people were interested
in a Trader Vic's across the bay, we started to look for a location. Drove up one street and down the next. Finally, I found a parking lot
with a garage on it on Cosmo Alley. I looked up the owner and he was willing to lease." That's how it started according to
"Frankly Speaking," the autobiography of the late Trader Vic himself, Victor Bergeron. In 1951, when Trader Vic opened
his restaurant on this alley street in the Tenderloin, he founded what became the hub of sophisticated night life in the City,
a club atmosphere often compared to New York's "21." In addition, the eccentric traveler and restaurateur invented the Mai
Tai, mainstreamed Polynesian food in the U.S., and built an international restaurant empire that continues to operate today
under Bergeron heirs. The San Francisco location, now the popular Le Colonial Vietnamese restaurant, closed in the early 1990s,
but not before carving out an important place in history not only for San Franciscans, but for Britons as well. During her
1983 visit to America, Queen Elizabeth II, who was touring San Francisco with the Reagans, ate a meal for the
very first time in any restaurant. Trader Vic's was the place. In Vic's Trafalgar Room, the queen, Prince Philip, the Reagans,
and their party were served Indonesian lamb roast with peanut sauce, Chinese pork, smoked salmon, and three California wines.
In addition to the wines - chardonnays and a cabernet - the queen had a daiquiri on the rocks and a Tanqueray martini. Dessert
was rum ice cream with praline sauce and fortune cookies.
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Complimentary Dinner For Two
Gift Reminder
Free entry into monthly business card draw and
have a chance to win a complimentary dinner for two persons
Drop your Business card at
Trader
Vics
Or E-mail us at alain.tradervics@rotana.com
Winner will be notified by Mail or E-mail.
Mai Tai History
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Among Trader Vic's More tantalizing legacies is original
Mai Tai, the braingly refreshing rum cocktail he created at his oakland restaurant
in 1944 and introduced to the Hawaiian island in the 1950
Tahitian for "the very best'Mai Tai became the slogan for an operation that now including
29 polynesian style restaurants around the world
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