It’s time to upgrade your summer drinks from flimsy plastic cups filled with blended fruit syrup and bottom-shelf booze. True tiki cocktails are made with quality spirits (mainly all kinds of rum) and ...

You’re not booking a beach vacation this year, but that doesn’t mean the open tiki bar is closed. Easy Tiki ($13), a new cocktail recipe book by Punch senior editor Chloe Frechette, is the essential ...

Downtown Dayton restaurant changes to new concept and offers two summer cocktails to try in your own kitchens. The right cocktail can elevate a mood and a meal. Emily Mendenhall, co-owner of Lily’s, ...

There’s an aphorism in cocktails: The more ingredients a drink has, the less likely it will be great. Tiki is what happens when you take something garish and baroque and decide to lean in. Your ...

Before I left home for college, my mom decided it was time to tell me about the one time she got drunk. She kept it brief, but it involved a boat and drinking three mai tais, one of the most beloved ...

Critics often bash them as “umbrella drinks,” which can be code for “syrupy sweet” and “excessively showy.” But true cocktail-lovers know there’s more to them than that. We call them “tiki” drinks, ...

When creating the Get Rich or Chai Tryin' cocktail, Unknown Caller bar operating partner Kris Candamil was inspired by Trader Vic's Mai Tai - supposedly the original Mai Tai, invented by Tiki movement ...

When the pandemic shutdown arrived in mid-March, the video-conferencing apps used for work meetings turned out to have more playful applications, too. Zoom and its party-enabling cousins suddenly ...

We can’t exactly escape to the nearest tropical island right now — Hawaii’s two-week quarantine for travelers is still firmly in place — but a tiki cocktail can help us dream of those swaying palms.

Tiki concoctions can have a laundry list of ingredients—a few rums, plus liqueurs, and some heady sweet-sour-spice amalgamation. They are potent potables, that, when done right, hit the spot. All that ...