TRADER VICS - MUNICH
Last
Surviving Tiki Original at Bayerischerhof
Trader
Vics at the Beverly Hilton Hotel closed forever, making the Munich
location of the famed Polynesian restaurant located
downstairs in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, the last surviving original
example of the unique architectual tiki style bar left in the world. There
are still other Trader Vics, but are more modern reinventions, there
is even a new one planned in Los Angeles to replace the old Beverly
Hills celebrity
hideout. Whenever I’m in Munich, I make it a point of tradition
to stop for a Mai Tai at Trader Vics. The bamboo and lighted blowfish
tiki
style
is experiencing
a resurgence in retro popularity, but the orignal examples are dwindling.
The Bayerischer Hof is one of Munich's premier luxury hotels on the
north
of the innenstadt (city center), a few minutes walk from the mechanical
Glockenspiel show at the Neues Rathaus in Marienplatz (see also A
TOUR WALK AROUND MUNICH).
You
don't have to stay at the Bayerischer
Hof to get you Tiki on, just stroll on through the lobby to the stairs
down below to the rich and moody polynesian atmosphere.The Munich
Trader Vic's is one of the few
left
in the worldwide chain which retains its original décor of Tiki
art and bamboo made hip in the late fifties by originator Victor "Trader
Vic" Bergeron. The Munich Trader Vics was established in 1972
for the Munich Olympics now made hot topic around the water cooler
by Steven
Spielberg's "Munich" film. The Mai Tai is an original concoction
of Trader Vics orginally invented by Bergeron in 1944 along with other
fruity delights and it’s a nostalgic joy to get the original -
paper umbrella and all - when one has had a fill of Wiesbeer and Wurst. © Bargain
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DON’T TREAD ON ME
CSI Munich
There
are murders in big cities around the world everyday. On TV crime shows
like CSI Miami they end up with an outline in chalk on the pavement.
In
Munich’s city center on the sidewalk 
around the corner from the
Hotel BayerischerHof is
the permanent outline in brass of Kurt Eisner,
high-ranking Munich politician gunned down in the turbulent upheaval
days
of WWI. Some politicians are remembered for what that have accomplished,
some for what they didn’t. But if you’re going to be remembered,
it just might as well be for where you died.
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