Trader Vic's

It's a shame this has closed....but in fairness, it wasn't great. Still, it was better than nothing! It was far too sterile, airy, and 'hotel restaurant' in atmosphere, yet it still had the Trader Vic's menu (both for food and cocktails). It was a nice place to hang out whenever I was in Berlin. I'm disappointed it's gone... but not heartbroken (now if the Trader Vic's in LONDON were to close down...different story!)

I was fortunate to visit Berlin's Trader Vics in 2004. It was total serindipity. I was there on business travel and just happened to be staying at the Marriott. I agree, there wasn't much that made the restaurant special, but it was nice to end the days meetings with a well crafted Zombie.

We once went there as it is really dificult to find anything remotely tiki in Berlin. And the name of course was kind of making the senses tingeling as Trader Vics was an essential part of the Tiki history of the 50ies and 60ies. But it was quite disappointing. The drinks were good, yes, but not really thrilling, there are better (non-tiki!)bars in Berlin concerning drink quality. But they were quite small and the prices were high! As they didn't feature a happy hour, as is standard with most cocktail bars in Berlin, even some of the best bars offer one, there would have been only ONE saviour to make me go here more often, atmosphere and theming. But it was disappointing, it was much to modern-cool, a cleaned up, slim design with barely any tiki elements! The live music didn't help much as it was Carribean style, not Polynesian. The minimum of theming was nothing compared to the true Trader Vics of the golden tiki era.
We went there once and didn't have any urge to go a second time. I am not surprised that it finally had to close as barely any Berlin cocktail fans knew about it.