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Spirits & Distilling

Trader Vic’s

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

is a chain of tiki bars that began in Oakland, California. See tiki. Its founder, Victor Bergeron, claimed to have invented the Mai Tai. See Bergeron, Victor “Trader Vic”;, Mai Tai.

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Maria Dolores Boadas tossing a cocktail behind the bar at Bar Boadas, Barcelona, ca. 1965.

Courtesy of Bar Boadas.

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Maria Dolores Boadas tossing a cocktail behind the bar at Bar Boadas, Barcelona, ca. 1965. Source: Courtesy of Bar Boadas.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).