This Chicago Bar Is Serving an $800 Mai Tai Made With the Original Ingredients From the 1940s

Feeling fancy? Treat yourself to the ultimate Mai Tai experience at The Bamboo Room, featuring the OG recipe and a price tag to match. Chicago cocktails

Back in the mid-’40s, the story goes, Bergeron was behind the bar of the original Trader Vic’s in Oakland, California, when a few of his Tahitian friends stopped by and asked him to whip up something featuring Jamaican rum. Bergeron added lime juice, orgeat , and orange curaçao, resulting in a drink that caused his pals to say “Maita’i roa a’e,” or something like “the best of all.” Bergeron shortened that phrase to Mai Tai, and the rest is history.

will be available when the drink hits the Bamboo Room’s menu in a couple of weeks. But if you’re able to get your hands on one, it might feel—and taste—as if you’ve been transported back to that pivotal moment at the original Trader Vic’s, with Bergeron and his friends making cocktail history.

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