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POLYNESIAN MUNICH
Munich Trader Vics - Last
Surviving Tiki Original
It's
official, Trader Vics at the Beverly Hilton Hotel has 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. 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).
As
a bargain traveler in Europe, I may not stay at the Bayerischer Hof, except
on an expense account, but the Munich Trader Vics 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. ©
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The Hotel
Bayerischer Hof
Promenadeplatz, 2-6
80333 Munchen, Germany
Tel: +49-89-2120995
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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