The Captain's Cabin

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"Enter through an unobtrusive side door adjacent to sister restaurant Hula’s Modern Tiki to find this intimate, wood-paneled speakeasy. The Captain’s Cabin is a cross between a ‘40s-era Tahitian sailor bar and the cozy captain’s cabin of a boat, and turns out some of the city’s best tiki drinks. Barkeep David Muhlstein (aka “Captain David”) has mastered the art of tiki, whipping up classics such as the mai tai, hurricane, painkiller, and zombie that are complex and devoid of the syrupy sweetness often associated with the genre. Original cocktails such as The Wench, which pairs Jamaican rum with Amaro Montenegro, are destined to become modern classics in their own right." - Nikki Buchanan