Tiki-themed restaurant Trader Vic's, which shut down its Beverly Hills Hilton outpost is making a comeback.
Reduced to just serving drinks and a small menu at the Beverly Hills Hilton's poolside, Trader Vic's will now be reborn as part of the L.A. Live complex, the L.A. Times writes:
Most of LA Live's restaurants -- including the Farm of Beverly Hills, Katsuya, Lawry's Carvery, Yard House and Rock 'n' Fish -- are scheduled to open late this year. The movie theater would open in 2009 and the project's two hotels, a JW Marriott and a Ritz-Carlton, would open in 2010.
Representatives from the Valencia Group, which owns the Trader Vic's chain, said the restaurant would open next year with Polynesian dancers, tiki-style drinks and what they described as Island-Asian fusion food.
Of course, it still won't be the same as the Beverly Hills original (here's our 2004 review). Knowing when you stepped inside the old, dark space that old Hollywood once sipped Mai Tais there -- and knowing the tiki decor had been there during the height of the 1950s craze -- was part of the experience. The new L.A. Live Trader Joe's will probably look much more scrubbed down and chain-y, like other recently opened outposts. But still, it's better than no Trader Vic's at all. Welcome back, Vic!
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