Smuggler's Cove
  • Published: 15 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781607747321
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $59.99

Smuggler's Cove

Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki

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From the perennially popular and critically adored San Francisco bar Smuggler's Cove, an illustrated history of tiki and rum culture in America, with 100 recipes for tiki and rum-based cocktails, including the Mai Tai, Fogcutter, Singapore Sling, and more.

Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-invented; Hollywood starlets and scandals; and tiki’s modern-day revival, in this James Beard Award-winning cocktail book.

Featuring more than 100 delicious recipes (original and historic), plus a groundbreaking new approach to understanding rum, Smuggler’s Cove is the magnum opus of the contemporary tiki renaissance. Whether you’re looking for a new favorite cocktail, tips on how to trick out your home tiki grotto, help stocking your bar with great rums, or inspiration for your next tiki party, Smuggler’s Cove has everything you need to transform your world into a Polynesian Pop fantasia.

Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring—and often misunderstood—movements in American cultural history.
  • Published: 15 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781607747321
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $59.99

About the author

Martin Cate

MARTIN CATE is a rum and exotic cocktail expert and the owner of Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco. Smuggler’s Cove opened in 2009 and has been named one of the World’s 50 Best Bars by Drinks International (five years and counting), 13 Most Influential Bars of the 21st Century by Liquor.com, and America’s Best Bars by Playboy and Esquire. In 2015, he opened Whitechapel, a gin-focused bar also in San Francisco.

Praise for Smuggler's Cove

Praise for Smuggler's Cove:

  • "A Polynesian wonderland and arguably the best tiki bar in the country." --Robert Simonson, New York Times
  • "Martin was the first to take the principles of the craft cocktail and apply them to modern tiki drinks. I think Smuggler's Cove is the first true neo-craft tiki bar, and what's great is that the place itself is not trying to be serious, but the drink themselves are." --Jeff Berry, Los Angeles Times
  • "As San Francisco's and perhaps the nation's reigning tiki bar, Smuggler's Cove draws a crowd almost every night, and you've got to wait outside until there's space. It's worth the wait."--David Wondrich, "Best Bars in America 2013," Esquire