London Tiki Tour - Part 2 - Trader Vic's, Rum Club, Floridita

Day two we went to Portobello Market and wandered around for a couple of hours in the morning. Not very impressed by the market itself but there are some cool shops in the area. I managed to find some little tikis in a small vintage shop for £2!

Got wood? ;)

For lunch, we went to a traditional looking pub in some corner in Portobello. It takes a truly disgusting meal to really appreciate good food. We couldn't eat our burgers and even the chips were terrible. How can you get potatoes wrong?! We left them a note on how we felt about the meal...

In the evening we went to Trader Vic's for the half price three course meal for which I got the voucher in January. After a horrible lunch I was really looking forward to this and wasn't disappointed!

Cute ceramic tiki salt & pepper shakers

Menehune Juice Cocktail... Mmmm

The food was lovely but the desert was even better.

Lovely desert with spicy pineapple

Amazing Tiki carving in the kitchen area

The bartender liked our tiki shirts and gave us a free cocktail which came surrounded by packed crushed ice! Like an icy volcano! :D

Another pretty cocktail - This one's a Scorpion

On Monday, before the Barbados Rum Club, we spent the day on board of the HMS Belfast. I love this place.

Giving out the Tot!

I only took one picture at the Rum Club. Four hours of Barbados Rum fun filled with delicious drinks and very knowlegeable brand ambassadors who made the night muito interesting!

Last day in London, we went down to Soho so we could try Floridita. I liked the Rum Shack section and the cocktails were very good. We couldn't stay long as we had a train to catch and had to run off just as the Cuban band was going on! Until next time!

Train back to Manchester

Tiki Tour Part II Tiki Haul

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London Tiki Tour - Part 2 - The Rum Kitchen Diaries

This month we went on the second leg of our London Tiki Tour.

First stop - The Rum Kitchen

I found out about this place last time we went down to London but we didn't have enough time to fit it in.

I emailed them a couple of weeks before going down and a lady named Jo, who is the friendliest and coolest person I've ever dealt with through email, booked us in. We were all set for some jerk chicken and tasty cocktails!

Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the restaurant but the décor is really cool. Brightly coloured painted wood slats all over the place give you that warm Caribbean beach shack feel. It's really relaxed, the staff are super attentive, great music, I can't fault it.

We settled in with a couple of cocktails and sat down to what is by far the best meal I have ever had.

After our delicious meal (I'm still salivating writing about it) we headed downstairs where we spent the rest of our evening drinking Alexx's delicious cocktails. It was such a great night. At one point Martin was shaking drinks and I was getting cocktail shakers thrown at me and failing to catch them everytime.

Alexx and his overproof rum fire breathing skills

How I was seeing the world by the end of the night!

We are looking forward to visiting The Rum Kitchen again and again. Until then, they have left us hungry and thirsty for more!