Drink of the Week

DRINK OF THE WEEK: PUKA BAR’S WITCH DOCTOR

David StelzmullerWed. October 10
 


PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES

You’ve been working too hard. Your dog died. You have a broken heart and shattered dreams. Your life is a country rock anthem. You need some healing, fast, and you find it in the bottom of a glass at the Puka Bar. The person concocting your potion has little or no proficiency in metaphysical healing arts, but she fixes you up right with a Witch Doctor. Unapologetic for being the least tiki of the beverages on the Puka Bar’s menu—surrounded by an army of mai tais, sea foam, and zombies—the Witch Doctor doesn’t have the good courtesy to taste fruity like its compatriots. Instead, this drink is here to help you forget your woes, forget where you are, and forget you’re drinking a glass of rum, lime juice and crème de menthe (topped off with splash of pina colada to give it all a nice creamy sickly green color). The first drink is smooth and crisp, thanks to the mint; the second, well, who cares; by the third, you are wondering where this drink has been your whole life. I don’t like piña coladas or care much for crème de menthe, but halfway through this elixir I had no choice but to become a minion of the Witch Doctor. Damn thing done saved my life.

THE PUKA BAR 710 WILLOW ST | LONG BEACH 90806 | 562.997.6896

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