I definitely need to raise the ratings on Trader Vics! My boyfriend and I went here for the second time on Christmas Eve for happy hour and again, had an amazing time!
When we came here the first time, our bill was over $200 so we thought we'd save ourselves some money and just check out the happy hour from 4-6pm Monday-Wednesday. They have about 50 different drink concoctions and most of them were half off (so about $5-6) but not all of them. It's so fun trying different ones, they come in cool tiki-like glasses and are mostly rum concoctions and taste delicious. We liked the Zombie, Suffering Bastard and Molokai MIke but I must warn you: THEY ARE POTENT! This turned into a "cab night" for us but that was after we walked to Coach House afterward...
For appetizers we ordered the Beef Cho-Cho, crab rangoons and the calamari. The Beef Cho-Cho is sooooooooo good, it must be in some kind of plum sauce and you get to heat it up yourself with a hibachi. Calamari is one of my favorite foods so I try it everywhere I go and it was very good here, the crispy kind and they didn't put any of the scary tentacled ones in there either that no one eats :-) Good dipping sauces too...
I must prop out our waitress Brittany, she had great recommendations and was very enthusiastic and on point. We were again very impressed with the staff there. I definitely recommend Trader Vics (Home of the Mai Tai) and Hotel Vally Ho as well!