If Trader Vic’s met a New Orleans speakeasy, you’d end up with Shore Leave, a cheeky delight of an underground tiki bar from the team behind nearby Bar Mezzana. In normal times, you enter through the inconspicuous side door, wind your way down a few flights of stairs, and emerge into the tropics. One day we’ll all be back underground, but in the meantime the bar has launched The Life Raft by Shore Leave, a new patio space at the bar’s main entrance and is open Wednesday through Sunday. The traditional tiki cocktails are still on and are still merely the jumping off point for elixirs like Air Conditioned Eden (a pineapple infused martini with Bianco and dry vermouths, Agricole rum, and a molasses-based gin from Germany).

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