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Devil's Reef offers visitors the darker side of Tiki

Since 2018, this Tacoma bar has offered more than spicy rum cocktails. They've also provided a shadowy escape from the world outside

king5evening

6 days ago

welcome to the darker side of tiki since 2018 Devil's Reef has offered more than spicy rum cocktails they've also provided a shadowy escape from the brightly lit World outside we want to make you feel like you've been transported to somewhere else and take the outside reality out of the equation Jason Alexander credits a short story by horror writer HP Lovecraft with the inspiration as your eyes adjust to the light a dark nautical Vibe makes itself known and you may see things that tingle the sp
ine there's no sun here just darkness there's also shelves upon shelves of tiki mugs a private collection amassed over 15 years there are private booths and strong cocktails like one called the pile of bones pile of Bon so it was uh inspired by an old classic exotic cocktail called the shrunken skull and I just cranked it up a few notches and rebuilt it to be the Fibonacci sequence of numbers so it's a drink built to the golden ratio with all of its ingredients inside of it if that sounds mathem
atical it is the layers are deep here it just depends on how deep you want to go Devil's Reef has drawn people from as far away as England what a place to be run ground you can kind of choose how how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go or you can just sit here and have a drink and hang out Devil's Reef has opened especially for us tonight they are usually open Wednesday through Saturday starting at 5: and running as late as midnight

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@jordanmarsh8054

We love DR! Jason and his crew are fantastic and those drinks are bonkers good.

@TechWithSean

This place rocks, its kind of hidden though. Walk into the door under the ships wheel in Opera Alley, then go in the door on the left.

@JeremyTikiSnob

Jason Rules!