The Tatsu-ya team never rests: after debuting an ice cream shop earlier this month, next up for the restaurant group is its highly anticipated South Lamar tiki bar. To gear up for its eventual winter 2019/2020 opening, Tiki Tatsu-ya is previewing some of its cocktails during the kick-off party at Texas Tiki Week tonight, Tuesday, September 24, from noon to 9 p.m. at the Pershing, though it is unfortunately sold out.

Tiki Tatsu-ya manager Aaron Reed will whip up four cocktails for the party, with the help of new team member, assistant general manager, and bar manager Cory Starr (who had worked at beloved Chicago tiki bar Three Dots & a Dash, which is also participating in the party). Together, they’ve “refined our classic tiki drinks menu and introduce a whole slew of unique cocktails,” Reed told Eater, with original tiki cocktails and “re-imaginings of some of our old favorites.”

“The food and beverage menu,” Reed continued (chef/owner Tatsu Aikawa is helping round out the drinks menu with an eye towards complementing dishes), “honors both tiki and Hawaiian classics while inserting Japanese flavor components that are true to our company’s roots.”

For the Texas Tiki Week party, there’s the Sangre de la Sandia (Spanish for “watermelon blood”) with prickly pear and pandan leaves. The 7-Day Weekend sounds like a pineapple sour with clarified and acidulated pineapples, plus coconut ambrosia tea and coconut salt. Tiki Tatsu-ya’s mai tai take features five different rums. The Uki Dama comes with yuzu sherbet. Scope out the full list of drinks and the respective ingredients below.

Tiki Tatsu-ya’s Texas Tiki Week Party Cocktails

Sangre de la Sandia

El Tesoro tequila

La Maison & Velier’s clairin vaval

Clement Canne Bleue rhum agricole

Cocchi Rosa

Acidulated watermelon

Pineapple juice

Prickly pear-pandan

7-Day Weekend

Banana-infused Toki Suntory whisky

Clarified acidulated pineapple

Coconut ambrosia tea

Coconut salt

Mai Tai Tatsu-Ya

Habitation Velier Forsyths Worthy Park 502 single Jamaican rum

La Maison & Velier Hampden Estate single Jamaican rum

Clement Premiere Canne rhum agricole

Chairman’s Reserve Forgotten Cask rum

La Maison & Velier Clairin Le Rocher Haitian rum

Mandarin

Lime juice

Orgeat

Uki Dama

Appleton Signature Jamaican rum

Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva rum

Jagermeister Scharf

Lime acid phosphate

Clarified pineapple juice

Falernum

Sarsaparilla

Yaupon tea

Pomegranate

Angostura bitters

Yuzu sherbet

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