This version of the drink comes from San Francisco’s Smuggler’s Cove menu, updating a traditional recipe with bourbon that the 1873 Brooklyn Daily Eagle called it “the surest thing in the world to get drunk on” They weren’t wrong.
Humuhumunukunukuapua’a is a modern tropical cocktail created around 2014 by bartender Marcovaldo Dionysos at Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco. Named after Hawaii’s state fish—the reef triggerfish, The name roughly translates from Hawaiian to “triggerfish with a snout like a pig”—the drink stands out as a rare, gin-based addition to the modern Tiki revival canon.
