Hidden Harbor

Tiki never sleeps. We’re open today at 5:00 p.m. for outdoor seating and the start of our last weekend of holiday cocktails, with all cocktails also available to-go. On the food side, we’re running a special limited menu of pork and veggie sausages and house-made kraut and haluski for the holiday, sure to fill your bellies and start this new - and hopefully better - year with maximum comfort.

NYE update: we have exactly one four-person table left in each of our three seatings (4:30, 6:30, and 8:30) tonight, plus the ability to take a few more pre-orders for plates of food in most pickup windows. To book a table or pre-order food (fried chicken, pulled pork, or fried tofu, plus sides and chocolate lava cake), visit: http://www.independentpgh.com/2020-new-years-eve

Who’s ready to Tiki Like a Champion on Thursday? Our annual New Year’s Eve celebration has it all: fried chicken, Rick Sebak on the decks, and our Champions List of baller tiki cocktails served in coconuts and cored pineapples and the like. Limited reservations for mostly 4-person tables remain available on our website, with a pre-order takeout option for plates of fried chicken, pulled pork, or fried tofu, each with scratch-made biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens, and chocolate lava cake. Let’s send this dumpster fire of a year off like the champions that we all are.

Friends: we cordially invite you to join us in sending off this crummiest of years the only way we know how: by defiantly tiki-ing like the champions that we (and you) are. This Thursday, we’re taking our annual New Year’s Eve celebration outdoors into our tented, heated back patio, and over the course of three seatings, incorporating the best of past New Year’s events - fried chicken buckets, premier-cru grower Champagne, and a baller Champion’s List of over-the-top tiki cocktails - and adding another level in the form of a funk-driven vinyl set by our pal Rick Sebak. Full details are available on the event page on the Independent website, where you can book a table or pre-order some killer eats to-go: http://www.independentpgh.com/2020-new-years-eve

High of 78 today in Pittsburgh. Careful or your ice plane will melt! #TikiTimeMachine

Christmas may be behind us, but we’re offering a gentle come-down from the holiday highs by extending the run of our holiday cocktail menu through next Saturday (other than for New Year’s Eve, with details on that to come). For those uninterested in braving the cold to reach our tented, toasty back patio, a heads-up that our full cocktail menu will be available made-to-order and to-go today starting when we open at 3:00 p.m. Cheers!

It’s all gas, no brakes these days at the Harbor, as we work to make the most of the unseasonably warm weather that we’ve been gifted. We’re dropping a mostly-new cocktail menu tonight, on top of the special menu of British-inspired eats we’re running all weekend with the Independent for Guy Fawkes Day (most of them available for takeout). Here, from the new cocktail menu, is the Cape of Good Fear, a gin and bourbon-based banger with citrus, passion fruit, cranberry shrub, and a nip of sage. Tiki meets Turkey Day? You better believe it. We’re open at 5:00 p.m. tonight and 3:00 p.m. Saturday for outdoor-only seating, with limited reservations available on our website (just a couple spots left late tonight, with scattered availability tomorrow). Mahalo as always for all your support!

Here’s a fuller look at the fresh new packaging for our Tiki To-Go cocktails, designed by our buddy, Tony Canepa. We’ve got Saturns and Painkillers in their new duds this weekend, with more cocktails to follow over the next few weeks, all for your at-home enjoyment. Order through the Independent’s takeout site for local pickup seven days a week. Cheers!

Back in stock: Painkillers and Saturns, in handsome new Tiki To-Go packaging by our main man Tony Canepa.

Tonight: after voting, hop in our #TikiTimeMachine for a brief vacation from your crippling election-related anxiety. We’ll see where we end up! Also slinging Tiki To-Go cocktails and mocktails to nurse while watching returns at home.