Elite Event: Rumtoberfest @ Bahama Breeze

Even though I ate here before with a co worker of mine before this event… I was still excited to come because I know the food will be good and it’s always good to see some old and new faces at these events. Always a good time.
Everything from the appetizers to the rum to the dessert… my belly was extremely satisfied. I couldn’t help but left this event thinking I definitely want to come back and order myself that appetizer.
and if I wasn’t so damn fool from everything else… I would ate more of the dessert.
Thank you Drew once again making this event for us… another successful event. And thanks for the hostess that provided us with the experiment. I definitely tried something different’ from my first experience.

I really love intimate events like these: just a few Elites getting to know each other, eating great food and imbibing some amazing rum. This event would be worth going to time and again.
Highlights — the appetizer plate was amazing, and I’m pretty sure we needed to ask them about 5 times for more coconut shrimp because it was just so good. The other food was good as well, though the shrimp was their star.
Drink-​wise, the zombie was tasty as was their painkiller. I hardly even remember the other ones, hazy as I was, but I do remember trying their rum straight. The Haitian 15 year was one of the boldest rums I’ve ever had, excluding craft liquors. Definitely worth a try next time you’re here.
Props to Drew to setting all this up. Looking forward to doing it over again sometime.

I’m a little late on this one — but what a blast this little dinner party turned out to be! The smaller tables gave this event more of an intimate setting, but it was great to see familiar and new faces boozing it up at the Breeze. Fried appetizers and rum galore — what could be better?! The hit of the night goes to the super tasty coconut shrimp, which tasted great with the chutney or the tangy honey mustard dipping sauce. As for the rum cocktail tastings — one was tastier and packed more of a punch than the next. They all had loads of flavor, fruitiness, and were as strong as could be. Tequila made an appearance, thanks to Chris N. The manager and the servers were very attentive and did a great job bringing out all the food and drinks in a timely manner; props for that! And as always, a big thank you to Drew and Unilocaltern Alexis for a fun time once again!

I was really excited about this event, I’ve heard so much about this place and I have to say I was not disappointed. From the moment you walk, your greeted by a hostess. The bar located close to the entrance is huge and fully stocked with plenty of assorted rums and other premium spirits. From the moment we sat down, we were started with the Nachos, guacamole and salsa and a nice tall brew… then we were treated to Sampler platter Jamaican chicken wings, crispy coconut shrimp, onion rings and conch fritters. I have to say wow! that was a great sampler, it was all delicious… After that we had Mixed Rum samplers of sweet mixed drinks so good, they were an excellent compliment for the samplers… then they treated us to a flight of top Shelf Rum Sampler with three aged rums from the islands, with a coke (Soda) chaser… yum, yum… then to close on such a great event was dessert, sponge cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream! How sweet it was… I will definitely return to experience the rest of the menu and hopefully happy hour as well… Kudos to our hostess Kim (Manager) and her staff, you guys outdid yourself with great customer service and knowledge of the menu. To our CM Drew and Alexis as always you guys know how to throw an awesome elite event:)… Almost forgot before we left our hostess Kim pass out gifts bags with some goodies, Awesome… Thank You for having us!

Fun fun fun… rum rum rum… food food food… friends friends friends… more rum rum rum. Seriously what a good time I had. A big thanks to Drew and the fine people at Bahama Breeze!!! Started out with chips & salsa, salsa was very fresh not some «out of a jar» types I’ve had in other places… then this ginourmous plate of nachos… mmmmm they were some good nachos. Then drinks… fun rum drinks. Liked Curly tail the best of course after sampling them all. Hey I had to make sure :) We were laughing and having a great time it was so nice to see everyone again it’s been a while since I have made an event and now some appies came onto our table, liked the coconut shrimp best, (wink wink thanks Drew!) We then got to sample some reserve rums the 15 year reserve was the winner for me. More laughs and good times and we finished the evening with a rum cake. A big thanks again for such a fun evening.

Oh, how I’ve missed my Unilocal peeps… Thank you Drew for an elite night! And it was close to home!!!
When I arrived the good times were well into rolling! Drinks were flowing and food was being inhaled. I personally love Bahama Breeze. So much that this Unilocaler had to take a break as I was becoming hooked (Hence the reason why my good buddy Bill S holds the throne as the Duke!) Lol. Back to the rum… When I saw the drink menu I KNEW I was in trouble. Growing up Caribbean, the rum selection was pretty familiar. My favorite… Barbancourt (Haiti). Smooth with a great burn going down. The mixed cocktails were also great. My favorite being the Goombay Smash (Always). Highlight of the event, RUM CAKE! So good I had to stop myself before I ate every plate! However, I believe we may need an intervention for Sunshine M, she had a hard time saying goodbye to the cake! Lol. Mingling, Nibbling & Sipping are what I do best, I had such a great time doing my favorite activities with some of the greatest fellow foodies. Oh! The Bahama Breeze staff gets 2 thumbs up for being attentive, patient and oh so pleasant! I don’t think it will be long before I go back! Im coming for that throne Bill!!! Lol Jk! HAPPY UnilocalING!’

What an awesome night with a great Unilocal family! Bahama Breeze really did a great job giving us a sample of many different foods and drinks from the Caribbean. Front start to finish it was a success. Everyone had a Nacho Platter to start. Then we all had a nice cold 20oz Aruba Red beer was really good. Then came time for the Island Hopper Sampler platter (Jamaican chicken wings, crispy coconut shrimp, onion rings and conch fritters. Served with citrus-​mustard, jerk barbecue sauce and roasted pineapple chutney.) it was a really a nice variety of Caribbean food and it was delicious. After that we had Mixed Rum samplers of the sweet mixed drinks so good! My favorite was the «Pain Killer» (Pusser’s Dark Rum, cream of coconut, pineapple and orange juice, with freshly ground nutmeg on top.) Then if that wasn’t enough they brought out the Top Shelf Rum Sampler with three aged rums from the islands. I liked the middle the best it was Zaya Gran Reserva from Trinidad it had vanilla and caramel flavor so good. The rum flights came with authentic Coke bottles from Mexico made with real cane sugar. I am going back this week for the amazing happy hour. Great prices on food and drinks. The food and the drinks kept coming out and the Manager and hostess Kim was very helpful and the staff did s great job. Big thank you to Drew and Alexis for making this happen and thank you to our Unilocal family that made it a fun night !

Not certain I can do this, but I feel you should just read the previous 5 reviews posted here for this event, as they collectively captured the essence of what a Unilocal social event is all about.
As Mike stated, this was like a dinner party, and the only regret is that we didn’t have one communal table because each table looked like they were having so much fun.
Kudos to hardworking, attentive and spirited Bahama Breeze crew on making this truly a remarkable Rum– Tober– FEST! Chips and guacamole, nachos and fried everythings were perfect paired with the house 20 oz. Aruba Red ($ 3 bucks if you make it before Happy Hour ends at 6PM). The real fun (and misbehavior) started when the 9 pour cocktail flights hit the table. These mixed drinks took me back to my early 80’s yearlong tour of duty in Grenada, where the rum drinks were flavorful and truly packed a punch. The highlight of the evening though had to be the premium rum flight, which is an item on the Rumtoberfest drink menu. 3 top shelf aged rums served with a 12 oz Coke on the side. I particularly enjoyed slowly sipping and savoring the smooth sexy spicy seductive Haitian 15 year old Barbancount Estate Reserve. Christina offered a sip of her Mount Gay XO, which was tasted like boozy banana bread. Not certain if it was the house or Unilocaler Chris that deserves the thanks for a second Barbancourt! The Mexican (cane sugar) Coke was superfluous, as many of us decided the rums were best left neat. Oh, and check out the pictures of dessert, moist fresh boozy and sweet, one teaspoon was enough for me to understand how sinfully good this cake was!
Thank you again Alexis for capturing the energy of the room in your excellent photostream, and for the Twitter tutorial and retweets! Another awesome gathering, thank you Drew!

Read in a Temptations «My Girl» Melody… I had sunshine on a cloudy day. Yes I met Sunshine at the next table, & she was crazy cool.
Yes it was cold outside but it wasn’t the month of May. It was October & great weather for Rum tasting.
I guess you’ll say, what can make me feel this way… My Unilocal,talking about My Unilocal… Oooo
Once again Drew & Alexis hit a grand slam home run!
It was the perfect intimate gathering of fellow foodies & imbibers! Kim our hostess explained what was about to happen & what the Bahama Breeze had to offer albeit with her very soft voice.
We started with a plate of tortilla chips with guacamole. Then they brought out a HUGE platter of Nachos loaded with meat, cheese, sour cream & all the fixings. Immediately followed another HUGE platter of Conch Fritters which were light & flavorful made a little sweet with corn. Coconut shrimp, a spicy fried wing which I wouldn’t call exactly jerk chicken & onion rings.
But the Rum was truly the star of the event. The 3 sets of flight rum cocktails with names like Painkiller, Curly Tail, Yaka Hula Hicky Dula & others I can’t recall were the perfect foil for the fried goodies.
Not to be outdone were the Rum flights, smooth, sweet notes & smokey undertones. I had several, yes I did. Because everything was free flowing. You asked & Lea happily obliged with more if whatever we wanted.
I enjoyed my time with my fellow Unilocalers. Some familiar faces & some new friends were made. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to chat with Drew some more & getting to know Alexis better.
Inside jokes were formed, Marisa & Sunshine Holla! Great photos were taken. Check out Mike S’s pic of me, Bill & Marissa taking a pic. Niiiice!
And that Lee & Lisa are the Dynamic Duo of fun!
Shout out to my fellow head eater Cindy, I meant shrimp heads folks & wing devourer Jia Jia, I had a blast! Hope your hubby enjoyed his Coke LOL.
OH YEAH, I almost forgot to add I used a wonderful car service Late Night Chauffeurs to drive my alcohol soaked behind home. Check them out.
Elite events seem to get better & better! Thanks Drew!

I ironically ate here tonight! However I didn’t take advantage of the «elite event» because It said that the reservations were full!!!
Dinner was delicious regardless (about to post a review as we speak). I believe I may have caught a few of you guys if you were in that back corner! Ya’ll sounded like you had fun! Hopefully next time i’ll be able to sign up and partake!

I just love Unilocal & Unilocal events. As usual the usual crew was out and we had some good laughs *ahem* Christina!!! We also had some good drinks and good food.
Drew definitely caught me oogling the coconut shrimp. My table which consisted of Bill, Karen, Mike, and Remi & her awesome floating in and out of the table with Drew standing at the head and they all got a good look of me attempting the wing but getting freaked out needless to say. «It’s like someone’s little leg! Like a frog leg! Ewww!» I’m sorry y’all I just gotta have boneless if I’m having wings. Yep. I’m lame. Just give me boneless and there will be no awkwardness. I promise!!!
I also finally met Sunshine tonight and she finally figured out who the horse masked chick was at GSB. I apologized for freaking her out and it was so nice to meet you!
Props to Mike for starting the name tag game on me! They even got one of our waitresses to join in on the fun to tag me briefly. Ah good times!
Anyway another great event thanks to our kick ass CM Drew and Marketing Gal Alexis!!! See you all the next one!

Rum on baby!
To have an Elite event here is something short of winning lotto. I’m the Duke of Bahama Breeze. It’s the only Bahama Breeze restaurant in New York so suck it Nassau county! (They get Shake Shack, DQ and Grimaldis so I have a personal grudge)
This Bahama Breeze in suffolk county NY rocks! They have live steel drums during happy hour, $ 4 beers and ½ price apps. Sitting outside during the summer is something close to magical.
If you close your eyes, you can feel the Bahama Breeze.
This event tonight served all of my favorites: coconut shrimp, conch fritters, amazing onion rings and drinks! Lotsa drinks baby
I’m with all my favorite Unilocal Elite: Mike, Karen and the effervescent Marisa. They gave us tastings: Rum Runners, Zombie things and Rum with juice. It tasted ok but then comes out the kicker: Three different rums in tasting glasses, an aged 15 yr old rum, Rum aged in vanilla barrels and another barrel rum. NO ONE AT THE TABLE WANTED THESE TASTINGS
Hmmm… so good and it great Bahama Breeze has these rums available for purchase.
All in all, Thanks to Drew and Unilocal for a great event! And it was great to see all of my Unilocal Elite friends

This event was like a cool little dinner party for us because it certainly seemed like some of the Elite that signed up for the event couldn’t make it — a bit of shame because they missed out on some fun!
Assorted chips (tortilla and plantains) with salsa were on the table when we arrived. Unfortunately due to the layout of our event section the group was split among three tables (Once the rum was flowing everyone was mingling). Soon after a plate of Nachos bigger than your head was brought out — all very good for sharing and great way to start a party.
I ordered an Aruba Red and it was generous 20 oz. pour — a tasty amber lager this was to go with various flights of Rum based drinks — all very tasty. The Painkiller seemed like a bit of hit — a hybrid between a piña colada and creamsicle. For me, the flights of high end straight rum were just the tops — some quality stuff. This was served with Coca-​cola that was made in Mexico which uses real sugar and most prefer the taste. It would be a shame to mix the high quality rums with coke though.
The app sampler was a nice mix — I enjoyed the coconut shrimp and Bahama Breeze generously brought out more orders for everyone to enjoy. Onion rings were tasty and the Conch fritters which is bit of novelty in the NY area, but quite common in the Caribbean. I’m not much of chicken wing guy so I passed on these.
During the night we found out Bahama Breeze has a killer happy hour and I want to make it a point to get out here for that with a large selections of bites and drinks at special low prices. More info here:
Bill kept raving about the CRAB STACK, which I will keep it mind for when I return.
To top off the night dessert was brought out, which was a nice sweet treat and we were given little gift bags. The staff here was all very friendly and attentive — Kim, the manager, was a great host and Lea was a standout even joining in on the name tag action on Marisa! Fun night!
Shout-​outs: It was great to have more time to hang out with Drew since our group was more intimate — big thanks to him and Alexis, who always to do a stellar job. Our table was cool and stalker free — Marisa, Karen, Bill and part-​timer Remi all super awesome people to spend an evening. My buds Lisa and Lee, who always know how to party and AFTER PARTY! Sunshine, who can live without a bit of Sunshine in their lives?! My buddy Christina always a kind word and friendly smile. Ruben is always the man — jumping right in! The cool kids in the corner — K-​Wood, Brianne, and Katherine always good to see you all. As always the evening went by too fast

Another successful– fun– Long Island event. thanks Drew!
Worth the 1.5 he drive in traffic.
Soon as you walk in, you feel the warm Bahama breeze and hear island music playing on the background. They should consider hammocks– it would be a hit ! Friendly and super helpful staff kept the drinks coming and the food hot and available. The pain killer is my fave drink from their extensive drink list. Rum and coconut is always a winner. The coconut shrimp was also a hit. the jerked wings were a tad too salty– not nothing my pain killer couldn’t fix. Then the rum cake. I’ve been all over then carribean and my goodness– the rum cake here is saturated– soaked– drenched in RUM! It’s legit– freshly made– genuine Rum cake. I will be back– great experience! Highly recommend. Thanks drew !