Chinos is an Urban Tiki House & Taiwanese Cantina!

We call it that because, well rst, we are located in the heart of the Pike-Pine Corridor of Capitol Hill the busiest and most vibrant sec?on of SeaAles densest and most colorful district. We want Chinos to be an oasis where you can take refuge from the bustle and excitement that surrounds us. In other words, an Urban Tiki House! Second, we call ourselves a Taiwanese Can?na because our atmosphere and food reects the two dominant ethnic cultures of Los Angeles a city of immigrants (and where we grew up!). Incidentally, ?ki was invented in L.A., as well, by Don the Beachcomber, in 1934. So it all ?es together preAy nicely, dont cha think? We hope you enjoy!

A Note on Service
Chinos is a casual place. Find a seat, pull up a chair, and kick back! Feel free to order up front under the Marlboro sign or wait for a cocktail server to come by.

Glossary
Cantina
A type of bar in Mexico frequented only by men. Patrons are expected to purchase alcoholic drinks in return for complimentary appe?zers and bar snacks. Can?nas are casual gathering places where guests might play cards, dominoes, or sing into the night.

Curaao
A liqueur avored with the dried peel of the laraha citrus fruit, grown on the island of Curaao. Examples include Cointreau and Triple Sec.

Falernum
Sweet syrup with various spices (cloves, anise, etc.), lime, and typically for?ed with a base spirit such as brandy or overproof rum.

Five-Spice
A spice mixture prevalent in Chinese cookery, generally consis?ng of star anise, cinnamon, fennel seed, cloves, and Sichuan peppercorn.

Happy Hour
4PM to 7PM EVERYDAY Selected House Cocktails $6 Drah Beers $1 off House Red or White $5 House Sake $6 Daily Food Specials Complimentary Popcorn or Peanuts

Grenadine
Pomegranate-based syrup used both to avor cocktails and give them a lovely pink hue.

Muscavado
Some?mes referred to as Barbados sugar -- a type of unrened brown sugar that is quite moist and has a strong molasses avor.

Marasca Cherry
A small sour cherry grown in coastal Croa?a, dis?lled to make Maraschino liqueur and preserved to make true Maraschino cherries.

Orgeat
Sweetened almond syrup with hints of orange ower water; used to sweeten tropical drinks, the most famous of which is the Mai Tai.

Tiki
An American cultural phenomenon invented almost en?rely by Don the Beachcomber and which became hugely popular throughout the 50s and 60s. The Tiki style combines faux-Polynesian kitsch, Americanized Chinese food, and tropical cocktails.

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American Whiskey - Bourbon
Blantons $11 Bualo Trace $8 Bulleit $8 Elmer T. Lee $10 Four Roses Small Batch $9 Jim Beam $5 Woodford Reserve $9

Chow
Furikake Kettlecorn
$3 sweet and salty; popped in pork fat and tossed with Asian rice seasoning

V Pickle Platter $5
house made dipping sauce

VA Veg of the Day $5.5

sauted in pork fat and garlic; sea salt and vinegar

American Whiskey - Rye

Bulleit $8 Old Overholt $6 Templeton $10 Wild Turkey $7

Tristans Taquitos

$5.5

cuz he wanted to name them; 5 taquitos served with house-made salsa

Lonchera Tacos

$5.5

Irish Whiskey
Bushmills $7 Jameson $7 Knappoque Castle 12 Year (single malt) $10

2 street tacos (ask about todays meat choices); cilantro, onion and a sauce of some sort

VA (Also) Bad Ass Burrito $8

wrapped in a our tor?lla; cilantro, onion and salsa

Scotch Whisky - Blended

Dewars White Label $6 Johnny Walker Black Label $8

VA Gua Bao Platter $9

3 pork belly or tofu buns, with pickled mustard greens, cilantro and crushed sweet peanuts

Scotch Whisky - Single Malt

Auchentoshan $8 Glenmorangie Lasanta (12 year) $11 Laphroaig 10 Year Old $12 The Macallan Cask Strength (10 year) $16 Oban (14 year) $16

Those Famous Chicken Wings

$9

from that place in PDX (and now NYC!); fried with sh sauce-garlic glaze

Zha Jiang Mein

$11

Chinese spaghen - minced pork, hot bean paste, sweet bean sauce, over noodles

Rice Bowl of the Day From the Grill

$12

a protein served over rice with accompaniments Market Price

a plaAer of yummy stu for 2 or more people; youll get some meat or sh and some sides to go with it - ask about todays oering
V - Vegetarian / VA - Vegetarian Op;on Available The health department would like you to know that ea?ng raw or undercooked foods may result in foodborne illness. For those with severe peanut allergies, please note: We use LOTS of crushed peanuts and it gets everywhere.

Captains List, cont. Cocktails - Tiki

Pieces of Eight
$8

Cognac & Armagnac

Hennessy $8 Larrensingle $13

Puerto Rican rum, passion fruit, lime, lemon

Gin
Avia?on $8 Beefeater $5 Bols Genever $12 Boodles $7 Junpero $10 Hendricks $9 Mar?n Millers $8 Old Raj $12 OOLA $8 Plymouth $7 Ransom Old Tom $9 Tanqueray No. 10 $9 Voyager Dry $7

Trader Vics Mai Tai

$9

light & dark rums, orange curaao, house-made orgeat, lime

Don the Beachcomber Mai Tai

$9

gold & dark rums, lime, grapefruit, orange curaao, falernum, biAers

Galaxy Gold

(Veronika Groth, Chinos, 2012) $9

apple brandy, demerara rum, maraschino, falernum, allspice, lime, biAers

Test Pilot

$9

dark Jamaican rum, light Puerto Rican rum, lime juice, falernum, cointreau, biAers, pernod

Tequila & Mezcal

Casa Noble Reposado $12 Cazadores Reposado $8 Corzo Silver $11 El Zacatecano Aejo Mezcal $13 Hornitos Reposado $8 Par?da Reposado $11 Sauza Blue Reposado $5 Sauza Hornitos Aejo $8

Navy Grog

$10

demerara & Jamaican rums, allspice liqueur, lime, grapefruit, honey syrup

Pago Pago

$10

gold Puerto Rican rum, pineapple, lime, green Chartreuse, white crme de cacao

Vodka
Bell Ringer $7 Belevedere $8 Chopin $8 Dry Fly $8 Monopolowa $5 OOLA $8 Stolichnaya $7 Titos $7

Fog Cutter

$11

Puerto Rican rum, brandy, gin, cream sherry, lemon, orange, orgeat

Painkiler

$12

Pussers rum, pineapple, orange, coconut cream, cinnamon, nutmeg

Zombie

$14

three types of rums, maraschino, falernum, lime grapefruit, house-made grenadine, biAers

Captains List
Rum
Appleton Special (Jamaica) $6 Appleton White (Jamaica) $5 Barbancourt Reserve 15 Year (Hai?) $7 Barbancourt Reserve 8 Year (Hai?) $15 Chairmans Reserve (St. Lucia) $7 Chairmans Reserve Silver (St. Lucia) $7 Cockspur Fine Rum (Barbados) $7 Diplom?co (Venezuela) $12 Flor de Caa 7 Year (Nicaragua) $8 Goslings Black Seal (Bermuda) $7 Lemon Hart 8 Year (Guyana) $7 Meyers Dark (Jamaica) $6 Mount Gay Extra (Barbados) $8 Pussers Navy Rum (Bri?sh V.I.) $8 Ron del Barrilito (Puerto Rico) $12 Ron Matusalem Gran Reserva (Dom. Rep.) $13 Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum (U.S. V.I.) $7 Smith & Cross Navy Rum (Jamaica) $9 Westerhall Planta?on Rum (Grenada) $9 Wray & Nephew Overproof (Jamaica) $5 Zaya (Trinidad) $9

Cocktails - Classic
Papa Doble Bertha
$8 $8

Cockspur rum, maraschino, lime, grapefruit

Sauza tequila, lime, house-made grenadine, grapefruit

Rye Old Fashioned

(Veronika Groth, Chinos, 2011) $8

Old Overholt rye, angostura biAers, house-made 5-spice muscovado cube

Between the Sheets Lions Tail

$9

$9

brandy, rum, cointreau, lemon

bourbon whiskey, allspice dram, lime juice, simple syrup, biAers

Suffering Bastard Singapore Sling

$11

bourbon, gin, lime, Rachels ginger beer, biAers

$11

Brazilian-Style Rum & Cachaa

Oronoco $14 Novo Fogo Gold $9 Novo Fogo Silver $9

gin, Cherry Heering, orange curaao, benedic?ne, fresh pineapple, lime, biAers, soda

Lil Peaty

(Veronika Groth, Chinos, 2012) $11

Rhum Agricole
Rhum Clment $12 Rhum J.M. $9 Neisson $24 St. James Extra Old $11 St. James Royal Amber $9

reposado tequila, lime, grapefruit, green Chartreuse, falernum, Cherry Heering, chocolate biAers, Laphroaig

Tail Spin

$12

gin, sweet vermouth, green Chartreuse, Campari

Ramos Gin Fizz

$14

OOLA gin, lemon, lime, cream, egg white, honey syrup, orange ower water

Cheap
SPARKLING

GLASS

1/2 CRF

CARAFE

BOTTLE

ZardeAo, Vino Spumante Brut Cuvee NV Marqus de Cceres, Rioja 2010 Campuget, Cos?eres de Nimes 2010 Xiloca, Garnacha 2009

$7 $8 $8 $9
GLASS

$22 $14 $14 $16

1/2 CRF

WHITE ROS RED

$21 $21 $24

CARAFE

$26 $26 $30

BOTTLE

Better
SPARKLING

Mont-Maral, Cava Brut Reserva 2008 Loimer, Lois Gruner Veltliner 2010 Argiolas, Isola Dei Nuraghi 2010 Torres, Ibericos Tempranillo 2008

$10 $12 $10 $11

GLASS

$32 $21 $17 $19

1/2 CRF

WHITE ROS RED

$31 $26 $29

CARAFE

$39 $32 $36

BOTTLE

Best
SPARKLING

Mont Marcal, Extremarium Cava Brut NV Selbach-Oster, Riesling Spatlese 2009 Les Domaniers, Cotes de Provence 2010 Condado de Haza, Ribera del Duero 2007

$14 $16 $14 $18 $28 $25 $32 $42 $37 $48

$45 $52 $45 $60

WHITE ROS RED

Draft Beer
Fremont Interurban IPA $5 Fishtale Wild Salmon Pale Ale $5.5 Chuckanut Pilsner $5.5 Chuckanut Dunkel $6

Sake
Crowd Pleasers
Shirakabe Gura Junmai SWEET g $8 Katana Extra Dry Ginjo DRY g $14 | b $45 Otokoyama Tokubetsu Junmai DRY b $56

Beer Cans
Rainier (tall boy) $3 Modelo Especial $3.5 Asahi B.A.C (1L) $10

Seasonal
Urakasumi Junmai Nama DRY g $17 | b $70 Sawanoi Junmai Nama DRY g $18 | b $72

Traditional
Kiku-Masamune Taru DRY g $11 | b $18

Beer Bottles
Pacico (shorty) $2.5 Victoria $4 Bohemia $4 Tsingtao $4.5 Taiwan Beer (650ml) $9

Unfiltered
Sho Chiku Bai Nigori SWEET g $8 | b $14

Non-Alcoholic
Coca Cola products $2 Mocktail (tell us whats your avor) $4 Rachels Ginger Beer $6