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Hot and cool desert beverages


“It’s a fun place to come and be,” says Jamie. “People love it. They appreciate the history and decor.”


Co-owners and founders, Jamie Kowal and Chris Pardo. Bootlegger Tiki offers the best happy hours around. I


f you’re looking for a taste of home while you’re on holidays in Palm Springs, or perhaps a sip, why not visit Ernest Coffee and Bootlegger Tiki. Tis hopping coffee shop and tiki bar has a Winnipeg connection.


Part-owner, Jamie Kowal, was born in Winnipeg and with a number of family members still here, she often returns home to enjoy some good old Manitoba summers at her family’s cottage in Winnipeg Beach which has been in her family for four generations. It was love at first sight for Jamie on a family holiday


in Palm Springs. She was smitten by the desert and as an accomplished photographer she knew she would have no shortage of amazing sites to photograph if she remained here. To support her income she found an apartment com- plex and renovated it into a successful, boutique hotel, Te Amado. Between the hotel and her photography career,


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shooting the likes of Reese Witherspoon and Justin Tim- berlake, life was busy enough. But fate still had more in store for her. After having difficulty one afternoon trying to find a cof-


fee shop to meet her friend, Chris Pardo, they laughingly joked that they should open up their own. Chris, an archi- tect who had recently moved to Palm Springs from Seattle had experience as a developer and restaurateur. Taking their jest to heart, he called Jamie the next day to check out what would become the location of their coffee shop and tiki bar. An ideal locale


Te spot Chris was talking about turned out to be none other than what was once the popular Don the Beachcomb- er Restaurant, which had originally opened in 1953. Lo- cated in the Uptown Design District with no coffee shops for blocks, it was an ideal place.


The Hub


All photos provided by Ernest Coffee and Bootlegger Tiki.


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