So you’re going for a drink this evening, it is a school night but someone at work brought in cake this afternoon and your boss let you leave half an hour early so there’s a kick in your step! All that is left is to gently twist the arm of a friend so you can “go somewhere fun tonight... have a coupla cocktails?” Well, I can suggest the perfect location to re-enact this exciting scene – Lola Lo on Fredrick St.

As you descend the steps, past fluorescent lighting into rooms decked out like a beach hut, you realise this is no ordinary cocktail bar. Puffer fish dangle from the ceiling and knowing smiles flicker across Tiki statues declaring that this is unpretentious fun at its most frivolous. My friend and I headed to the bar where the bartenders were happy to recommend some of their favourite concoctions.

Our first choice was a Captain Coconut, a cocktail which is cheerfully served in a frozen coconut. It combines two kinds of rum but isn’t too overpowering as the passion fruit and lime are mixed to take the edge off. It is refreshing and fruity and we found we had a couple of empty coconuts in front of us in no time!

We moved on to a sharer as we couldn't resist the novelty of the Easter Island-esque Tiki Gods bowl. The Daddy Digga Digga Doo has five, yes five, different spirits all mixed with lime juice and cola. Even though this has a tidal swell of spirits it may simply remind you of a certain totally tropical soft drink.

Before I left I felt the urge to try perhaps the most famous (infamous?) Polynesian cocktail, the Zombie. It possesses the potent Wray and Nephew Rum which is conspicuous by its punchy, spicy and treacle flavours. Again this is a fruity and easy to drink thirst quencher so consider this a cautionary tale.