The story of how Mama’s founders Doris and Floyd Christenson moved to Maui is a classic Island tale. When Floyd and Doris watched spectacular sunsets south of the equator, the Bali Hai was the happy hour cocktail that they enjoyed—and the Bali Hai is the name of the cocktail I’m now drinking at their restaurant over half a century later. In the twenty-first century, at Mama’s, the refreshing, bright and floral Tahitian lime juice is shaken with ice, but Karen Christenson—Mama’s vice president and daughter of Floyd and Doris—confides, “You know, there wasn’t any ice during those South Pacific days.”