Hell or High Water Tiki

Denver, Colorado, United States

Opened July 1st, 2022.

This was not what anyone would describe as your usual tiki bar.

The owners (Lexi Healy and Veronica Ramos) opened Hell or High Water Tiki a mere six months after opening their first bar (The Electric Cure in Edgewater, CO).

Lexi described it as, "A gay pirate ship meets Land of the Lost with phallic and bird undertones."

It didn't have any traditional tiki totems, either. "We don't do any tiki totems because we don't want to step on any other culture's toes, so we don't have masks and we don't have tiki mugs that are totems," Healy explained. "There are people in the tiki community that say if you don't have masks or totems, you're not tiki."

In response, Healy commissioned a Las Vegas artist to make a "five-foot dick totem" for the new bar. "It's as tall as me," she noted.

*NOTE: In social media, the bar announced their closing for January 11th, 2026 with re-assurances they would be re-locating to a new location some time in 2026...