Partners Eric Rozestraten, Dan Herzog, and Kelly McDonald, opened the Easy Sailor Tiki Bar on Park Avenue in Rochester on Tuesday, August 26th, 2025.

The bar is a speakeasy of sorts with a false room at the front made to look like a travel agency with a postcard mural on the wall advertising Paradise just a short trip away.

The interior bar just beyond is well-named as it tilts nautical heavy and tiki light. However, aside from the thatching over the bar and the multicolored hanging swag lamps, there are also some tiki masks on the opposite wall.

More memorable "set pieces" include the fiberglass red octopus on the far side of the room and the fiberglass shark hanging further down the wall.

They have an original array of tropical cocktails and serve drinks in tiki mugs.

Opened December 7th, 2022 at UE Square, bringing Tipsy Collective’s animal kingdom concepts to a total of six.

This gastrobar was located in a mall and offered Hawaiian cuisine and tiki inspired craft cocktails.

Layout was open, offering half indoor and half outdoor seating.

Opened by co-founders David Gan and Derek Ong, and located along one of the most popular nightlife areas in Singapore.

Closed July 28th, 2024.

Opened May 7th, 2024 at the Waikiki, Peninsula Grand Hotel, Andheri East.

Created by the Peninsula Hospitality Group.

This two-storeyed contemporary dining restaurant and tiki bar exemplifies modern high concept.

Unlike traditional tiki bars which have layers of artifacts and artwork, Waikiki depends on a few large statement pieces bolstered by prints and patterns to lend support.

They have one significant tiki statue in the restaurant that is covered in gold and also serves as a backdrop for the DJ booth which is active nights and weekends.

The center of the dining area has a glass chandelier sculpture (supposed to resemble an upside down volcano).

The overall sense of the decor is being enveloped in a swath of carefully chosen textiles and fabrics with tropical leaf wallpaper, animal skin prints, and leafy plants featuring prominently for a tropical vibe.

There are also some interesting nature motifs at play, including some stained glass window images of dragonflies. More dragonflies and butterflies are also worked into a mosaic wall on the backbar.

Food is Hawaiian inspired Pan Asian fusion.

Waikiki also features a carefully curated cocktail menu by renowned consultant mixologist Karl Fernandes.

Opened October 2nd, 2025.

This relatively small bar has an indoor dining area with bench and table seating framed by large shaded windows and tropical leaf wallpaper punctuated by a few carefully placed tiki masks.

They also feature outdoor seating.

Small curated menu of about a dozen cocktails and a backbar with a good representation of Planteray, Real McCoy, and other fine rums...and they also have zero proof mocktail options using Lyre’s Non-Alcoholic products.

Chin's was one of the many already established Chinese restaurants that jumped on the Pop Polynesian bandwagon to help bring in customers.

Chin's was the oldest Chinese restaurant in Western New York, established in 1933. Paul G.E. Wong purchased the business in 1949 and ran it as a family business until he retired in 1977. The family continued to run it for several years afterward until the closing in 2018.

They specialized in Cantonese cuisine, but postcards from around 1977 show their exterior lounge and advertising highlighting "Chin's Islander Lounge Chinese Polynesian also American Foods and Exotic Drinks".

Their earlier Red Dragon logo from 1950s menus appears to have been replaced with the Polynesian emphasis.

Today, as of 2025, the space is home to Coco Bar & Bistro (French food and burgers).

Additionally, Chin's appears to have had two younger sister restaurants with the same name at the other end of Lake Erie, in Cleveland, Ohio (one at 3042 St. Clair Avenue and one at 10613 Euclid Avenue).

Named after the popular television show, Hawaiian Eye (1959-1963), this steakhouse with tropical decor and cocktails featured some impressive Milan Guanko tikis out front.

It was short-lived, however, from about 1963-1964.

Opened September 11th, 2024.

This large space measures 500 m2. Seating for 100. Secluded location close to the center with free parking. Outdoor grill and bar & lounge. Can be rented out for group or corporate events.

In addition to Hawaiian scenes, the walls are covered with other exotic scenes as well, with Aztec pyramids and Cambodian ruins, etc...

This tiki bar opened in Chengdu, China in February of 2024.

It has a lavish interior build-out with giant masks on the back walls, rope netting across the ceiling, thatching, rattan furniture, and a huge inventory of rum and other spirits on hand.

Located at Unit 110, 1 / F, Tower 2, Shangri-La Center, 9 East Binjiang Road, Chengdu, China.

Opened in 1980 by Henry Creuzot and named after his wife, Esther.

It was previously a couple of stand-alone hotels that were acquired by the owners, who connected everything by building a huge atrium over the top of the grounds and creating gardens around the pools, etc.

Esther's established itself as a great weekend party destination for the locals because where else could you immerse yourself in the tropics during those harsh Northern winters, short of taking an actual plane trip?

This 126-room-hotel featured tons of plants (especially in its atrium area), skylights, indoor pools with waterslides, and 5 jacuzzis. The main atrium was HUGE, with gardens dotted by bridges, masks, and tikis in addition to the pools and jacuzzis.

As far as decor, they were able to acquire many pieces from The Outrigger (later The Bamboo House) after it closed. Among these was an outrigger canoe and some of the tikis at the entrance to their Tradewinds Restaurant.

Their "Esther's Monsoon Lounge" was sandwiched in between their Tradewinds Restaurant and the main entrance/atrium. It featured Oceanic Arts masks on the walls which appear to have made it through the remodeling to its current incarnation.

Their Tradewinds Restaurant and its Orchid Dining Room also had a large outdoor "gazebo" under a thatch roof overlooking the atrium gardens.

The hotel was later remodeled @2014 and is now a Super 8.

Although it has lost much of its earlier charm, there are still tiki details to be found, and some of the masks remain on the walls.

Opened in early 1957, this pre-tiki nightclub is associated with one of the most notorious Southern California mob murders from the era.

The same year as the nightclub's opening, on March 9, 1957, Leslie Simpson was robbed at the South Seas, by a small group of gun-toting outlaws. Simpson was able to identify Joseph “Little Caesar” Rosoto as one of the bandits – because of Rosoto’s distinctive limp.

Rosoto was later charged with the armed robbery of Simpson at the South Seas bar, and his trial was set for April 20, 1959.

Rosoto, a known mobster, was not about to go down on a robbery beef. The little (5-foot-1) gangster hired his bodyguard, John “The Big Fisherman” Vlahovich (6-foot-7), and Donald Glen Franklin, a burly loner, to murder Simpson to keep him off the witness stand.

Leslie Simpson was returning with his wife, Fern, to their Anaheim home early one morning (February 7, 1959) when out of darkness came a menacing figure.

A shotgun-wielding assailant ended Simpson’s life with a blast from close range. Fern saved herself by throwing up her arms to protect herself, but both of her hands were blown off.

It was a headline-making case from the beginning, but when Anaheim police detectives discovered the sinister motive for gunning down the 46-year-old Simpson, it became one of the most notorious cases in Orange County history.

With the star witness dead, Rosoto was eventually acquitted of the robbery charge.

However, Rosoto was in bigger trouble. Rosoto, Vlahovich and Franklin were arrested for Simpson’s murder. In 1960, the trio was convicted and sentenced to death.

They were once just 20 minutes from execution in 1964, but a last-hour reprieve saved their lives. Eventually their sentences were commuted to life in prison. All three were paroled in 1975 after serving only 16 years for first-degree murder.

In 1978, Rosoto was bludgeoned to death at his home in San Gabriel. No one was ever charged...

...and in the meantime, the South Seas survived, at least for a time, purchased by Viviane Laird who was already known for her other locations like the Garden of Allah, Bohemia, and The Brass Rail.

It closed not long after, though.

The Island Shop was located in the center of the historic shopping Arcade in Ojai, California.

Circa 1960s.

They advertised: "Colorful, exotic gifts from far-away places. Bamboo and rattan furniture of rare decorator char. Ladies apparel to fit this background. Southern California's most unique shop. Also, pet and patio supplies and COMPLETE SPORTS SHOP."

Run by Claudia and Doug Jordan.