This classic Trader Vic's location operated in the Benson Hotel for many years: from 1959 until 1996. The location is now a steakhouse named El Gaucho.

Trader Vic's returned to Portland with a new Pearl District location, which opened in June 2011 and closed in March 2016.

Open from 1951 to 1994.

Cosmo Place is actually an alley. The unusual location didn't stop the San Francisco Trader Vic's from becoming a powerful center for city nightlife. In fact, in 1983, Queen Elizabeth II had her very first experience eating out at a restaurant here. (She had a Tanqueray gin martini.) This Trader Vic's location closed in 1994, and the space then hosted a popular French Vietnamese restaurant, Le Colonial, for 26 years, before closing in 2024. As of 2025, the location is in development...

This location opened in 1962 and closed in 1990.

It was well-known for, among other things, the large Barney West Bird Man carving in front. This carving was auctioned off after the close, donated by the new lease-holder of the building, Eric Denk, to the Scottsdale Junior Arts Forum as a fundraiser for their annual masked ball.

Eric re-named the location "Eric's Tradewinds", in an attempt to continue the Polynesian theme, but his effort was short-lived. Remaining interior decor was reportedly given to the Scottsdale Conference Resort for luaus.

Since 2011 and as of 2025, this location is home to Citizen Public House, an upscale gastropub.

*1969-1991 at the Washington Plaza Hotel (Westin) at 1900 5th Avenue.

The location at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Seattle was the second Trader Vic's, after the Oakland location. It was located at 1980 5th Avenue.

It opened in 1948 and originally it was called The Outrigger (a sub-chain within the Trader Vic's chain that lasted several years) but the name changed in 1960 to just Trader Vic's. This location stayed open until it moved its Seattle branch to the nearby brand new south cylindrical tower of the Washington Plaza Hotel (now the Westin) in 1969. The Benjamin Franklin Hotel was demolished later on 07/1980 to make way for the matching north cylindrical tower of the Washington Plaza (Westin).

Trader Vic's expansion within the Washington Plaza Hotel (Westin) gave it much increased seating space. Manager Harry Wong touted the variety of new seating arrangements. The Polynesian decor was planned by San Francisco design team Chan-Reader and Associates, which specialized in Trader Vic's interiors.

The Trader Vic's at the Washington Plaza Hotel (Westin) closed in June 1991.

This Trader Vic's location operated from 1993 until around the latter half of 2010.

Opened in 1961.

The 500-seat restaurant-bar opened only a few years after Vancouver allowed hard liquor to be sold in public.

This Trader Vic's was located in the Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina, in an A-frame building designed by architect Reno Negrin.

The Long House Room had a high-pitched ceiling covered with thatched raffia; four long boats and an ornate canoe which was suspended above the diners’ heads. The ceiling light fixtures were concealed in thatched baskets, and in colored globes wrapped in fishnets. Numerous wood tribal masks and large conch shells concealed uplighting fixtures. Tribal shields, spears, carved poles, bamboo screens and Chinese-design wrought iron panels completed the decor.

It closed on December 31, 1995. The bar was still popular though, and the restaurant was rented out for special events until the building finally closed in May, 1999.

After closing, the Bayshore sold the building to David Whiffin of Vancouver Island and he had the structure transported there, where it still rests today. Plans to re-open the building as part of a waterfront vineyard in the new location near Butchart Gardens were quickly scuttled by the local municipality, however. A Kickstarter was started to try and finance a new start for the building, but it went nowhere, and David ended up living there for a time. As of 2026, it remains where it was moved, quietly abandoned...

Opened in 1970.

This was the International Market Place Trader Vic's. There was another Trader Vic's in Hawaii prior to this, on Ward Avenue in Honolulu.

Closed in 1990.

This Trader Vic's was inside the Statler Hilton (now the Capital Hilton). It operated from 1961 until 1995.

Among its many decorations were two large moai carvings with top-knots outside the front entrance that were created by Barney West.

This Trader Vic's was a major center for politicians for many years; president Richard Nixon reportedly loved to drink Navy Grogs here.

This Trader Vic's location opened in the New Otani Hotel Singapore in 1984. It closed sometime around 2002.

The New Otani was in one of the two twin 25-storey towers used as hotel and service apartments, the other being the Liang Court Regency.

Entering the millennium, the New Otani was then sold and became Accor Hotels, and later renamed Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay.

Novotel was closed permanently in 2021 as a result of the Covid Pandemic.

This Trader Vic's location opened in the Hilton Berlin in 2003. It closed on March 28, 2009.

This Trader Vic's was located in the Shamrock Hilton from 1965-1986, at the southwest corner of Main Street and Bellaire Boulevard (West Holcombe Boulevard after 1963).

The Shamrock was a hotel constructed between 1946 and 1949 by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy southwest of downtown Houston, Texas next to the Texas Medical Center. It was the largest hotel built in the United States during the 1940s. The grand opening of the Shamrock is still cited as one of the biggest social events ever held in Houston. Sold to Hilton Hotels in 1955 and operated for over three decades as the Shamrock Hilton, the facility endured financial struggles throughout its history. In 1985, Hilton Hotels donated the building to the Texas Medical Center and the structure was demolished on June 1, 1987.

The founder of the Trader Vic's chain, Victor Jules Bergeron, is interred with his wife Helen in the Mausoleum at Mountain View Cemetery. You will find them on the bottom floor at about eye level, near the west-facing end entrance. If you visit, be sure to bring some menehunes to leave in remembrance.

On the second floor of the same Mausoleum, Henry J. Kaiser is interred. Henry J. Kaiser's connection to tiki is that he built the Kaiser Aluminum Dome, where Arthur Lyman's albums were recorded, and the Hawaiian Village, which was later purchased by the Hilton chain.