Opened August of 2024.

The Maya SpeakTiki is a speakeasy style space located in the Agave Bandido restaurant and accessed through a secret door that appears to be storing bottles of wine & tequila.

The interior has tiki-ish lighting with tiki style lamps hanging from the ceiling, faux rock walls, carved tiki poles on the bar, bamboo & thatch hut booths, and a far wall covered in skulls and with spacious booth seating for larger parties.

Other than the tiki poles at the bar, though, there aren't really any other tiki decorations or Polynesian artifacts in the rest of the space like you would find layered throughout a classic tiki bar. But they advertise as more of a Mayan hybrid location, so that is to be expected...

However, the Mayan/Aztec/Meso-American theme is also lacking. Their theme leads one to look around for Aztec carvings, jaguars, or maybe a Quetzalcoatl serpent that would fulfill the expectation for a "tiki hybrid" location, but there are none of those set pieces or artworks. Just a few Day of the Dead themed throw-pillows in a couple of the booths.

The overall room is well done, and the ceiling is well filled-in with rope and netting and plants and fish floats, but it has a lot of "empty space" on the walls that are begging for finishing touches.

The cocktail menu is set up like a fun treasure map with cocktails along the way. Their theme of Meso-American Jungle Adventure is well reflected in the drink titles and menu.

Reports are that their bar swings more toward tequila and bourbon than rum... so dedicated rummies may be somewhat underwhelmed by their offerings.

The Hawaiian Village was an area and a recurring weekend event at the Howard Johnson hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Although belonging to the chain of orange-roofed Howard Johnson hotels, this location had a unique space and event.

The hotel advertised 150 guest rooms, a Mai-Tai Cocktail Lounge indoors by their pool, a Lamplighter Restaurant, the aforementioned indoor pool as well as an outdoor pool, and a game room.

Tickets were advertised and sold for dinner luaus by the outside pool. The Mai-Tai indoor bar also went into overdrive during these weekend events.

This is the second location for Hell or High Water Tiki, originally located on Blake Street.

Opened mid May of 2026.

As with their first location, this is not what anyone would describe as your usual tiki bar. Tiki adjacent, perhaps.

The owners (Lexi Healy and Veronica Ramos) describe it as, "A gay pirate ship meets Land of the Lost with phallic and bird undertones."

It doesn'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 explains. "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 bar. "It's as tall as me," she noted.

This new Walnut Street location at 3542 Walnut St Denver, CO 80205 opened for business mid May of 2026.

It is a larger space and you enter through a separate bar in front with pool tables called the Glory Hole.

Much of the old decor from the first location made the move, but there are additions as well, including a huge faceted mirror "Disco Dick" hanging from the ceiling.

The menu has also been updated with a few changes.

Opened July 24th, 2026 at 946 Penn Ave. in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District by partners Andy Tepper and Steve Zumoff.

Guests enter through a Volcano Village, marked on an island map created by Zumoff.

Zumoff is also co-owner of Tiki Bar in Pittsburgh, which has been around since 2002 and caters to a college crowd.

Spork Island, Zumoff and his partner envisioned as a classic more fully-adult and elevated tiki bar.

Zumoff, Tepper and their team spent more than a year renovating the 4,300-square-foot space on Penn Avenue into a 100-seat tiki bar, with the idea every area would be a distinct concept. A sunken, 1970s-style conversation pit gets a tiki twist with crushed-orange velvet seating surrounding an indoor fire pit. A winding jungle pathway connects booths enveloped by palms. California tiki carver “Crazy Al” Evans carved a Spork-themed tiki, while designer “Bamboo Ben” Bassham and his son built the volcano. A 16-person party room pays tribute to legendary Hawaiian entertainer Don Ho.

Spork Island serves yakitori, or Japanese meat skewers cooked over charcoal. Installing a specialized binchotan charcoal grill required a ventilation hood unlike any previously approved by the city, Zumoff and Tepper said.

Chef Ray Spencer, most recently chef de cuisine at Hyeholde Restaurant, created a menu of shareable dishes with pan-Asian and tropical influences.

Spork Island has received great criticism for their use of AI generative art on their logo sign, a couple of interior movie posters, and their temporary menu. In the grand scheme of the build-out, these may be minor details, but they are very visible. The owners have responded that they are in the process of changing over the menus and that they are still-fine-tuning the restaurant and ask for the grace and patience that customers would normally afford a new tiki establishment trying to find its footing in its beginning months...

Mesozoic Tiki Bar & Lounge is a dinosaur-themed tiki bar located at 97 Main Street in downtown Nashua, New Hampshire.

It officially opened on August 20, 2026.

The bar features a prehistoric paradise theme with detailed dinosaur-inspired decorations and a stage for weekend live music.

Although they call themselves a "Tiki Bar" there is a distinct lack of tikis save for a few tiki mugs (and maybe one Indonesian style tiki mask on a pole across from the bar). There is thatching, and tropical wallpaper, and the expected dark tiki-ish mood lighting, and they serve tiki standard cocktails amongst their signature drinks (mai-tai, navy grog, and scorpion bowl). However, the dinosaur theme has edged out actual tikis and Polynesian artwork that you would expect to find at an authentic tiki bar -- pushing this bar into more of a "tiki adjacent" category.

Still, it looks like they are off to a good start and have excellent reviews so far.

This restaurant was located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It opened in early January of 1976, advertising a "Tahiti Bar. Wreck Lounge. Exotic drinks."

It lasted until 1981, possibly longer.

This grab-'n-go style Trader Vic's "Outpost" opened in the Oakland Airport on August 28th, 2026.

Terminal 2. Gate 25

This restaurant ran from about 1968 - 1974 and served Chinese, Polynesian, and "Canadian" food.

The interior bar had a thatched roof, walls were covered with bamboo, and the front of the bar was decorated with tiki masks.

Built in 1961.

This 1-story development has 315 units.

It also has colorful modernist Mondrian-colored glass panels in its A-frame rec-room. These rectangles are echoed on the gates.

This same A-frame was featured in Sven Kirsten's book, Tiki Modern.

It appears the original sign with torches has been replaced, but the fact that they have kept the name and so much has survived through to 2026 at the time of this entry is astonishing.

This pre-tiki nightclub was a sister location to the more famous Club Pago Pago in Honolulu, which preceded it.

This California location appears to have run during the 1950s, perhaps as early as 1948.

This pre-tiki bar and nightclub ran through the 1940s-50s and was a huge destination for servicemen, especially for dancing.

Advertised an "authentic Samoan bar garden amid coco palms and South Sea atmosphere".

According to ashtray advertising, appears to have had a sister location later in Colton, California.

This is Damon's first location and was opened in 1937 at 118 S. Central Avenue in Glendale.

It closed in 1980 and the 118 South Central location was torn down to make way for the Glendale Galleria II. The Glendale Galleria expansion, commonly referred to as Galleria II or the Nordstrom wing, officially opened in 1983 as the mall's first major addition following its 1976 debut.

The current Damon's location, at 317 N. Brand, opened in 1980.