Opened October 15th, 2022.

There are two distinct Trader Vic's spaces at the Palm Jumeirah property including a Trader Vic’s restaurant and bar and a Tahitian Village beach club.

The Trader Vic's Restaurant is modern and sleek, lined with an impressive row of carved tikis upon entering and a massive bar with a huge chandelier overhead.

Unique features include a concrete wall in the dining area with hundreds of glass fish floats embedded in it and lit from the other side.

The Tahitian Village is an outdoor space overlooking the beach and features resort-style relaxed food and beverages including frozen Tiki Puka Pukas. Throughout the day guests have access to a fresh fruit bar and as the sun sets, the venue hosts international DJs and more.

Opened @2021.

This space was formerly RamaPong (ramen and ping pong) but switched it up during the pandemic and while they still served ramen, their theme became tropical/goth with a full menu of tiki cocktails (both traditional and originals) served in tiki mugs.

The decor was a bit minimalistic without the layers of Polynesian carvings and artwork you might see at older classical tiki bars, but it was dark and well-lit with mood lighting and they had lots of skeletons and fake foliage as well as some netting on the ceiling and some bamboo/reed fencing wrapped around the main bar.

Closed October 3rd, 2023.

Opened March 30th, 2017.

Navy Strength is a proto-tiki, tropical, and travel-influenced cocktail bar with a full kitchen.

Just to elaborate on ""proto-tiki" -- their decor is minimalistic without the layers of tiki carvings and art you might find at more traditional tiki establishments. They do not claim to be a tiki bar, but certainly tiki influenced. They do use tiki mugs and there are some small carvings and pieces throughout.

The ceiling and adjacent walls do have lots of variated wood planking that puts one in mind of a ship's hull, however, and looking about, you'll spot lengths and coils of ship's rope that makes it seem like you are embarking on some sort of naval voyage. A definite nautical bent as the bar's name would imply.

Their food and drink menu does rotate to some extent, to highlight different countries around the world, so depending on when you visit, you may have very different options. There does appear to be a standard cocktail menu (see below) of tiki favorites, however.

Drinks and food from 4 PM until 12 AM. Closed Sundays and Mondays.

Like many popular nightspots of the day, Leon and Eddie's began as a speakeasy. In its case it started in 1928, in the basement of a converted house at 18 West 52nd (for a $700 investment) and could take as many as 30 customers at a time.

They later moved across the street to 33 W. 52nd after the end of Prohibition in 1933. Their new quarters had a retractable roof, rising stage and room for 475 customers. This retractable roof allowed air flow in a time before air conditioning was common. Like many places that became sweltering hot in the summer, they advertised a "Summer Garden" with open air flow from the roof that made dancing a possibility without everyone fainting from heat exhaustion. It was this Summer Garden that offered a pre-tiki atmosphere complete with (fake) swaying coconut palms. Advertising materials also featured dancing girls made up like hula dancers -- offering the exotic veneer to their otherwise normal bump and grind burlesque.

One of the most famous burlesque performers to perform there was Sherry Britton, who performed regularly for at least 7 years.

Leon & Eddie's was one of the more reputable spots on this block known for hot jazz, strippers and mob-run clip joints. Unlike its fabled neighbor '21', Leon and Eddies did not cultivate celebrities and socialites through a policy of exclusivity. This was a rowdy joint patronized by local businessmen and out-of-towners who enjoyed the bawdy humor, singalongs, vaudeville-like revue and strippers the club featured. It was very well-known, being frequently mentioned in the press or in magazines.

The sign out front of the club said "Leon and Eddie" without the apostrophe s. Another sign at the door was a takeoff on the famous Earl Carroll slogan and read "Through these portals, the most beautiful girls in the world pass out!" A sign posted over the swinging kitchen doors stated “Through these portals pass the most beautiful waiters in the world!" The walls were covered with tongue-in-cheek murals. On either end of the back wall, Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis thumbed their noses at each other in caricature. The gravel-voiced Davis was the face of the place and frequently performed his repertoire of risque songs.

The club did not last long into the postwar period. Leon and Eddie dissolved their partnership in 1947. Charlie Davis kept it going until his retirement in 1953 when Toots Shor, who had been day manager, and some say part-time bouncer, at Leon and Eddie's in its early years, opened a restaurant at the site.

Opened May 23rd, 2019.

This bar is located in Des Moines' Historic East Village.

The decor is not the usual Trader Vic's and Don the Beachcomber dark and moody environment with layers of bamboo, lauhala matting, and carvings. "Our mood was Brooklyn Diner-meets-Palm Springs hotel lobby," said co-owner, Nick Tillinghast. "Because the bones are industrial and brick, we didn't want to lose that completely. We wanted to meet somewhere in the middle." One entire wall is wallpapered in a tropical leaf pattern. Another wall also has tropical leaves but in a rainbow of different neon lights. The central bartop and matching tables are white laminate with chrome trim. These are matched by diner-style bar seats upholstered in different colors.

Behind the bar it is all business with an excellent assortment of rums and their menu features a good assortment of both classic tiki cocktails and their own signature libations.

Opened December 9th, 2020.

This location has a colorful mural wrapped around the exterior. The inside is decorated in classic fashion with some Bosko carvings, shell lamps, and much more.

Opened August 12th, 2022.

Hades Hula House took over the old Candy Bar beneath the cinema on Hindley Street. This was a move from the previous Hades Hula House location at 52 Semaphore ROAD, Semaphore, South Australia (February 2018 - May 2022).

This new location was larger, but a bit more modern and sparse in its decor.

As always, they opened their arms to an inclusive community and had a loyal fan base that packed out the new location just as they did the old.

Hades Hula House permanently closed on Dec 30th 2023.

Open at least as early as 1967 but might have been built earlier, closer to 1960.

This huge A-Frame store carried all sorts of exotic goods, including gifts, sportswear, and gourmet food from all over the globe.

It had a statue of the trader himself on the roofline below the peak of the A-frame.

Mentioned in the book, Tiki Pop, by Sven Kirsten -- page 102 -- as having multiple locations. One other location, perhaps the best recognized, was in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

Opened in 1960, Honeymoon Haven was located in the Pocono Mountains at Viking Heights -- Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania.

They catered exclusively to honeymooners with "modern and colonial cottages...step down living room...canopy bed...wall-to-wall carpeting...all-stone fireplace...radiant heated bathroom with sunken tub...sun tan in your own bathroom...television."

The resort also offered "All indoor and outdoor sports...New indoor pool and solarium...New twin heart outdoor pool...bowling alleys...New ski tow...Polynesian cocktail lounge...and beauty salon."

Honeymoon Heaven ran until 1972, when it was purchased for re-development and became, as it is presently, The Pocono Environmental Education Center -- offering guided nature trips and overnight cabins.

Opened in 1974.

From the August 22, 1974 Chicago Tribune:

"A Polynesian restaurant tucked away in a little shopping center called White Plains. Unusually good food in the Chinese-Cantonese tradition accented with an occasional American touch such as steak with salad and french fries. Soft and soothing background taped music of Hawaii. Interior design, overall ambiance remindful of all the other Polynesian restaurants that you've visited in the States, including Hawaii. But why Northbrook for so many restaurants? Isn't there a satiation point? ECHOING comments of many other restaurateurs of the area was Wally Chin's emphatic 'This is a going community! New homes are going up; new industries coming in.' Mr. Chin, who is co-owner of Kahala Terrace with his brother, Bob Chin, points to a developing industrial park across the highway from the Kahala. Easy access to Northbrook via Edens Expressway, and elimination of parking problems also are positive factors. FARTHER NORTH at County Line and Lee Roads in Northbrook, a proposed courtyard of nationality restaurants in a prestigious shopping area that will include Neiman-Marcus and Lord and Taylor specialty stores and a Sears Roebuck department store, is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1975. Blueprints for the p r o j e c t Northbrook Court also call for parks, small lakes, and condominiums on the 130-acre property. Although many of the residents of the area are vehemently protesting the mammoth project, construction presently is continuing.

Owners of Kahala Terrace are not newcomers to the suburbs. After a year as maitre d' at Kon Tiki Ports in the Sheraton-Chicago. 505 N. Michigan Av., Wally Chin operated Chan's Tea House in Highland Park for 10 years. Bob Chin continues as owner of the House of Chan, a catering establishment in Wilmette, and now manages catering facilities for the Kahala also. Barmaids at the Kahala, which specializes in exotic mixed drinks, are Wally's daughter, Judy, and Bob's daughter, Marilyn, fresh from bartending school. Restauranteuring, in fact, is a way of life for the Chin family. Wally and Bob's brother, Henry, is proprietor of the House of Chinn, an excellent Cantonese restaurant at 6355 N. Western Av. A FOURTH brother, Howard, operates New Wilson Village, a surprisingly good restaurant in a shabby old block at 1120-22 Wilson Av., established by the brothers' parents some 40 years ago.

Evening specialty of the house is the Kahala version of a Polynesian Iuau at $7.50 per person, beginning with soup or juice and a platter of appetizers egg rolls, crab rangoon, shrimp, barbecued ribs, pineapple in chicken. Six main courses that change daily, always including beef, chicken, and seafood dishes, are arranged at an elaborate self-help buffet."

Despite this overall good opening review and the bonafides of Wally as a maitre d' at Kon Tiki Ports, the interior of the restaurant screams 70s tiki devolution with the lack of decor, the 70s flower print cushions on the rattan chairs, the exposed brickwork, and the cedar shingles in lieu of proper thatching.

Ads show that Kahala Terrace was open at least as late as 1983.

NOTES:

*Bob Chin lived to be 99 and died April 15th, 2022. His biggest and best known restaurant was Bob Chinn's Crab House in Chicago, which he started in 1982. It would be his 14th restaurant and the longest lasting. He served the same mai-tais there that he did at the Kahala Terrace location.

**As of 2022, the location of Kahala Terrace is now home to a FastSigns print shop.

Opened May 19th, 2012.

The design of this bar was a collaboration with input from renowned tiki carver, Marcus Thorn (a.k.a. Tiki Beat).

It was Perth’s only portside tiki bar, serving more than 20 different types of cocktails, as well as three of its own speciality cocktails, made with Newport Spiced Rum.

Drinks were served in green-glazed tiki mugs modeled after a carving by Marcus Thorn (seen with pinup model Masuimi Max below from a photoshoot), adding to the bar’s overall ambience.

It was located within the Newport Hotel (The Newy), on the corner of South Terrace, at the end of Fremantle’s busy cafe strip.

The Newport Hotel closed December 24th, 2021 for a major rebrand into Flight Club social darts venue. Tiki Beat was closed as well.

Located across from the Cozumel ferry terminal, Cocomama Tiki Room Bar was started in 2020 as a mocktails only concept, but then later they associated with the Casa del Habano bar which allowed them to make drinks with alcohol as well.

The bar had bamboo decor and featured tropical-inspired cocktails served in locally made tiki mugs as well as food dishes such as guacamole, ceviche, and fish tacos.

It was well received both by the islanders, as well as by the tourists who cross from Playa del Carmen and those who arrive mainly on cruise ships.

House specialty cocktails included the Cocomama, Thousand Special, and the Astral Trip.

*NOTE: According to Spike's Breezeway (see their youtube tour in links below), Cocomama's is now closed. They appear to have been open through February of 2025.