Tiki Bars
Restaurant Tahiti
Châteauguay, Quebec, Canada
This restaurant was reportedly remodeled as of 2013 and little of its original decor survived.
Below you can see a photo of the bar with thatching and more decor surrounding it, and then the stripped bare and remodeled version.
Despite the stark white walls, there are some masks and other decorations still throughout, however.
Htel-Motel Coconut
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Htel-Motel Coconut has been owned by the Landry family since it opened in 1958, and became Polynesian-themed in 1963 after the owners went on an inspirational honeymoon in Tahiti. In addition to the hotel, there are two lounges: the Coconut Bar and in 2015 a second lounge was added, Volcano. Coconut Bar has more traditional and immersive decor, while Volcano is more lightly themed but bathed in all-red light. However, the Coconut Bar has incongruous modern music, while Volcano has the more relaxing lounge sounds one wants in a tiki bar.
Restaurant Aloha
Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada (Closed)
Restaurant Aloha opened in 1978. The wide restaurant had a narrow A-frame entrance; sometime between 2007 and 2011 the entrance was stripped of much of its tiki charm, but the bar at Aloha still had thatch and beachcomber lamps, and the restaurants still served flaming Pu Pu Platters and a "Flamme Tahitienne" in a volcano bowl. The restaurant closed in late 2014.
Hawaii Kai - Montréal
Côte-Des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-De-Grâce, Montréal, Quebec, Canada (Closed)
Opened in 1963.
This Polynesian-themed bar was part of Bill Wong's Restaurant, but all traces of its tiki history were erased during a 1998 remodel into "Billie's Bar," a bland, generic update.
Today this location is home to a vacant building (newly built around 2000) that is available for retail or restaurant lease as of 2021.
Tiki Doré
Montréal, Quebec, Canada (Closed)
Tiki Doré was opened by Douglas Chan, a former employee of the Montreal Kon-Tiki. Chan sold Tiki Doré in 1990. (Chan also founded the nearby Jardin Tiki.) Tiki Doré closed in January 2000, and the location is now a Russian gourmet deli of sorts (as of 2021).
Bamboo Bar
Hollywood, Florida, United States (Closed)
Bamboo Bar was in operation at least as late as 1970.
This location appears to now be part of the Margaritaville Beach Resort.
The 349-room resort and complex opened for business in October 2015 on a five-acre city-owned site between Johnson and Michigan streets.
Aloha Beach Health Spa
Denver, Colorado, United States (Closed)
This used to be a gravel and gold mining site. In 1965, the owners of the property, Archie and Virginia Calvaresi developed the mining pits into lakes and a community beach known as Aloha Beach. The Aloha Beach Club offered a restaurant and snack bar and the family eventually added a health spa, driving range and motel. In 1974 they sold the property and the history becomes murky until the Gillan family purchased it in 1994. During the next two years the Gillan family cleared and built up the property and at the same time the City of Westminster purchased adjacent land and created a reservoir moving Aloha Beach out of a flood plain and guaranteeing unobstructed panoramic mountain views for the soon to be residents.
Aloha Beach has 60 subdivision lots designed for water skiing around lakes which were reshaped by the Army Corps of Engineers. Although the subdivision still exists, the "health spa" community center is gone.
Duke Kahanamoku's
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
Popular restaurant in the International Marketplace, owned by Hawaiian surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku. The restaurant hosted many regular musical acts, including Martin Denny and Don Ho.
*NOTE: Small standing menu below in last photo is signed by Zulu 5, the original Hawaii 5-O.
This location may be gone, but currently, as of 2021, there is also a Duke's chain of restaurants that carry on this tradition with 3 locations in the Hawaiian Islands -- Waikiki, Maui, and Kauai. They also have 3 on the Mainland -- Huntington Beach, La Jolla, and Malibu.
Hilton Hawaiian Village
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
This classic Hawaiian hotel with striking views of Diamond Head near the beach of Waikiki was built in 1955 by famed American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, and was originally named Kaiser's Hawaiian Village. The property began with a few buildings, but rapidly expanded, with soaring towers eventually contributing to Waikiki's skyline. The Rainbow Tower in particular is a local landmark. Kaiser also built a nearby geodesic dome auditorium, the Kaiser Aluminum Dome, where some Exotica classics were recorded. Martin Denny played regularly in the Shell Bar, and for a couple of years Arthur Lyman played here with him. Hilton purchased the hotel in 1961, and still owns it today.
There is currently no tiki bar here, but you can get tropical cocktails at the Tropics Bar & Grill.
*Original Cocktail Menu shown below.
The Hawaiian - Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States (Closed)
This restaurant, along with Johnny's Tiki Hut in Salt Lake City, was owned by Johnny Quong.
The Hawaiian was Quong's masterpiece and it thrived from the mid 60s through the mid 80s.
Among other details, customers remember its periodic monsoon thunderstorm special effects.
While he owned the building, Quong didn't own the land underneath it. When his lease came up, he decided he needed to close it, due to health issues stemming from diabetes. The restaurant was eventually converted into a Veterans Of Foreign Wars hall.
Johnny's Tiki Hut
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States (Closed)
Opened in January 1962.
This restaurant, along with The Hawaiian in Salt Lake City, was owned by Johnny Quong.