Tiki Bars
Tiki Tiki Bar & Grill - Houston
Houston, Texas, United States (Closed)
This short-lived restaurant, bar and dance club opened in summer 2004, and closed in spring 2005.
South Seas Club - Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska, United States (Closed)
Open at least as early as 1943. This site was apparently destroyed by the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964.
Bar owned by Walt Gronert, as identified by Bob Barnett. Bar located on north side of 4th Avenue between G and H Streets, as identified by C. Gill.
The logo/menu design was greatly inspired from an early Trader Vic's menu but with a few changes.
The Bamboo Room - Schaumburg
Schaumburg, Illinois, United States (Closed)
Opened in 2003.
This trendy nightclub and restaurant had a small side tiki bar.
In 2007, the Bamboo Room closed, and in 2009 the space hosted a nightclub called Heat.
Since 2017 or so, this site has hosted a Crunch Fitness.
Chan's Dragon Inn
Ridgefield, New Jersey, United States (Closed)
Opened in 1962.
The interior featured tiki poles and shields, string lights, Christmas lights, printed fabric, Chinese dragons, bamboo and rattan accents, rainbow chunk resin swag lamps, fake flowers, plastic colored leis, and pufferfish lamps. Two outrigger canoes hung from the ceiling. In the front entrance there was a wishing well made from three giant clam shells.
There was a main dining area that seated about 60 people, with a small alcove in the northeast corner that had one table, and a secondary, smaller, separate dining area in the front of the building (to the left as you enter) that held probably another 16-20 people.
On the other side of the main dining area was a small bar, with enough seating for about eight people where you could order the restaurant’s signature cocktail offerings: Daiquiri, Mai Tai, Aloha Delight, South Sea Satellite, Tabu for Two, and Flaming Virgin, to name a few.
This location closed Fall 2020.
Aloha - Springfield
Springfield, Missouri, United States (Closed)
Opened in 2003.
Polynesian restaurant that was located in a strip mall, serving tropical drinks in tiki mugs, and featuring Oceanic Arts lamps and a few tikis.
It closed in July 2004 after being in business for a bit over a year.
The Aloha Room
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Closed)
This was a bar in Barrymore's Music Hall with a vague tropical theme -- a basic dive bar with some thatch here and there and a few plastic tikis. Tropical drinks were available.
Appears to have closed @2012 with some promotion for a comeback in 2020 that never materialized.
Traders Restaurant
Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, United States
Traders Restaurant is adjacent to the Aku Tiki Inn, and is sometimes called the Aku Tiki Traders Restaurant. There are a few pieces of tiki decor left, including some Witco carved furniture. It is just down the street from Hawaiian Inn.
Sunset Park
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
This public Las Vegas park is the site of one of the moai statues carved for Aku Aku at the Stardust by Eli Hedley. The statue sits on an island in the middle of a pond.
Islands Restaurant
Torrance, California, United States
This is one of a growing chain of Islands restaurants in the Southwest that started in Orange County, CA in 1982.
Islands restaurants have a vague and generic tropical theme that leans towards "Surf" but usually has a few tiki masks and other tiki-friendly decor.
This particular location in the Rolling Hills shopping plaza does have a rather nice, large tiki inside.
Tiki Apartments - Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach, California, United States
This Redondo Beach apartment building is from the '60s and still has plenty of tikis, both in front of the building and in the pool courtyard. It's particularly notable for its large, beautifully lettered sign that simply says "Tiki". It is just blocks from the beach.
Some of the apartment building's tikis are speculated to have been carved by students of Trader Luke, Mike & George Gildea (and friends from Manhattan Beach), who were known for their unique cartoon-like and elongated mouths on their carvings.
Documented on page 221 in Sven Kirsten's The Book of Tiki (and 150/153 in Tiki Style).
Marco Island Marriott Resort
Marco Island, Florida, United States
Originally a 50-room hotel when it was built to greet the modern-era’s first visitors in 1965, island developers Elliott, Robert and Frank Mackle Jr. would go on to expand the property to 100 rooms in 1967.
By 1971 the brothers and their company, the Deltona Corp., spent a then-staggering sum of $18 million to further improve their beachfront showplace. A new 10-story tower — the first of two — 400 beautifully appointed rooms, much-needed convention space, and Quinn’s restaurant on the beach ushered in a new era for the Mackles and their fledgling island paradise.
Once opened, the hotel became the largest on Florida’s entire west coast. More than 400 employees were hired. Each and every guest enjoyed a Gulf view.
Marriott purchased the property in 1979 and soon built a second tower.
The work was not yet completed, however.
Beginning in 2016, Marriott began a 3-year and $320 million transformation project, to bring us what we currently see today (as of 2021) -- a completely modern and no expenses spared adults only resort.
This gulfside resort may not be Polynesian themed (despite the name of the new "Lanai" tower), but they do have a Kane Tiki Bar & Grill which serves cocktails in tiki mugs.