Tiki Bars
Ho Kong
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States (Closed)
Built in 1970, this small neighborhood bar and restaurant served Chinese food and tiki cocktails.
It had an A-frame entrance with a large Maori style tiki carving hanging below the peak. Inside, much of the decor was Chinese-themed, but they did have thatch-covered booth seating with a number of Orchids of Hawaii style hanging lanterns over each booth.
Closed in 2019. Demolished in 2023 and added to the Cass Park expansion.
Jack's Cannery Bar
San Francisco, California, United States (Closed)
A short-lived tiki bar added to Jack's Cannery Bar, found in The Cannery at Fisherman's Wharf.
It appears a few orange-painted Tiki Bobs endured after the rest was removed...
Mauna Loa Restaurant - Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (Closed)
This location was open briefly from @ 1977 - 1980 and was known for its Hawaiian Dance Review floor shows.
Today this site is a Shop n' Save.
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)
Formerly Don the Beachcomber's.
Duke Kahanamoku's restaurant opened on September 1, 1961 with none-other-than Donn Beach handing over the keys to the Hawaiian surfing legend.
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 today, but currently, as of 2025, 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.