Tiki Bars
House of Tiki - West 17th Street - Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa, California, United States (Closed)
House of Tiki was owned by Wes Johnson, and sold new merchandise, including aloha wear, tiki mugs, home decor, and of course tikis. This was the second location for House of Tiki, having moved from its original location (used from 2003-2008) to this location within a WWII quonset hut in December 2008. House of Tiki closed in September 2009.
Capt. J's Hurricane Tiki Room
Tilburg, Netherlands
Opened @November 2022.
From Captain J's Hurricane Tiki Room:
"Capt. J's Hurricane is a completely new concept in Tilburg.
A real tropical tiki room and latin club in the middle of the center.
There are few ways to escape modern problems,
but what if there was a place that transported you to another world?
The ultimate achievement in escapism. Enter the Tiki Room."
*NOTE: Capt. J's Hurricane is located in the De Lollipop building. Since an icon like De Lollipop can of course never disappear, De Lollipop will continue to exist as a festival and as a regularly recurring Saturday evening event under the name 'Lollipop Outdoor'.
Liki Tiki
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States (Closed)
Liki Tiki was a small juice bar/refreshment stand inside the Colorado Springs Bike Shop. The stand served lemonade, smoothies, and other light refreshments. The bike shop has been operating since 1973, but the small tikified stand was a newer addition, having inherited a large tiki from The Castaways in nearby Manitou Springs. The bike shop is easily spotted with its front lighthouse facade.
Liki Tiki was closed in 2019 in anticipation of the relocation of the Cerberus Brewing Company. Since 2016, Cerberus had run a brewpub on the corner opposite the bike shop (702 W. Colorado Ave.), and its popularity triggered the need for expansion. However, as of summer 2021, it appears Cerberus has remained where it is and the bike shop is still operating.
Swizzle Dallas
Dallas, Texas, United States
Dallas's newest Tiki bar had their grand opening November 4th, 2020.
From their website:
"Swizzle has been bringing Tiki cocktails and a welcomed escape from the ordinary since 2016.
We're proud to be the producers of Dallas Tiki Week, the artist showcase The Waipuna Tiki Flea, and other Pop-Ups around DFW.
Now with our own establishment on Greenville Ave, we are ready to serve up unique culinary offerings and complex libations.
Why can't we live in a world where mermaids exist and volcanos have rum at the bottom of them?
At Swizzle, you can."
The Enchanted Tiki Room - Tokyo
Maihama, Urayasu, Japan
The original show which premiered in Tokyo Disneyland at the park's opening in 1983 is long gone. In 1999 it closed to make way for The Enchanted Tiki Room: Now Playing Get The Fever!, which was a Las Vegas-style lounge music show. In 2008, Stitch took over the Tiki Room with Stitch Presents "Aloha E Komo Mai!"
Tiki Hideaway - at the Mean-Eyed Cat Bar - Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
This is the third in a series of Tiki Hideaways (the first opened in Leeds and the second opened in Liverpool at a sister Mean-Eyed Cat). It is part of the Escapism Bar Group family, which was founded in 2004 by husband and wife team Phil and Mel Harrison.
This space was previously home to a Thai BBQ restaurant that closed in October 2022.
This third Tiki Hideaway opened September 28th, 2023 in the basement under The Mean-Eyed Cat, and resembles the other two versions with a long bamboo bar, thatching, lit tiki mask wall sconces, palm frond wallpaper, and stools around the perimeter.
There is also a photo booth.
Tiki Beat Bar & Club
Regensburg, Germany
Opened in 2013.
The venue has a raised stage at the back and is known for its live music. The large main room can have tables and chairs moved to easily accommodate a large crowd.
Each tiki flanking the main bar weighs an estimated 500 kilograms and was specially designed for the occasion by the Regensburg Tiki artist Kai Sarnes (alias Haikai). This artist friend is also responsible for their house tiki mugs.
Broken Compass Tiki Bar
Burbank, California, United States
Opened in 2019 on the site of what used to be Buchanan Arms, a British pub.
Upon opening, there were minimal changes made to the decor (some skeletons and cutlases and nautical netting) but this was in keeping with what the owners described as a pirate bar serving up British pub fare (Fish n’ Chips, Bangers n’ Mash, and Shepherd’s Pie).
However, from early on they had a heavily tiki influenced cocktail menu.
The cocktail program and regular food menu received excellent reviews and customers were told that they were going to lean more heavily toward tiki with future updates.
Further remodeling took place and in November 2022, the bar re-opened with a much more heavily tiki influenced interior including tons of rattan and thatched huts. The pirates and skeletons are still there also, but the overall tropical ambiance is much enhanced -- right down to Jose and Juan, skeletal versions of the parrots found in Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room.
The name phased out from "The Burbank Pub" and into "Broken Compass" some time around the beginning of 2023.
Kon Tiki Motel - Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa, California, United States (Closed)
Built in 1958 with 46 rooms.
Costa Mesa’s Kon Tiki Motel was the New Harbor Inn for a time up until about 2017/2018 but is now the Mesa Motel.
Tiki Tiki - Edmonton
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Closed)
Opened November 9th, 1970.
Photos shown are from the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
Tiki Tiki was a small Polynesian restaurant on the basement level of a building, with a palm tree shaded A-frame entrance. The restaurant had a floor show with drummers and dancers. The decor included much bamboo, thatch, and a volcano. There were also Tiki Tiki locations in Calgary and Saskatoon.
This location closed in the mid 1980s and is now a bar called Woody's.
Kon-Tiki - Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Kon-Tiki dates from 1955 and still has some great details from the period. Rather than being a tiki bar, it was inspired by the famed Kon-Tiki voyage; the exploration's logo is used as the logo of the bar. The Floss Bar is connected inside.
Closed briefly for a couple of months in 2016 but re-opened under new ownership.
Although the Kon-Tiki looks much the same as it has for the last 60+ years, as the new signs proclaim, it is now one of the first legal weed coffee shops in Zurich. You can buy four different strains of cannabis at the counter — Lion Haze, Orange Bud, Purple Bud and Kon-Tiki Kush — and smoke your purchase in the large upstairs lounge. However, by law, their cannabis can contain no more than 1% THC, so may be less potent than some users are expecting.