Tiki Bars
Hale Koloa - at the Prince Kuhio Apartments & Hotel
Koloa, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
Built in 1962.
Today, the bar and restaurant is gone and this property has been converted to condos.
Located adjacent to Prince Kuhio Park and mere yards from the ocean on the sunny South Shore at Poipu Beach in Kauai.
Menehune Bar - at the Edgewater Hotel
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
Opened in 1951 by Roy Kelley.
This bar seems to have been adjacent to the Coral Terrace Restaurant at the Edgewater Hotel.
Since 2007, with the creation of the Waikiki Beach Walk, this entire area has been redeveloped and no signs of the original structure remain.
Waiakea Resort Village and Marketplace
Hilo, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
C. Brewer and Co., a major sugar company, opened the Waiakea Resort Village and Marketplace in Hilo in 1972, part of a massive expansion that included a restaurant in Kau, the Volcano House hotel (built in 1961) and a golf course and residential units at Punaluu.
The Waiakea Resort Village was meant to resemble a pre-contact village before the arrival of Christian missionaries and also included a lagoon, waterfalls, streams, and 12 acres of gardens.
Its focus, was its 294-room hotel. Terra Ceramics was hired to create some drinking vessels for the new establishment, including a volcano mug and a bamboo server.
In October 1977, the entire resort was sold to Sheraton, which operated it for a time under its own banner. After which, it changed hands several times.
Orchid Island Hotel
Hilo, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
Built in 1967 at the site of the Legionnaire Clubhouse.
The hotel itself was a standard multi-story structure, but with the addition of an ornamental 6 story A-frame entrance and huge standing tiki next to it out front.
Inside was The Monkey Bar. Live monkeys were in a large cage behind the bar with a glass window.
Ownership changed hands a couple of times, and then the hotel went out of business and finally closed in 1977.
The building burned in 1986, and the lot was cleared.
The property is now part of Reed’s Bay Beach Park.
The Breakers Hotel
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
A two-story relic in the heart of Waikiki. The Breakers' close proximity to local attractions and its bargain rates make it a popular spot that is often fully booked. Relatively unchanged since it opened in 1954, the hotel is broken into six low-rise buildings centered around an outdoor sundeck and pool.
No tikis on this property but the mid-century, Japanese/Polynesian architecture is still intact, with shoji screens over the sliding doors and classic wood louvres covering the windows.
The property is walking distance to everything in central Waikiki, including the beach, which is a three-minute stroll away.
Arnold's Beach Bar
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Opened in 1992, Arnold's is a good old-fashioned Honolulu Tiki dive bar.
This hidden spot off Saratoga Road was once a horse stable, but today Arnold’s is lined wall-to-wall with lauhala, decked in vintage photographs of hapa-haole hula girls and protected by tiki totems everywhere you turn.
You’ll also find locally made rum and drafts. Their mai-tais are touted as being pretty good and inexpensive.
Skull & Crown Trading Company
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Skull & Crown Trading Company opened in downtown Honolulu's Chinatown on June 7th, 2019. They occupy the spot formerly occupied by Grondin French-Latin Kitchen. Noa Laporga and Angelina Khan run Skull & Crown Trading Co., which is the latest in the duo’s history of mysterious, haunting and enchanting ventures. You might know them from Haunted Plantation, which takes over Hawai‘i Plantation Village every Halloween; they also ran the Unlocked escape room at Ward Warehouse in 2016 and Ala Moana’s Ghost Bar in October 2018, as well as a special effects company, Black Box FX. In keeping with this background, the bar has a bit of a "dark tiki" theme with a creepy mermaid over the bar and lots of skulls.
Their craft cocktail menu is chosen with care, regularly switched up with new items, and has received rave reviews.
There is also a back patio area.
Mamahune's
Kapaʻa, Hawaii, United States
Opened in June 2019 right next to the Hilton Garden Inn Kauai Wailua Bay. This small bar and grill offers great views as well as food and drinks.
Canlis' Charcoal Broiler
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
Canlis Charcoal Broiler Restaurant was opened in 1954 by owner Peter Canlis and architect George Pete Wimberly. It was known for its high-end architectural and interior design as well as the kimono-clad waitresses. It also had a large 15' tiki in the main banquet hall whose design is repeated on their logo menu art. This tiki was carved by Edward "Mick" Brownlee (a non native who was also acknowledged as a master woodcarver and became known as the "Waikiki Wood Carver". Brownlee also carved for The Waikikian, The Tahitian Lanai, The International Marketplace and the Aku Aku in Las Vegas. His story is documented in the book, Waikiki Tiki, by Phillip S. Roberts.
A second Canlis' Restaurant was later opened in Seattle, Washington.
The original Canlis' closed in 1989 and was razed in 1998. Luxury Row now stands in its original location at 2100 Kalakaua.
Tiki Tops
Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
This location opened in 1959 as a tiki themed coffee shop belonging to the Spencecliff Corporation which owned many classic tiki themed unique architectural sites. Today it is Flamingo. There were at least two other Tops locations, one in Waikiki and one in Waipahu.
The Myna Bird
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
The Myna Bird was a tiki bar in the International Market Place in Honolulu, opened on May 19, 2017. The small bar was part of The Street, a food-court-like collection of restaurants and bars by Michael Mina. The tiki bar paid tribute to the Don the Beachcomber restaurant in Waikiki, which was the anchor of the original International Market Place.
Closed on 11/08/2020.
UPDATE: This space was re-named the Tipsy Tiki with little to no change in decor and re-opened some time prior to December 2021.
Tiki Iniki - Princeville
Princeville, Hawaii, United States
Tiki Iniki opened in Princeville, on the north side of the island of Kauai, in 2013. It was brought to life by Michele Rundgren, wife of famed all-over-the-musical-map Todd Rundgren. The two fell in love with Kauai through their visits to the Coco Palms resort. They moved to Kauai just after Hurricane Iniki destroyed the resort. All these years later, they have now opened a place of their own.
The interior of Tiki Iniki was created by Bamboo Ben.
A sister Tiki Iniki location came and went in Atlanta, operated by a licensee without the Rundgrens' involvement.