Tiki Bars
Tiki-Tiki Restaurant - Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, United States
This Polynesian/Chinese restaurant opened in 1976.
The decor is not heavily Polynesian, but there is a large tiki mask at the front entrance and an Orchids of Hawaii swag lamp over the bar.
Drinks are served in tiki mugs and there is also a flaming Pu-Pu Platter on the menu.
Tiki Bay Bar & Grill
Baytown, Texas, United States (Closed)
This restaurant & bar was of the more generic, vaguely islandy sort, and appeared to only have a small muddling of Polynesian influence with more of an emphasis on Caribbean style... one of those places that thinks that you just add a little bamboo, thatch and the word "Island" before "Hot Wings" on your menu, and you've got a tiki bar. It opened in 2004, and was closed by 2011.
Tiki Port
Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Tiki Port is a Chinese/Polynesian restaurant, it opened in 1977. The decor includes painted murals and beautiful Orchids of Hawaii style swag lamps, but the theming is more Chinese than Polynesian. It serves traditional Chinese/Polynesian favorites, including a flaming pu-pu platter.
Tiki Port has a slightly-more-Polynesian sister restaurant in Medford, Tiki Island.
Tiki Room - Pomona
Pomona, California, United States (Closed)
Tiki Room in Pomona was open at least as early as 2000 and was a rental space used for bands to have live shows.
It was a spacious venue, with dim lighting, glow-in-the-dark paintings, caged go-go dancers, a stage for dancing and a maximum capacity of about 2,000 people.
It closed in 2007, and the building that housed it has been demolished.
Tiki Bowling Lanes
Lancaster, Ohio, United States
Tiki Bowling Lanes opened in 1962 on what was then known as Krouse Road (and was later renamed "Tiki Lane" in honor of the business). A Lancaster Eagle-Gazette article on November 29, 1962 described the 32-lane alley as one of the most beautiful, well-equipped bowling lanes in Ohio.
Tiki Bowling Lanes was once much more Tiki, with a cocktail lounge furnished with thatched huts, but today the interior has been stripped down to a more generic bowling alley. The site underwent a major renovation that included the addition of 10 lanes in 1972. The exterior, however, has two gorgeous, large tile mosaics of tikis and torches.
Tiki Aloha Apartments
Torrance, California, United States
The Tiki Aloha Apartments were originally called the Tiki Tabu Apartments. They opened in January of 1963 and were still calling themselves the Tiki Tabu Apartments as late as 1965.
Developed by Ray Watt, designed by Phil Blair, and built by Dan Ostrow. From a concept by Dan Ostrow. Originally opened with 35 available apartments, most of which were leased immediately in the first 6 weeks.
The building has two peaked a-frames with outrigger beams, and support posts carved with tiki faces. The grounds once had many tiki carvings and thatch details, and some still remain, although some of the bigger carvings like the two that flanked the front entrance are no longer there.
South Seas Cocktail Lounge - at The Coast Inn - Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach, California, United States (Closed)
The Coast Inn was built and opened in 1929.
The South Seas was established in 1936 as a pre-Tiki bar and most of its decor shown in photos below was in place by 1941.
There were actually two bars at the Coast Inn location. Part of the charm of both bars was that tropical aquarium fish tanks were used for the bar counter tops. The upstairs bar, known as the Tap Room, was quiet, dark and sophisticated. But the downstairs bar, called the South Seas, with its Polynesian atmosphere, invited customers to let down their hair.
The location, according to past owners, started with military servicemen and local young people, surfers, and more of a "straight" crowd, but began to see more and more of a gay crowd in the 70s until it became known as more of a gay bar by the mid 1980s. This coincided with a change of the name to the "Boom Boom Room" in 1978 by the new owner.
The "Boom Boom Room" shut its doors in 2007.
However, the Coast Inn endures as of the present time (2024)...
Tiki Garden Dining Room & Restaurant - at the Hilo Lagoon Hotel
Hilo, Hawaii, United States (Closed)
The Hilo Lagoon Hotel was built in 1971.
The 10 floor building was built overlooking the spring-fed Waiakea Lagoon and Park. The six acre site included lush landscaping, extensive fishponds filled with colorful carp, and a freshwater swimming pool.
The Tiki Garden Restaurant was located on the first level overlooking the carp ponds. It specialized in buffet meals. Decor included large murals and floor-to-ceiling Easter Island Moai heads.
NOTE: As of today (2024) this building has been converted to apartment housing.
Tiki Apartments - Canoga Park
Canoga Park, California, United States
Built in 1964, the Tiki Apartments in Canoga Park was a multi-family 2 story construction with 5+ units (17 beds and 47 baths).
It is unclear how long many of the tiki elements held on, but most were certainly gone after the Northridge Earthquake in 1994.
As of 2025, the only vestiges of its original construction are the sections covered by lava rock and the A-frame in the center.
Tiki-Tock - at The Frenchman Hotel - New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Opened in April of 2023.
This is more of a tropical bar than a tiki bar.
Without "Tiki" in the name, there is nothing in the decor to support the "tikiness" of the venue. It would be equally at home in Mexico or Jamaica or the Caribbean.
Palapa thatched umbrellas designate seating areas and there are runners of palm thatching around the top and bottom of the bar which look like they could be quickly torn down in an afternoon if the Frenchman Hotel decided its Patio needed a re-fresh and a different theme.
One corner has some tropical wallpaper and a few large tropical flower prints. There are no tiki carvings or Polynesian artworks.
And, the stark concrete floor, large exposed brick walls, and black-painted industrial metal ceiling are at odds with the rest of the decor.
Despite this, they have a very good menu of tropical and tiki cocktails and have drawn high praise for the quality of their cocktails, created by Patrick Williams, VP of operations and innovation for Angevin & Co., which owns the hotel and bar.
The Tiki Easy Bar
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Opened in July 2023. The Tiki Easy Bar is a speakeasy hidden behind Hi-Wire’s South Slope Specialty Brewery in Asheville, North Carolina.
The bar occupies a 2500-square-foot space through the back door of Hi-Wire’s South Slope Specialty Brewery, an area of the building that had not been previously open to the public.