This location had a very nice sign once-upon-a-time and was located on El Centro's motel row @1960s-70s.

Around 2012 it was converted to the "American Inn" and later to "Villa Hermosa Apartments".

Built in 1961.

This development consisted of two 2-story buildings with a courtyard and pool in-between. 16 units total (1783-1797 Loma Vista St., Riverside, CA 92507).

A one-bedroom here on opening went for $85 a month.

Today, the structures remain with their stone wall front facades, but the pool has been filled in and the cool mid century fence with alternating colored rectangles has been replaced with a generic black fence.

The tiki in front is long gone and the name has undergone a few changes as well.

Its current name and commercial status remains unclear as of 2025 but all signs of tiki decor appear to have been removed.

Located at what used to be Bandits’ Grill & Bar. Opened May 6th, 2025 by Pizza Man Dan with the concept that all food and drink will be $9.99.

To accomplish this, the cocktail menu is limited to 9 choices, and all drinks are pre-batched.

Build-out of bar was done by Bamboo Ben.

Notable features include hidden Easter Eggs with a pizza theme worked into the tiki art and design elements. There is also a huge wall-sized "Vision Screen" television that plays surf footage or other videos.

999 Tiki Bar is located 2 blocks east of House of Bamboo, a more traditional and immersive Tiki Bar. House of Bamboo had setbacks during the construction phase (and did not open until February 2026) and even though the project was started earlier, 999 Tiki Bar was a relatively easier build-out and seized the title of "Camarillo's First Tiki Bar". Still, there seems to be room for both concepts as 999 Tiki Bar caters to a family crowd and House of Bamboo aims for an adult audience looking for an immersive adventure. What is clear is that Camarillo has very quickly become a clear tiki destination!

Opened in 1962.

The Kon Tiki restaurant in the convention center Norway Trade Fairs was the country's first exotic - or overall "foreign" restaurant - and made quite a colourful splash in the bleak, still rather poor post-war country. The Kon Tiki museum had just opened in the same area of Oslo and Thor Heyerdahl had generously given his blessing to use the name on the new eatery.

The design for the interior was done by Erik Hesselberg, artist, navigator and crew member on the expedition. Hesselberg was the one that had created the famous mask for the big sail on the raft and thus created one of Tiki's most famous logos.

The walls were covered in bamboo. There were peacock chairs by every table. A palm was brought into the room and an artificial stream ran through it. Adjacent to the restaurant there was the Safari Bar, serving cocktails in "an African environment".

The menu consisted of rather traditional Norwegian plates, spiffed up with exotic juices and tastes: Duck marinated roasted in peanut oil with plum sauce. Flounder served with grapes, bananas, oranges, and pineapple.

Norway had not seen anything quite like it. "The Kon Tiki is alone worth the whole convention center", Aftenposten wrote the day after the opening.

It lasted until around 1970, when the bar sort of devoured the restaurant and turned into a disco called the Safari Club. Some of the original interior was kept, but all was lost during a fire in 1984.

The Kon-Tiki at the Avalon Motel opened in December of 1967. Five miles from downtown Pittsburgh.

The Avalon Motel preceded the opening of the restaurant and was a gradually evolving family-run business...

Frank R. and Elizabeth S. Brown moved to Avalon in 1955 and bought 512 Ohio River Blvd. On the site where they would build their Avalon Motel was a huge farmhouse with a wrap-around porch.

After winning a rezoning court case against some of the neighbors, the first section of the motel was built - the only section which would remain 1-story. This first section included six finished rooms only to start and in the back were an additional six unfinished rooms. It would take another year until this second set of six rooms were ready for rental.

The second phase of construction required some help from Frank & Elizabeth's parents. They refinanced their homes and lent the money which was eventually paid back in less than four years. The room total after the second phase came to 21, with a small, two-bedroom apartment. These additional rooms were located in the building just to the right of the original twelve. Back then, motels never had a room 13 (superstition), so there were actually only 20 available rooms.

After this, the huge farmhouse was brought down and that space converted to more parking. The owners and their children lived in the two-bedroom apartment with their front room opening out into what was essentially the front office.

In 1960, Rooms 22 through 36 were added on the Bellevue side of the motel, making the building an "L" shape. Three of the new rooms were rented as one-bedroom efficiencies.

The final phase of construction, which was the Emsworth side of the motel, started in 1962. With the addition of units 37 through 48, the motel reached its final size.

By the mid 60s the motel was successful enough and the family was feeling constrained by the two-bedroom apartment, so they rented the second floor apartment in the house located on the Bellevue side of the building. A year or so later, they bought that house.

The old 2-bedroom was converted into a coffee shop.

A referendum was passed in the 1966 elections. A couple of years later, all taverns were granted permission to have full service bars.

So, with this law in place, a bar and restaurant was now possible. It was also considered the next logical step since most area motels had a bar/restaurant on premises.

Built in 1967, the new Kon-Tiki restaurant specialized in Polynesian food and drink. With little experience in the food industry, the new owners depended on a hired chef and a head bartender to show them the ropes. One of their restaurant managers was Kein Wee "Que" Moy who would later go on to open the nearby Chin's Polynesian Garden.

On the first floor of the Kon-Tiki was the lounge, a dining room that could seat about 36 people, and an outdoor patio. The second floor was the main dining area. Also on the second floor was a private room suitable for small parties. The Kon Tiki could serve a many as 200. They employed around 50 people.

Around 1972, a group of investors approached the original family with a lucrative offer and they sold the business.

Eventually, the Kon-Tiki was closed (sometime in the 80s?) and the motel began a gradual decline until it became known as a seedy motel with disreputable clients. At least one or two other restaurant concepts replaced the old Kon-Tiki in succession before its reputation completely crashed and burned...

The entire complex was condemned and closed in 2016 due to a fire.

It was torn down in 2019.

Opened December 22nd, 2025.

Although having a tiki bar at Excalibur seems wildly off-theme, the space itself is very large and fairly well-decorated.

Aside from the pinstriped suit of wooden armor...which is just a bit of an odd mash-up.

The bar has proper lighting from hanging swag lamps, and is decked out in bamboo, and thatching, with carved tiki poles and zebra print covered barstools.

The entire back of the space is taken up by a large stage flanked by large screen televisions. With nothing playing, this is a bit of a black hole, but with a good Hawaiian style band, the entire vibe could change...

The area tables and chairs are sort of generic and there are areas of this large space that feel a bit neglected with just a piece of nautical rope dangling in the void as though they didn't quite have enough cash in reserve to lavish attention on every corner, but they can always fill-in gaps later if the bar proves successful.

That success may prove difficult with a less than memorable and generic name like "The Tiki Bar" paired with a cocktail menu that seems to have been engineered to promote certain liquor distributor favorites (Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum and Tito's Vodka and Fireball "Whiskey"). Rather than honoring classic tiki cocktails and the craft cocktail revolution they seem to be pushing relatively simple "boat drinks" with inexpensive base alcohol. Despite this, they have still slapped premium prices on all their drinks at $17 and $18 a piece.

Still, the potential is there, and it will be interesting to see how this new venture forges ahead.

Opened in 2023, Bernard’s Tiki Room is located in the upstairs room of the historic Arvada Tavern in downtown Arvada, Colorado. You can enter Bernard's through the phone booth downstairs in the Tavern, hipster prohibition style.

Bernard's is generally open evenings after 6pm Thur-Sat competently serving classic tiki drinks, and is known to host various tiki themed events and live bands.

Bernard's features a somewhat less visually impactful tiki bar setting than many, all in one large, square room - but it is cozy nonetheless.

Opened @2021.

This tiki bar is located in the center of Ferrara, Italy.

Opened September 23rd, 2021.

This tiki bar and restaurant is close to the harbor of Trieste (Italy).

Opened @November 2022.

From Roxy's:

"Roxy's Tikibar is the new place in Nijmegen for the tastiest cocktails, burgers and nachos. Exotic cocktails are central to tiki culture , including in our tiki bar.

We serve a wide range of well-known cocktails such as the Mojito, Pornstar Martini or Moscow Mule. Of course you will also find special tiki cocktails such as the Mai Tai, the Jungle Bird or the Ancient Mariner. One cocktail sounds and tastes even more exotic than the other. Served in an original tiki mug, you will soon feel like you are on holiday in our atmospheric cocktail bar.

Will we see you soon for a cocktail and a burger or a large bowl of nachos? Love, Team Roxy's"

Opened summer of 2023 and located in downtown Newport, RI, this two-level bar and restaurant is tucked away in-between shops and bars on the side of a building on Bowen’s Wharf.

The tiki decor is sparse but there are fish floats, walls covered with lauhala matting, fish netting on ceilings, and tropical plants throughout. The white ceilings and beige walls along with wide plate-glass windows run contrary to the usual dark and cloistered tiki bar environment. Neither are there the layers of tiki mementos and ephemera one might find at a Trader Vic's or other classic establishment, but Wharf Fishhouse is new and has room to add more if they wish.

Their selection of custom tiki drinks are served in various tiki mugs, and they have several Polynesian inspired dishes, with a variety of skewers, sliders, rangoons, wings, ribs, etc.. Additionally, they offer standard local New England fare.

From Wharf Fishhouse & Tiki Bar:

“POLYNESIAN INSPIRED SMALL PLATES, NEW ENGLAND CLASSICS AND TIKI BAR. RIGHT IN THE HEART OF BOWEN’S WHARF.”

Established November 12th, 2020.

Formerly Peggy's, which appears to have been a divey but beloved disco nightclub.

This new Kiki's bar concept was developed to use the under-utilized space within Peggy’s. The team behind Kiki's promise “higher end” cocktails, a private entrance and a table-service only policy, and tell patrons of the former club to think of it as Peggy’s more sophisticated big sister.

The bars owners say they take inspiration from the legendary tiki bars such as Trader Vic’s and Don the Beachcomber. Visitors can expect that traditional tiki bar feel, coupled with a soundtrack of reggae, motown and disco classics.

Alex Lewthwaite, General Manager of Peggy’s and Director of Extra Fancy Limited said; “When we were brainstorming ideas for a new cocktail bar, we thought a tiki paradise in such troubling times where it’s no longer as easy to hop off on holiday would provide the Manx public with some much needed ‘sunshine’ and escapism!”

*NOTE: All that said, the interior design of this bar is still closer to a dive tiki bar than to early Trader Vic's or Don the Beachcomber. There is some thatch and natural fiber on the ceiling and walls, some inexpensive Indonesian style masks, and some tropical pillows strewn about, but it appears a bit thrown together. The cocktail menu does look well thought-out and has some tiki classics on it that look very promising, however.