Tiki Bars
The Good Luck Coconut
Auckland, New Zealand
Opened in 2018.
This restaurant features Pacific Rim style cuisine and great waterfront harbor views in an open and airy interior with lots of windows and high ceilings.
There is a large tiki fireplace, a tiki bar, hanging basket lights, and touches of bamboo throughout.
Drinks are served in tiki mugs.
There is also outdoor patio seating.
Andy's Place
Erlinsbach, Switzerland
Opened in 1988.
Andy's Place bills itself as an American Restaurant, and is sort of a Venn Diagram of 1950s diners, rockabilly, tiki, Rat Fink/Kustom Car Kulture, and other vintage pop culture influences.
Located in a very large two-story house, much of the restaurant has a 1950s diner vibe with a light blue ceiling, maroon vinyl chairs, and chrome/aluminum trimmed formica tables setting the tone. Large mascot statues hold prominence in several key locations, including Bob's Big Boy, the Sailor Jerry's Rum Hula Girl, and Universal's Frankenstein -- alongside some actual carved tikis.
There is a full-on tiki bar area trimmed in bamboo and they have produced at least two in-house signature tiki mugs as well.
Additionally, they host an annual Tiki Bash party with live music and other specials.
Tiki Rock Bar - Genève
Genève, Switzerland
Tiki Rock Bar opened in January 2019.
From Tiki Rock Bar:
"The bar is located in the American Dream Diner in the basement of the restaurant. WOW! This is the expression we regularly hear from our customers who come for the first time to the TIKI ROCK BAR. We have designed this place to take you not only to travel to the tropical Polynesian islands, but also to travel to the 1940s, 1950s, the golden age of American Tiki. Discover and taste a great selection of Rums from many parts of the Pacific and Caribbean. Max and Justine, our experienced bartenders, will be happy to prepare the best of classic Tiki cocktails as well as our delicious signature creations. Welcome to Tiki Rock Bar, a taste of paradise. Aloha, TIKI ROCK! "
MAORI - Pacific Rim Cuisine
Schlieren, Switzerland
Opened July 31st, 2014.
The MAORI is a Pacific Rim restaurant with 80 seats and a large bar with 30 seats in the Schlieren industry near the gas works. Their cuisine is a fusion of Polynesian cuisine with Asian, American, Australian and New Zealand influences.
They also serve tiki cocktails in tiki mugs.
Kokomo Tikibar - Lahti
Lahti, Finland (Closed)
This was the sister location to the Helsinki Kokomo Tikibar and Room.
This was a smaller venue.
It opened about the same time as the sister location in 2011, but closed in January 2015.
Samoan Joe's - Spon Street - Coventry
Coventry, United Kingdom (Closed)
This bar opened around April 2015.
The hula girl banner behind their back bar has been used at several Lola Lo's locations, but the rest of the bar has its own distinctive look with rum barrel tables, fishnet hanging from the ceilings, and several large grinning tiki masks against support beams.
In 2020, in response to Covid, they opened a "Cocktail Garden" adjacent.
The closing of this location on Spon Street was announced for June 24th, 2023 with a re-opening at the Coventry Skydome on June 30th. Skydome is a huge multi-purpose entertainment arena with ice rink and theater as well as many other smaller venues.
Aloha Bar - Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom (Closed)
This bar opened in 2010 at the Colquitt St. location and ran successfully for 9 years before closing on June 30th, 2019.
However, after a full year, they made a surprise re-opening at a new location on Caryl St., on July 6th, 2020. The Caryl St. location was very focused on outdoor space with murals on exterior walls, tables, and umbrellas to allow social distancing and air flow during Covid.
This re-opening would be short-lived, however, as Covid forced them to shutter their doors once more on October 12th, 2020.
They opened yet again for a short time but closed for good in July 2021.
Tiki Hideaway - Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom
Opened in 2010.
From Tiki Hideaway: "Welcome to our exciting tiki hideaway - situated upstairs at Call Lane Social. A 1950's inspired tropical slice of Tiki goodness for urban beachcombers. It’s escapism at its best – and the ultimate destination for the cocktail lover with its tiki décor and zombie cocktails set alight for you!"
In March of 2023, Tiki Hideaway opened a second location at 71a Seel Street, Liverpool, L1 4AZ. This new location is dubbed a "lair", hidden within the existing Mean-Eyed Cat Bar, though with its own exterior and entrance.
Tiki-O
Bradford, United Kingdom (Closed)
This tiki themed bar and nightclub opened August 27th, 2015.
Owned by parent company Tokyo Industries which was established by Aaron Mellor in 1997 and operates 32 bars, clubs, and other venues in the U.K. They strive to be a forward-thinking chain of deliberately unbranded music venues, not believing in the ‘cookie cutter’ approach to generic nightclubs.
Decor supplied by Cheeky Tiki.
Closed around February 2019.
Hakamou
Leicester, United Kingdom (Closed)
Opened in 2015.
This location had a young nightclub atmosphere with light tiki decorations including at least one carved tiki and some flotsam and jetsam hanging from the ceiling. It had a strong tilt toward drinks with naughty sounding names -- concoctions like the "The Bear's Bollock" (served in a small frozen coconut resembling the drink name) or the "Jerry Springer" although they did have house versions of classics like the Zombie and the Mai-Tai.
Closed down as a result of temporary COVID restrictions and shutdowns in 2020, reportedly shut down permanently as as 2021, and no signs of re-opening as of 2022 with boards up in windows and a lease sign out front...
Bali-Hai Polynesian Bar
Porto, Portugal
This classic Portugese tiki bar is not as highly decorated as some of the other Portugese or Spanish tiki bars, but it does have some of the familiar decor, such as amazing tile-work on walls and bar, a working fountain inside, and a plethora of porcelain Spanish-style tiki mugs. It looks to be fairly well preserved (probably opened in the 70s) and although the flooring looks new and some areas might have a fresh coat of paint, it is still much like opening a vintage time capsule.
Brass Monkey Tiki Bar
Esbjerg, Denmark (Closed)
The first Brass Monkey Tiki Bar opened at the end of 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2018, this new sister location, Brass Monkey Esbjerg, opened its doors.
From their website:
"At Brass Monkey Esbjerg, we are proud to offer one of Denmark's largest assortments of rum, consisting of selected spirits from around the world. Come by and taste some of the finest rum the world has to offer, or relax with one of our popular cocktails. We have something for everyone, and even if rum is not for you, of course we also have a small selection of other delicious and refreshing things on the menu.
If you are involved in a little party and trouble, we regularly hold small Limbo competitions. How low can you go?"
Appears to have closed some time at the end of 2021 and then re-opened in August 2022 under a new name as The Tiki Hut.