Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #143 The Groggy Grotto – Lake Oswego OR

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Groggy Grotto

I’ve been to many home tiki bars. Usually the bar is located outside in the garage or sometimes it’s down in basement but for Darren and Kathleen’s Groggy Grotto, you got to go upstairs! Originally the Groggy Grotto was located in Darren and Kathleen’s basement when they lived in West Seattle. It was a work in progress and far from being finished but I did get to see it when I delivered a shirt to them. Then they moved to Lake Oswego and started working on the Groggy Grotto again and this time it’s finished and it’s incredible! Here’s Darren and Kathleen’s story…

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #141 Bamboo Rendezvous – Neptune City NJ

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Bamboo Rendezvous

I’m just going to continue to add more stuff, until I can’t fit anything anymore…

I’d say this is true for most of us who have their own tiki space. Some spaces are bigger than others. For Aloha Joe, he’s working with what space he has. Aloha Joe lives in a condo, so he doesn’t have a garage, a basement or even a spare bedroom to create a tiki hideaway for himself. But he has a dining room… So out when the fancy utensils and chinaware, and in comes the tiki! Here is how Aloha Joe’s Bamboo Rendezvous came to be…

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #140 The Sunset Fogcutter – Victoria BC

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Sunset Fogcutter

Josh and Susan recently moved to Victoria BC from San Francisco. While living in the Bay Area, they had many tiki bars to choose from, they could go to a different tiki bar every day of the week and still have more left over! Josh is from Canada and he wanted to move back, so he brought his wife Susan with him and bought a home in  beautiful Victoria BC.

Their house is a “Character Home” which means it was built before 1930 that displays unique architectural features from its historical period. These homes are defined by their distinctive elements, including ornate cornices, bay windows, verandahs, and special features like leadlight windows or tiled roofs. Character houses are typically built from weatherboard or brick, offering spacious layouts with four or more bedrooms.

They knew they wanted to build a tiki bar, they just needed to pick a room in their very large house. Josh and Susan settled on a room that used to be a study. Great choice because it gives their tiki bar “The Sunset Fogcutter” a world adventurer/explorer feel. When you step inside The Sunset Fogcutter, you feel like you’re going back in time. Here is Josh and Susan’s story…

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #139 36th Chamber of Tiki – Portland OR

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36th Chamber Of Tiki

Do you like the Wu-Tang Clan?

If that answer is yes, then I got a home tiki bar for you! It’s called the 36th Chamber of Tiki and its theme is, Kung Fu movies, Chinese restaurants, Tiki and of course the Wu-Tang Clan. Elise and Stephen converted their third bedroom into the 36th Chamber of Tiki. It’s cozy and very unique. Here’s the story of the 36th Chamber of Tiki…

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999 Tiki (Pizza) Camarillo CA – Guest Tiki Bar Review by Tom Hemmen

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999 Pizza

999 Tiki proved to be a surprise on several levels. First of all, I had never heard of it before. Secondly, I confess that I set my expectations on a Tiki bar that was an outgrowth of a pizza parlor pretty low … and am happy to say that I was a misguided in this initial reaction, for reasons that I will further elaborate below…

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #138 Kokomo Oasis Portland OR

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Kokomo Oasis

Remember that Beach Boys song from the 80’s, Kokomo?

Can you tell me how to get to Kokomo? Is it a real place? I really don’t know. But I can tell you that I’ve found a home tiki bar that was inspired by that Beach Boys tune, it’s call Kokomo Oasis. Kokomo Oasis can be found behind Paul and Jayme Obais’s home in Portland OR. The devil is in the details and the closer you look, the more you’ll discover, like a hidden message carved out in Morse code underneath the bar! It took me a little bit to decipher but I got it! Here’s Paul to clue you into more details way down in Kokomo…. Oasis!

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #137 The Fo’c’sle – Bothell WA

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The Fo’c’sle

Bothell is about 45 minutes north of Seattle. There used to be one reason why I would make the trek up and that is The North Shore Lagoon at The McMenamins Anderson School. But now I have second reason to come up to Bothell, and that is to visit my new friends Pete and Andrea Zeller and hang out in their living room turned tiki bar The Fo’c’sle! I don’t know how to pronounce the name of their tiki bar, but I know their address! Here is Pete and Andrea’s tiki story…

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