In Italy, we recently had the opportunity – thanks to the tip from a friend – to take a break from our antiquities death march and kick back at a Tiki bar in the Eternal City! Continue reading “Makai Surf & Tiki Bar – Rome, Italy Guest Write Up By Tom Hemmen”
Deep in the heart of East Texas, you will find Eric AKA the RAD Man, and his wife Lisa AKA Leeza Rad’s home tiki bar. It’s called Tiki Encanto which means Enchanted Tiki in Spanish. When you live in a place where there’s no tiki, you bring you own, and that’s exactly what Eric and his wife did! They packed up their original tiki bar they built in California and moved it to East Texas. Here is RAD Man and Leeza Rad’s story …
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #92 Tiki Encanto – East Texas”
The Swongos are a surf band from the St. Croix River Valley on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. I’m pretty sure there isn’t too much surfing going on but there but when it comes to Surf music, well that’s a different story! The Swongos play classic surf music with a couple different musical genres throw in for good measure. The Swongos are releasing their first album soon, it’s called Curious Tourist and here’s Tom (The Swongo’s guitarist) to tell you all about it …
Continue reading “The Swongos – An Instrumental Surf Band From Wisconsin!”
A couple years ago I did write up on Lucas Mark’s blog: The Meek Tiki for my Tiki Blogging series. Since then, Lucas and his wife Amber bought a home and converted their basement into an incredible home tiki bar. It’s called The Ritual Room and I feel lucky that I got to see this home tiki bar in person! Here is Lucas to tell you all about it …
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #91 The Ritual Room – Minneapolis MN”
The Liki Tiki is in the attic of Lin Cooper’s garage, well it’s more of crawl space but you can fully stand up in it. The only way to get up to this attic or should I say “Liki Tiki” is by a small ladder.
All the dark wood and sharp angles of the garage’s roof are the perfect bones for a tiki bar to be built in, all you got to do is get an actual bar up there! This is exactly what Lin did. After lugging a bar up the small ladder, he added some bamboo furniture and lighting. If there’s anything that you can take away from Lin’s tiki bar, is that you can make anything into a tiki bar, you just need to think outside of the box, or should I say garage?
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #90 Liki Tiki – Everett WA”
Back in the 90’s during the Tiki Revival, before the internet, you learned about tiki by word of mouth, searching out tiki yourself or you read Tiki News. Tiki News was a fanzine created by Otto Von Stroheim and it was very DIY, underground and super cool! Matt Watson lives in Mexico City and decided to get the word out about tiki in Mexico by doing it old school, he started his own tiki fanzine! It’s called La Cultura Tiki Fanzine and I LOVE this! Here is Matt’s story on how the tiki fanzine started and where it’s going…
Continue reading “La Cultura Tiki Fanzine – A Tiki Fanzine From Mexico!”
Like the bar’s mixed Japanese/tiki decor, Austin‘s Tiki Tatsu-Ya infuses Japanese-inspired flavor into their cocktails to bring new twists on iconic tiki cocktails. This fusion exists primarily in the syrups, according to drinks manager Cory Starr.
Continue reading “The Cocktails At Tiki Tatsu-Ya By Stephen Curran (Austin TX)”
Tiki Tatsu-Ya, Austin’s new restaurant and bar, puts a Japanese twist on the tiki bar. But it is much more than that. Imagine the immersive bar re-imagined as theme park attraction where story and decor synchronize to complete the ideal immersive bar experience.
Continue reading “Tiki Tatsu-Ya – Guest Tiki Bar Review By Stephen Curran (Austin TX)”
I like my tiki bars dark, really dark and so does Heathen John. John lives in Phoenix and when he decided to build his tiki bar, he wanted to keep it dark because most of the commercial tiki bars are too bright. John had a half acre of land with an old barn and a house on the property. John didn’t just build a tiki bar, he built a Heathen World. What is Heathen World? Keep reading…
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #89 Heathen World – Phoenix AZ”
Having already toured and reviewed Lost Spirits other property in Anaheim, California, we were curious to see how similar or different this new property would be … either way, it was likely to be an interesting outing!
Continue reading “Lost Spirits Distillery Tour – Guest Write Up By Tom Hemmen (Las Vegas NV)”
