The Devil’s Reef makes me want to move to Tacoma!
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Tiki Week at The Burgundian 2017 Seattle, WA
Seattle doesn’t have many Tiki bars, but there are some bars in the city that host Tiki nights. Tuesday is Tiki night at the Diller Room and Essex, both which I highly recommend.
The Burgundian took things one step further by hosting a Tiki Week!
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Tiki Night At Essex! Ballard, WA (Seattle)
Whittier Heights…
It’s a neighborhood in Ballard that I have never heard of. My friend Robb mentioned that I should check out a bar there called Essex. Every Tuesday is Tiki night. Okay, cool. I’ll go check it out!
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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #27 The Bungalow Seattle, WA
In 2007, Sarah and Robb met for the first time in Austin, Texas and started dating.
In 2009, Sarah moved up to Seattle to be with Robb, full-time.
In 2014, Robb proposed to Sarah on top of the Fairmount Hotel. She said yes!
That was July. They celebrated by drinking Tiki drinks at The Tonga Room!
In October of 2014, they moved into a beautiful bungalow in Ballard and created a perfect Mid-Century home.
Then they decided they needed a Tiki bar, so they turned their porch into the Bungalow.
More importantly, Sarah and Robb got married in 2016! I will let Robb fill in the blanks below…
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Hooligans Scooter Club Tiki/Totem Run 2017
At some point, my love of scooters and Tiki was going to overlap…
Every year, my scooter club hosts a ride. This year, I thought it would be a cool to make it Tiki/Hawaiian-themed. So Day One of our rally was spent rolling around Seattle eating at Hawaiian places and drinking at Tiki bars! Kickstands up…let’s go!
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Tiki Kon 2017 Caribbean Castaway, Day One: The ‘Verb
The third and final act of the night of day one of Tiki Kon 2017 was The ‘Verb. Seattle representing again! The ‘Verb busted out some awesome surf rock that had everyone dancing, including me! The go-go dancers came back on stage to show the crowd how it’s done!
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Tiki Kon 2017 Caribbean Castaway, Day One: The Delstroyers
Kicking off the live music for Day One of Tiki Kon 2017 was Seattle’s own the Delstroyers! They rocked out with full-throttle surf rock with go-go dancers to boot! The crowd loved it!
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Straight Edge Tiki #4 The Diller Room 3/7/2017
I’m not straight edge now, but I used to be back in the ’90s…
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Hula Hula Grand Re-Opening! Capitol Hill Seattle, WA
My how time flies…
It was one year ago, almost to the week. I was at Hula Hula chatting with the bartender. She had good news and bad news.
The bad news was that Hula Hula was closing because the building was getting leveled for new development. The good news was that Hula Hula would live again in a new location. The owners just needed to find the right place…
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Straight Edge Tiki #2 North Shore Lagoon 1/8/17
There are many reasons why people don’t drink alcohol. Some people can’t drink because of health reasons. Others don’t because they feel it’s just not a good idea anymore. But one of the most important reasons not to drink is pregnancy.
Bobby is a good buddy of mine. We are heavily into Vespa scooters and have spent many hours riding (and probably even more hours wrenching just to make our scooters run!). Bobby had never been to a Tiki bar and was interested in checking one out. When Bobby’s wife Birgitta heard we were going to the North Shore Lagoon, she was bummed. She’s pregnant, which meant no drinking for her. It was all good for Brigitta, though! We were going to do some drinking, but we were going to do it the Straight Edge Tiki way: no alcohol!
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