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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #92 Tiki Encanto – East Texas

Posted by Ray on June 8, 2022 in Home Tiki Bars 8 Comments

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 …

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The Cocktails At Tiki Tatsu-Ya By Stephen Curran (Austin TX)

Posted by Ray on December 22, 2021 in Guest Tiki Bar Review

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.

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Tiki Tatsu-Ya – Guest Tiki Bar Review By Stephen Curran (Austin TX)

Posted by Ray on December 17, 2021 in Guest Tiki Bar Review

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.

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Tiki VIP #42 Jayme Blaschke – A Moment Of Tiki (A How-To Tiki Show)

Posted by Ray on June 17, 2020 in Tiki VIP 2 Comments

It’s not hard to find cocktail how-to videos online. But what if you’re curious about how to work with bamboo or how to renew a rattan chair? Well, I have a show for you. It’s called A Moment of Tiki and the videos are top notch! Jayme Blaschke is the host of this incredible show and I’ll let him take it from here …

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #29 The Enchanted Tiki Lounge Conroe, Texas

Posted by Ray on September 4, 2017 in Home Tiki Bars

The Enchanted Tiki Lounge

The Enchanted Tiki Lounge, not to be confused with the Enchanted Tiki Room, is located in Conroe, Texas. It’s not a coincidence. Brain Martin’s inspiration comes from Disneyland’s most famous air-conditioned attraction. To call the Enchanted Tiki Lounge “just a bar” would be a crime. This place is off the charts! Here is Brian’s story…

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Tiki Blogging #3 Adventures In Tiki

Posted by Ray on May 17, 2017 in Tiki Blogging 1 Comment

Angelica Navarro - Adventures In Tiki

Texas is big—really BIG!

There’s more to the Lone Star State than oil drills and cowboys. There’s also Tiki! You just have to know where to look. Luckily, we have Angelica Navarro. If anything Tiki is going on in Texas, she’s going to know! Angelica lives deep in the heart of Dallas and she writes about her Tiki adventures in her blog appropriately called…

Adventures In Tiki!

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