Tiki culture, bars , and restaurants....good fun or crass homogenization of someone else's culture?

http://www.questiki.com/

Typified by lots of bamboo, Easter Island heads, fruity drinks, and ukeleles.

I'm getting my tiki on tomorrow night, with a group of friends and my son. New restaurant near where I live. I've been there once, during the day. Great drinks, decent food, at least what I sampled anyway. On the weekends they have entertainment-bands, hula dancing, etc.

Not Crap as cheap'n'cheesy decor. Not Crap when pineapple pork and crazy colored booze is served. AFAIK no Hawaiians were harmed in the exploitation of this culture. Big Kahuna masks rule. Great environment for screwing secretaries.

Not Crap!

Boombats wrote:Not Crap as cheap'n'cheesy decor. Not Crap when pineapple pork and crazy colored booze is served. AFAIK no Hawaiians were harmed in the exploitation of this culture. Big Kahuna masks rule. Great environment for screwing secretaries.

Not Crap!

Cheesy decor yes, but not necessarily cheap decor. The new restaurant I spoke of, though small, really went all out decorating. 4-5 foot tall Easter Island/Tiki style heads all around the whole restaurant, an Island style canoe wall carving that looked very elaborate, tons of bamboo and carvings everywhere.

not crap. hala kahiki is great...

looking forward to checking out the new bottom lounge's version of this, whenever they get around to opening.

hench wrote:not crap. hala kahiki is great...

looking forward to checking out the new bottom lounge's version of this, whenever they get around to opening.

I had never heard of Hala Kahiki before-I must investigate.

This is the place that opened not far from where I live-Tiki Terrace in Des Plaines: http://www.thetikiterrace.com/

the Foundation in Milwaukee is great (but not as cool as it once was) fun tiki-drinks on Tuesday night, and the GF loves it...

We almost had a Zombie Tiki party last summer. I was going to have an all you can drink Zombie bar and play a lot of Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman records and dress like the walking dead.

Not Crap

I'm glad summer is almost here.

I have been here and it was great.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/chef-shangri-la-riverside

Webley Edwards?!

*raises glass of spiced rum and condensed milk*

NC!

not crap, makes me think of Shag's paintings...