TIKI & COCKTAIL BARS
Updated September 9, 2022
This list is ever growing, ever-evolving and before you plan an evening or whole trip around visiting any of these places, be sure they are still there and open for business. The COVID Pandemic has complicated this list even more.
Sometimes it is hard to distinguish a tropical bar from a tiki bar, or a cocktail lounge from a speakeasy. For now, I am just going to list all the noteworthy ones here until I can properly sort them out later. Just click on a link to see where they fall for now.
ALPHABETICAL LISTING
- Alibi Beach Bar & Grill (Stanhope NJ)
- Archipelago (Washington DC)
- Bootlegger Tiki (Palm Springs CA) bootleggertiki.com
- Blue Bar (Aruba)
- Cellar 335 (Jersey City NJ)
- Chan’s Dragon Inn (Ridgewood NJ – CLOSED 2020)
- China Gourmet (West Orange NJ – CLOSED 2020)
- China Paradise (Wayne NJ – CLOSED 2016)
- Chopper (Nashville TN)
- Dead Rabbit (Manhattan NY)
- Death & Company (Manhattan NY)
- Exotica Night at Raines Law Room (Manhattan NY)
- False Idol (San Diego CA) falseidoltiki.com
- Farmers Fishers Bakers (Washington DC)
- Frankies Tiki Room (Las Vegas NV)
- Fuchsia Tiki Bar (New Paltz NY)
- Hawaii Kai (Manhattan NY – CLOSED 1992)
- Hunan Taste (Denville NJ)
- Jade Island (Staten Island NY)
- Jungle Bird (Manhattan NY)
- Kowloon (Boston MA)
- Lam’s (Livingston NJ – CLOSED)
- Lee’s Hawaiian Islander (Lyndhurst NJ)
- Little Buddy Hideaway (Asbury NJ)
- Lost Lake (Washington DC)
- Lun Wah (Roselle NJ – CLOSED 2020)
- Mai Kai (Fort Lauderdale FL)
- Martell’s Tiki Bar (Point Pleasant NJ)
- Miss Lily’s (Manhattan NY)
- Mother of Pearl (Manhattan NY – CLOSED 2020)
- Mojitos (Aruba)
- Nau Frutos do Mar (Joao Pessoa, Brazil)
- Otto’s Shrunken Head (Manhattan NY)
- Paris Creperie Seaport (Boston MA)
- Petrizzo’s Tiki Bar (Bushkill Falls PA)
- Polynesian (Manhattan NY – CLOSED 2020)
- Please Don’t Tell (Manhattan NY)
- Raines Law Room (Manhattan NY)
- Reef Bar (Palm Springs CA) thereefpalmsprings.com
- Room Upstairs (Philadelphia PA)
- Rum House (Manhattan NY)
- Selma’s Bar (Queens NY – CLOSED 2022)
- Silk City (Clifton NJ)
- South Pacific (Pine Brook NJ – CLOSED 1980s)
- Sunken Harbor Club (Brooklyn NY)
- Tiki Chick (Manhattan NY)
- Tiki Philly (Philadelphia PA)
- Tiki Rock (Boston MA)
- Tiki TNT (Washington DC)
- Tonga Hut (Palm Springs CA) tongahut.com
- Trader Sam’s Grotto (Disney World, Orlando FL)
- Vault & Vator (Greenville SC)
- Waitiki (Orlando FL)