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Glorious ideas often take shape at small tables – especially when there’s rum. When you visit Chiselslinger and Sweetbeak’s Rancho Kahiki Tiki Bar, you’ll be overwhelmed by the layers of art, carvings, and nautical items. Every Tiki lamp was salvaged from the Kahiki, yesteryear’s grand Tiki palace that once stood in Columbus, Ohio. Half of […]

Savage Patty is terrified of birds. According to her theory, they exist to peck at your juicy eyeballs. She’s not sure how her fear of feathered fowl first took flight, but it’s likely that watching Hitchcock’s The Birds at an impressionable age didn’t help. Quick tip? Don’t invite Savage Patty to join you at the

What do you do when you find a peace sign on the back of an old Tiki carving? Most of us might assume that some kid from the 1970s likely carved it there as graffiti, but we are not urban archeologists like Corey and his friends. Corey, Brad, and Paul immediately considered the peace sign

Have you ever experienced a perfect day? If someone gave you the ability to re-create a perfect day in paradise, wouldn’t you? Jordan’s perfect day didn’t start off that well. He was having a bad day at work, but managed to muddle through by looking forward to a date he had that night. He had

I got pledge-pinned at the Forbidden Hole. There was no advance notice, no initiation. It just happened so fast. It was so taboo. I’m still thinking about it. The sole purpose of my trip to Omaha was to meet Brad, the amazing manager and head bartender at his Laka Lono, one of the best tiki

There is a Hawaiian legend built around Naupaka, a shrub with beautiful and unique blooms that appear as half-flowers, with petals amputated. The Hawaiians believe it is the incarnation of an ancient wahine separated from her lover. However, I submit to you that this plant’s legend actually originates from the Jungle Flower room of Denver,

Come in, grab a seat. Just make sure that seat is your own. That’s the first joke that Skipper Jeff would tell a new set of explorers as they boarded a Jungle Cruise at Walt Disney World. Working at Disney was one of Jeff’s first jobs, and he stills remembers the entire spiel many years

Sometimes it takes a murder to open a home tiki bar. Well, a murder mystery night, at least. Josh and Ryan were making progress on the Cannibal Cove, their home Tiki bar in Salt Lake City when a friend announced to them that they would be having a Tiki-themed murder mystery party in a few

Mike and Missy are the creators of barbots, robots that make tiki drinks. First they created the BAR-letta. Next came the MaiTaiMatic. Then there was the InEbri8. My inner sci-fi kid was triggered by their work. Asimov must have created laws for just this situation, right? The Three Laws of Barbots? 1: A barbot may

Have you ever played upright bass while standing on a man who is reclining on a bed of nails? Jimmy has. Have you ever been the go-go dancer for a surf band? Lola has. Have you ever put a dog collar on your executive naval officer and told him to bark like a dog? Jimmy