TIKI TRIANGLE
This is a list and documentation of Tiki bars which are here and those that have come and gone. It would be impossible to list them all, especially since they were just as common as pizzerias at one time. After the 1970s most of them died out. Then during the Pandemic of 2020 any of those still standing, including the newest and most promising ones, also faded away. Here are just a few we visited and/or were able to document.
Tiki Bars Currently as of January 2026
- Blue Bar (Aruba)
- Cellar 335 (Jersey City NJ)
- Chopper (Nashville TN)
- False Idol (San Diego CA)
- Frankies Tiki Room (Las Vegas NV)
- Friki Tiki (Manhattan NY)
- Hunan Taste (Denville NJ)
- Jade Island (Staten Island NY)
- Jungle Bird (Manhattan NY)
- Kowloon (Boston MA)
- Lee’s Hawaiian Islander (Lyndhurst NJ)
- Lone Wolf (Kingston NY)
- Mai Kai (Fort Lauderdale FL)
- Mojitos (Aruba)
- Mondo Exotica (Cartagena, Colombia)
- Otto’s Shrunken Head (Manhattan NY)
- Paradise Lost (Manhattan NY)
- Pearl Diver (Nashville TN)
- Pink Dolphin (Cartagena, Colombia)
- Sunken Harbor Club (Brooklyn NY)
- Tiki Chick (Manhattan NY)
- Tiki Loco (Cartagena, Colombia)
- Tiki Rock (Boston MA)
- Tiki Ti (Los Angeles CA)
- Tiki TNT (Washington DC)
- Tonga Hut (Palm Springs CA)
- Trader Sam’s Grotto (Disney World, Orlando FL)
- Wusong Road (Boston MA)
EXTINCT TIKI BARS (Permanently Closed)
- Archipelago (Washington DC)
- Bali Kai (now Izumi Japanese Hibachi in Wayne NJ)
- Black Tail (Manhattan NY)
- Chan’s Dragon Inn (Ridgewood NJ)
- China Gourmet (West Orange NJ)
- China Paradise (Wayne NJ)
- Exotica Night (Manhattan NY)
- Fuchsia Tiki Bar (New Paltz NY)
- Hawaii Kai (Manhattan NY)
- Lam’s (Livingston NJ)
- Lost Lake (Washington DC)
- Lun Wah (Roselle NJ)
- Mother of Pearl (Manhattan NY)
- Polynesian (Manhattan NY)
- Selma’s Bar (Queens NY)
- South Pacific (Pine Brook NJ)
TIKI TV
- Big Bang Theory (Season 9; Episode 16)
- Gilligan’s Island
- Hawaiian Eye
- Hawaii 5-0
- Starsky & Hutch (Season 1; Episode 22)
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