Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #53 Atomic Bikini Grotto – Springfield OR

The first time I visited Duke and Lola’s home bar, it was a cigar lounge and whiskey bar called the Elephant Head Bar. It had a really great vibe, but I thought that as cool as the bar was, it would be so much cooler if it was a tiki bar! Well, they must have read my mind because that’s exactly what they did. In between filming videos for their BossaNova Life channel, they converted their home bar into a secret tiki escape called the Atomic Bikini Grotto! Here is their story …

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #52 Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge – Wichita KS

I like my tiki escapism with a little bit of time travel thrown in …

When you enter Dawn and Bill’s tiki bar, you’re not only walking into a tiki bar, you’re walking back in time. Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge was designed like a home tiki bar that would have been built back in the sixties. You got wood paneling covering the walls, a checkerboard tiled floor … and did I mention a bowling score table?

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #51 Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto – Sunrise FL

Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto

When most people in Florida think of a tiki bar, they think of a thatched bar that’s bright and open, not a traditional tiki bar that’s dark and mysterious. Cacalito knew what a tiki bar should be and created his own. After traveling the country visiting tiki bars for “research”, he got to work transforming his man cave into Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto!

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