What do you do when you when you don’t like to go out and rather stay home? Well, if your Gwen Rosewater, you paint! Velvet paintings to be exact. Gwen’s velvet paintings are truly amazing and if you’re interested in buying one of your own, you can find her as Velvetiki on Esty. Here is Gwen’s story…
Guest Tiki Bar Review – The Honu By Tom Hemmen (Dunedin FL)
The day before we flew out from Florida we decided to squeeze in one last Tiki bar, and drove from Bradenton to the charming little walking town of Dunedin on the Gulf of Mexico…
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Guest Tiki Bar Review – Bahi Hut And Siesta Key Rum Distillery By Tom Hemmen (Sarasota FL)
Having investigated what is possibly Florida’s newest Tiki bar in St. Petersburg, Jeanie and I next checked out Florida’s oldest Tiki bar in Sarasota, the 1954 Bahi Hut …
Dr. BBQ – Burnt Ends Tiki Bar – Guest Tiki Bar Review By Tom Hemmen (St. Petersburg FL)
Burnt Ends Tiki Bar is possibly the newest Tiki bar in Florida. It is a speakeasy-style offshoot of a pre-existing business – Dr. BBQ in Saint Petersburg, Florida – and so, this is effectively a two-part review, the first part of which is not tiki.
Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #87 The Hatches – Seattle WA
Batten Down The Hatches!
Welcome to The Hatches. It’s Ken Herold’s home tiki bar located in the Seattle neighborhood of Leschi, which is only a couple minutes away from my home, so I didn’t have to travel far to visit this awesome bar. The Hatches combines elements of tiki and nautical, and Ken did a great job of mixing the two together. Speaking of mixing, Ken can make a perfect Mai Tai and a Three Dot And A Dash! Here is Ken’s story on how The Hatches came to be …
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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #86 Creeper’s Cove – Kansas City MO
What do you do when the only tiki bar in your city closes, you build your own tiki bar in your home!
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Seattle Sunset Tiki Cruise – On the Hiyu 7/16/2021
Tiki VIP #46 THtikis – Tracy Helber (Tiki Mug Maker)
Tracy Helber has only been selling mugs since the beginning of 2020 and I think the future is looking bright for THtikis. There are some amazing mugs out there being made, although these mugs look especially amazing, sometimes you really have to ask yourself, how do I actually drink out of this!?! Mugs from THtikis are made to do what you’re supposed to do with a tiki mug … Drink out of it! And the mugs have a really cool style that is truly unique.
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Inside Passage – Guest Write Up By Stephen Curran (Seattle WA)
Inside Passage — the new immersive bar on Capitol Hill near downtown Seattle wants to let you know that it is not a tiki bar …
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My “Don’t Tell Ray” Surprise 50th Birthday Party At Devil’s Reef
By the time you read this, I will be fifty years old …
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