Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #140 The Sunset Fogcutter – Victoria BC

Sunset Fogcutter

Josh and Susan recently moved to Victoria BC from San Francisco. While living in the Bay Area, they had many tiki bars to choose from, they could go to a different tiki bar every day of the week and still have more left over! Josh is from Canada and he wanted to move back, so he brought his wife Susan with him and bought a home in  beautiful Victoria BC.

Their house is a “Character Home” which means it was built before 1930 that displays unique architectural features from its historical period. These homes are defined by their distinctive elements, including ornate cornices, bay windows, verandahs, and special features like leadlight windows or tiled roofs. Character houses are typically built from weatherboard or brick, offering spacious layouts with four or more bedrooms.

They knew they wanted to build a tiki bar, they just needed to pick a room in their very large house. Josh and Susan settled on a room that used to be a study. Great choice because it gives their tiki bar “The Sunset Fogcutter” a world adventurer/explorer feel. When you step inside The Sunset Fogcutter, you feel like you’re going back in time. Here is Josh and Susan’s story…

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Toratiki – Guest Tiki Bar Review by Tom Hemmen (Victoria BC)

Toratiki

Toratiki, Victoria BC’s only Tiki bar, makes for a fun outing. A long, skinny bar, it is decorated to the nines and has a super-friendly, helpful staff. When we visited on a Saturday night, it was busy but our small group had no trouble getting promptly seated in a booth right across from the bar.

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #122 The Huki Lounge – Victoria BC

The Huki Lounge

I met Shani Thomson at Tiki Kon a couple years ago. She mentionted that she has a home tiki and she lives in Victoria BC. I live in Seattle and getting up to “The Island” can be a little difficult. The best way to get up to Victoria taking The Clipper which is a ferry boat that leaves downtown Seattle and will drop you off in the middle of downtown Victoria. Paul Tanner put together and home tiki bar tour, visiting three home bars including Shani’s! I finally got to see The Huki Lounge which is in Shani’s living room or is it the other way around? Here is Shani’s story of how she got into tiki and the history of The Huki Lounge…

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Tiki VIP #41 Steve Ward – Mai-Tais, Toques and Tikis

While browsing through the video choices on Amazon Prime, I stumbled upon a documentary about the tiki scene up in Winnipeg Canada. It’s called Mai-Tais, Toques and Tikis and it is awesome! I loved this documentary so much that I bought it on Amazon immediately. It’s about thirty minutes long and it leaves me wanting more every time I watch it! The man behind this great tiki documentary is Steve Ward. Here’s his story on how Mai-Tais, Toques and Tikis became a reality …

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Ukexotic – A One Man Exotica Band From Nova Scotia Canada!

Mike Diabo has been playing surf music for a long time with his band Urban Surf Kings. (25 Years!) They are the longest running surf band is Canada. Not only can Mike play guitar, he can also play the ukulele. Mike decided to branch out on his own and do some ukulele driven exotica. Playing all the instruments, Mike released his album Ukexotic and it’s incredible! Here is Mike Diabo’s story …

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #26 The Lime Lounge Montreal, CA

The Lime Lounge

For a relationship to work, you need to have things in common. For Gen and Jim, their common interest is Tiki. Their love of Tiki Pop snowballed into one of the coolest Mid-Century home Tiki bars I’ve seen! Their place is called the Lime Lounge and it’s hidden in Gen and Jim’s apartment in Montreal, Canada. Here is their story…

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Unlikely Tiki #2 Josie And Mike Johnston (Canadian Metalheads)

What kind of music do you like?

This sounds like a simple question, but it’s actually a loaded question—or at least it was back in the ’80s. There was a lifestyle that went along with the music you listened to. There were very distinct silos that were happening at the same time and seldom crossed paths. There were the new wavers, the goths, the punks, and of course, the metalheads. Now that I think about it, there was a big difference between someone who was a fan of Bon Jovi and someone who loved Slayer! I personally fell into the metalhead camp and so did Josie and Mike.

Josie and Mike live in Canada. They were and still are into metal and hard rock. Along the way they discovered Tiki. Here is their story…

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