Cocktailia

It’s that time of year again: Tiki Central just announced Tiki Crawl 9, this year’s annual annual tiki bar crawl around the San Francisco bay area. Taking place July 9 through 12, Tiki Crawl 9 features the best…

San Francisco’s East Bay — the area that includes Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda — has become something of a tiki mecca in recent years. There’s always been a tiki presence here; this is where Trader Vic’s, the birthplace of…

This weekend Tiki Central is hosting its eighth annual Bay area tiki crawl:

Come join in the biggest Bay Area Tiki Bar Crawl yet! Four days! Ten Bars! Savor the world of tiki with visits to

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We didn’t plan on hitting Tiki Ti on our recent trip to LA, but sometimes you just need to tiki it up. We were near a beach, experiencing some real summer weather for a change, and we heard the…

While perusing the Barware, Bar Tools, Barphemera, etc. group on Flickr, I came across an amazing home tiki bar, by someone named Dr. Zarkov (not the Dr. Zarkov?!?).

I’ve long dreamed of having a nice home…

After nearly two years, I finally made it out to Forbidden Island, the new (well, newish) tiki bar in Alameda. Residents of Alameda refer to themselves as “island people”, so a place like this fits in well. (For…

Last summer I had a brilliant idea: Create a Wikipedia-like web site focused on everything tiki: bars, cocktails, whatever. It was going to consist of a Wordpress blog and, of course, a wiki for user contributions. It was going to…

The weather is warming up, and you know what that means: The return of tiki season! We’re not quite there yet, but we’re getting close. To kick off the start of the season, Forbidden Island, a new tiki bar…

Saturday we finally made it to Tiki Ti, widely regarded as the best tiki bar in Los Angeles and one of the few remaining originals.

We tried to go here once before but were foiled by a forgotten <span…

After our disappointing trip to The Temple Bar last month I was beginning to think that Trader Vic’s in Emeryville was our only option for tiki bars in the East Bay. Until yesterday.

Sarai and I were at…