The Island Groove

This photo showed up recently on Instagram. It was posted to the Tonga Room's account with the caption:

"Our beloved house band, @theislandgroove, plays nightly from 8:00 pm. Join us tonight for great live music, cocktails and dancing."

When I was there a few years ago with Warren and Scott, we saw the floating stage but we were there early enough that the band wasn't playing. Would have loved to have seen them. Here are some photos I took in February of 2016 when I was there:

It actually rains in the Tonga Room's lagoon. You can kind of see it here.

Personalized Critiki Maps

The Critiki website now displays on your profile a map of all the tiki bars you say you've been to. Rather cool if you ask me. 

Upon first glance it looks as though I've only been to two, if you zoom in you can see more locations.

For Minneapolis, the tiki icon marks the current Psycho Suzi's Motor Lodge. The "pin" above the tiki icon shows the location of the original Psycho Suzi's which closed in 2004. I made it to the original location only once but have been to the current location multiple times.

For San Francisco, the tiki icon on the left marks The Tonga Room and the one on the right marks Pagan Idol. I'll soon be able to add Adrift in Denver to the map.

Throwback Thursday - Tonga Room

Last year on a trip to California to visit my friend Warren, we visited the Tonga Room in San Francisco. We ordered Mai Tais which turned out to be most fabulous and took in the sights and sounds of the place. What a whole bunch of fun. The place had a pool in the middle of it with a floating stage. Unfortunately there were no musicians playing on it at the time. In addition to all this, it was fixed up to rain over the pool every so often. How cool is that? I found the above photo on Instagram today. 

Tiki Bar Tour

Sunday, February 5, 2017

In a couple weeks I'll be making a California trip to visit my friend Warren who winters there. I'll be staying with him and his friend Scott who lives in Half Moon Bay. We plan to take a trip into San Francisco to visit a few tiki bars. I texted this graphic I made to Warren a few days ago to let him know which bars are at the top of my list.