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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Hukilau, San Jose, CA (restaurant)

Post #107048 by Gigantalope on Sun, Aug 8, 2004 4:20 PM

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On 2004-08-08 16:17, Gigantalope wrote:
Name:hulilau
Type:restaurant
Street:Jackson St (In Japan Town between 4th and 10th)
City:San Jose
State:CA
Zip:95112
country:USA
Phone:
Status:operational

Description:
During a bad storm my wife some friends and I ducked in this place. It was wierd as we are all Tiki Advocates, but none of us knew this spot existed.

It was dingy, and despite being new, seemed seasoned. The bar was sticky the beer selection was trite, but it's still better than Denny's. The tropical drinks were acidy/syrupy.

The place seened to be having a large party of some sort, which may have explaned why there was so much trash on the tables, and poor service.
In the back there were larger rooms. They had a hula uke band, it was quite nice.
The most interesting thing was how all the food I saw had a gelotonous pork theme going on. Seemed pretty authentic to 1970s Hawaii.

They even have a webesite, and are to my surprize an off-shoot of another restaurant.
http://www.dahukilau.com/