Post #122152 by ZebraTiki on Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:04 PM

A feeble attempt, with good intentions, is better than none at all. At least then, there's room for influence and upgrades. You can change music easily if the clientele isn't responding well to it.

There are two empty restaurant spaces that I see regularly that just scream "Build a tiki restaurant & bar here!" One used to be a really popular hot spot, but the owner lost his lease for letting his liquor license expire, and got busted serving to minors, who subsequently got arrested for drunk driving on their way back home. I have to pass it almost every day, and every day I wish I had unlimited funds to turn it into it's "true" calling.

The second restaurant space has a grand bamboo patio entrance, just a structure over the outdoor dining area, but it's really beautiful. That one is a few streets up from something that calls itself a tiki bar, but features live bands playing AC/DC at full volume ("This one goes to eleven!") in a bar the size of a two-car garage. I have nothing against loud, live heavy metal, but in a small tiki bar? Amusingly, they try to serve dinners there. I can't imagine trying to eat in that atmosphere. However, if that tiki bar closed, I would feel bad, as it's one less attempt at tiki out there, bravely attempting to sell scorpion bowls to heavy metal fans.