Post #150835 by Tiare on Sat, Apr 2, 2005 11:43 AM

At the beginning of March I flew to Chicagoland to see my family and my parents took me out for my b-day dinner to the Canoe Club. This is a new tiki influenced restaurant with food in the Trader Vic's vein. When we got there the place was packed. We got seated right away though. The inside is really nice. There is a fish tank behind the hostess desk, then behind that is a dining room with a huge wall waterfall with changing colors. On either side of the waterfall are wine bottles and a tiki face carving at the top. There was another dining room behind that. And there was also a huge bar that has a very large shark tank in it. Not lots of tikis up but very nice, some tapa cloth on the walls as well.

We started off with a mai tai and a drink I think was called the Lava flow and flatbread. I had the scallops on top of pasta, I think my dad had chicken and my mom had prawns. All were very good. They have cheap, tiny desserts for $2.25 that are served in tall shot glasses. We had pineapple bread pudding, key lime pie and chocolate mousse. All good as well. We rolled out of there and walked into the separate bar to see the shark tank. Huge bar that was packed. When we left at 8:30pm I overheard a man saying it was a 2 hour wait for dinner. This place was pretty large and packed. I guess they are going to open 5 other locations in Chicagoland at some point.

I thought the decor was nice, could of course use some more tikis. Here I some photos I took. This is the first time i have tried to post photos, so bare with me: