Mug from THE LANAI in San Mateo - Trade - Collecting Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Fri, Jan 3, 2003 5:51 PM The strip mall building that housed the second (resurrected) Lanai is still there. Only now it's a Chinese/Japanese buffet. Actually pretty cheap and pretty good - we go there for lunch from work sometimes, thanks to having found it from BigBro's suggestion about the address. But almost all signs that it was once the second coming of the Lanai are gone, inside and out. Except there's still some lava rock on the exterior and a smallish tropical-ish waterpool thing by the bar - otherwise it's been pretty thoroughly blandified. On the original topic, Brian, I'm always looking for Lanai stuff, since it's sort of my home-field tiki legend, but no dice on that mug you're talking about. I don't even have the menus or much else. I do have some scans of old pictures that I'll post sometime though. -Randy

The strip mall building that housed the second (resurrected) Lanai is still there. Only now it's a Chinese/Japanese buffet. Actually pretty cheap and pretty good - we go there for lunch from work sometimes, thanks to having found it from BigBro's suggestion about the address. But almost all signs that it was once the second coming of the Lanai are gone, inside and out. Except there's still some lava rock on the exterior and a smallish tropical-ish waterpool thing by the bar - otherwise it's been pretty thoroughly blandified.

On the original topic, Brian, I'm always looking for Lanai stuff, since it's sort of my home-field tiki legend, but no dice on that mug you're talking about. I don't even have the menus or much else. I do have some scans of old pictures that I'll post sometime though.

-Randy

Post #18030 by aquarj on Fri, Jan 3, 2003 5:51 PM