Post #259514 by Chub on Fri, Oct 6, 2006 8:59 PM

I went to Jimmy Lum's with a few friends (Freddy and Amy Fortune) for dinner and drinks, maybe five years ago. The front doors had cool handles in the shape of moais. Once inside, it was pretty obvious to us that the place had recently been badly "updated". No tikis anywhere to be seen, except for some more moai handles on the bathroom doors. There was a small dance floor and it looked like there could have been an area for a band at one time, but in it's place was one huge big screen TV. Cool ceiling beams and some thatch on the walls. The bar was in the middle of the restaurant. We ordered a Kava Bowl drink (very good!) and I ordered the Volcano Steak, which came to table totally on fire. After dinner we kinda peeked around and found some very cool pictures mounted on a wall of Jimmy Lum serving drinks to celerities like Milton Berle and others. Most of the pictures looked to be from the mid 60's. We talked to the bartender for a while and found out that she was Jimmy's widow. Apparently Jimmy had died earlier that year and Mrs. Lum was just plain tired of running the restaurant herself, and so it was up for sale. Good thing we got there when we did, because two weeks later the place was closed for good. I haven't been there since. Let us know if you go up there and see what's going on with it now.