New tiki bar - Tiki Room, Landsdowne Street , Boston - Not recommended - General Tiki

T TrixieK Member Boston MA Joined: Jul 01, 2003 Posts: 5	T TrixieK Posted posted on Wed, Jul 2, 2003 12:39 AM Looking at the website it looks like quite the place. http://www.tikiroomboston.com My friends and I don't recommend it. As a tiki enthusiast I found it disappointing. It appears to me as an attempt to take advantage of the resurgence of interest in tiki bar culture without sincere interest behind it. I wanted to like it since it gives mass market attention to the tiki bar, but given it's trendiness and lack of sincerity, I just couldn't. The positives: The food was good and reasonably priced. Build your own pu pu platter concept was interesting. Nice mural on the wall, flaming tikis around the bar. Tiki farm mugs The negatives: It was crowded and loud. The music got louder as the night went on. Even though we were sitting outside, my friends and I could barely hear each other. And the staff has probably never heard of exotica. Drinks were very expensive and weak (scorpion bowl was $22, mai tai $8) and the prices for drinks were deceptively left off the menu. Minimal number of tikis in the establishment. They also had a few unavoidable and bright tv's. I'm interested in writing a full review to submit to the tiki bar review pages. I'd like to know if there are other experiences and opinions about this establishment. Trix

Looking at the website it looks like quite the place. http://www.tikiroomboston.com My friends and I don't recommend it. As a tiki enthusiast I found it disappointing. It appears to me as an attempt to take advantage of the resurgence of interest in tiki bar culture without sincere interest behind it. I wanted to like it since it gives mass market attention to the tiki bar, but given it's trendiness and lack of sincerity, I just couldn't.

The positives:

The food was good and reasonably priced. Build your own pu pu platter concept was interesting.
Nice mural on the wall, flaming tikis around the bar.
Tiki farm mugs

The negatives:

It was crowded and loud. The music got louder as the night went on. Even though we were sitting outside, my friends and I could barely hear each other. And the staff has probably never heard of exotica.
Drinks were very expensive and weak (scorpion bowl was $22, mai tai $8) and the prices for drinks were deceptively left off the menu.
Minimal number of tikis in the establishment. They also had a few unavoidable and bright tv's.

I'm interested in writing a full review to submit to the tiki bar review pages. I'd like to know if there are other experiences and opinions about this establishment.

Trix

Post #41370 by TrixieK on Wed, Jul 2, 2003 12:39 AM