Post #42040 by donhonyc on Mon, Jul 7, 2003 8:46 PM

Wow. I have a couple of friends that grew up in Columbus, and they told me what it was like in the Kahiki and I thought maybe it had Mai Kai beat by a notch, but after reading Jeff Central's post I stand corrected. I can't tell you how many millions of times I drove past the Mai Kai when I was in high school and never went in. Imagine!! Now that I haven't lived in Ft. Lauderdale for 17 years, I wish the place was closer. I'll be back there before the year is over though, that's for sure. As far as structural damage goes, the only thing I noticed, maybe a year or so ago, was some damage/repairs going on in the Molokai bar up front. The water was turned off on the 'hurricaine effect' too, but that was fixed by the time I visited again last December. I don't remember the tikis being in bad shape when I walked through the garden, although I do think they 'cleaned up' one of the big tikis for the kids by cutting his 'thing' off. Or maybe that was just somebody grabbing a souvenir, if yaknowhaddimean. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.

THE MAI KAI KICKS ASS