Post #573620 by TikiTigress on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 9:51 AM

Friends and I will soon be opening a tiki bar and soon-to-be brewery in southern Michigan. We're having trouble naming the bar and would love suggestions. Care to help us?

The bar is landlocked on pretty flat land in a small town where names like "Tavern" or "Bar" can scare away the locals. We'd like to avoid that. The bar is on a main highway and not far from a metropolitan area, so we'd like a name that might attract travelers. The interior has a lot of bamboo, surf boards, tropical plants, a toy parrot and lots of hibiscus flowers. The exterior is being updated and will include a lot of live bamboo plants, native grasses, possibly a palm tree (if we can find one that will tolerate zone 5). We are building an outdoor seating area with horseshoe pits, sand and thatched umbrellas.

The cuisine is standard pub fare plus a bit of mediterannean and mock-polynesian foods. There's a tiki drink list of 9 standards, and then there are the microbrews. We're working on tiki-fied beer recipes for our own brewery, but will also carry Michigan microbrews in bottles.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[ Edited by: TikiTigress 2011-01-28 09:53 ]