Post #58813 by seamus on Thu, Nov 6, 2003 5:53 PM

In Eugene Oregon there is a lame college hangout called Kokomo's Bar and Grill - it's written up in TRT. We stopped in there for lunch last month to check it out, and it's the same type of thing. A mish mash of "island style" decor with some bamboo around the booths and a few decent but hard to find Tikis hidden in the corners. Like I said, it was lame, BUT, much like Minnesota, we don't have alot of Tiki establishments to choose from around here, and I haven't been up to Portland in quite awhile, so even though the place kinda sucked it was also kinda nice to have a Hula burger in a bamboo booth with a couple of Tikis standing watch.

Do I wish they would've done it right and made a proper Tikibar- damn straight.

Would the average College age patron care if it was done right? NO (tiki wha???)

Will I go back ? Perhaps for lunch. But not anytime soon. (The lunch specials were CHEAP!)

Sometimes lame Tiki is better than no Tiki at all, so I can appreciate what Tiki Mon is trying to say, But I'm gonna have to side with the orthodox Tiki fundamentalists on this one. Especially on this site. What do you think would happen if some jackass opened an Irish Pub and then decorated it with a bunch of British flags and decor. The average dopey patron may not notice, but I know a few Irishmen that wouldn't think twice about burning the place down!