Post #592059 by TikiTomD on Fri, Jun 3, 2011 8:01 AM

The news archives I could locate on the Aloha Restaurant span from early 1958 to the middle of 1965. The exotic graphics of the matchbook cover beckon, but if you expected tiki drinks to go with that Polynesian pu-pu platter, you'd be sorely disappointed, as this place apparently did not have a liquor license. In fact, the earliest archival record I could find indicates that city officials voted to deny the Aloha even a beer and wine license...

The Miami News January 21, 1958

This had to have made for a marginal existence, compared to its magnificent neighbor, the Luau in Miami Beach, which shared billing adjacent to it in the Miami dining guides. Here's an early ad for the Aloha...

The Miami News July 27, 1958

Between the ad above and the last archival record I could locate of its existence (below), the Aloha surfaced for a relatively few club meetings in print...

The Miami News June 4, 1965

-Tom