Post #621704 by Creative Chimp on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 8:42 AM

well i used to hang out at the bai hai hut in the 80'-90's...strong drinks but its not very tiki bar....it is smokey as hell just to warn you and thats why i stopped going......youll get lung cancer just sitting in there. the trader vics on fruitville rd in sarasota is ok.....chain like but the food is good..staff is friendly. as a previous poster said...ANYTHING WITH A THATCH ROOF IS TIKI IN FLORIDA.....but we all know better....

there is a new tiki bar out on anna maria island (again just a thatch roof) called gulf drive cafe (link below). its on gulf drive in between the mantee and cortez bridges. oh there is a another place that opened recently called tarpon point grill....in bradenton....

http://www.gulfdrivetiki.com/

http://www.tarponpointegrill.com/index.html

none of this is even in the same category as the mai kai in ft lauderdale....enjoy our warm weather....its not normal this time of year

its NOT tiki but it cool and if you have kids they will love it......it feels like old south florida. its called LINGER LODGE!!!!! full of 1000s of taxidermy gators, snakes, and just a million other florida animals.....creepy and cool at the same time and you can eat gator too...good old fried food.....

http://www.lingerlodgeresort.com/index.asp

[ Edited by: Creative Chimp 2012-01-20 08:54 ]