SoCal Tiki Tour 2012 August 14-18th - California Events

L lunavideogames Grand Member (5 years) San Diego Joined: May 09, 2012 Posts: 1878	L lunavideogames Posted posted on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 11:34 AM Well, national rum day was a blast! Hope yours was good. Beat my daily record for the Tiki Tour with a whopping 9 tiki drinks in one day! We woke up and went straight to Bahooka. This place was awesome. Totally decked out with tons of aquariums, surface to air cannons, bucket lights and kitten puzzles. It is like a tiki dreamland. If you haven't been here, go as soon as you have a chance. They have fish there that are older than me. Got a mug of course, and we ordered some drinks. I liked the fact that they had more drink options than food options. The food was pretty cheap and the portions were big. Not amazing but not bad either. Our waitress was very friendly and told us all about the place and it's history. I didn't know that it was Bahooka at the beginning of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Anyway, I loved the decorations and it gave me a lot of ideas about how I should set up my own bar. We ordered the three food items that had tikis around them. Bahooka Mai Tai * Navy Grog 1/2 Ruffus Bar I forgot to add the Oceanic Arts stop after Bahooka. Oceanic Arts is AMAZING! If you have not been there you should go next time you have a chance. I kept the spending to under $200 because of Tiki Oasis, but I found a bunch of cool things for my Tiki Bar. Ended up with a harpoon as well.. Everyone was super friendly as always. They gave us some freebies too. Very nice people. They told me my wife was too pretty to harpoon, but she demanded it. After that we had a special guest stop, Tiki No! I liked the set up of this place. We got food at the food trucks that are there every Thursday. Some of their drinks reminded me of drinks that I had at Rum Fire in Waikiki. Had a good time and drank a couple drinks. Tiki No Rum Pot * - Recipe: Low Ball glass filled with ice, fill 10 Cane rum up 3/4 of the glass then top off with equal parts Lemon and Honey Zombie * Took a taxi straight from there to Tonga Hut. At first glance it seemed to be not as decorated as other bars. But that is the problem with the tiki tour. You will always judge harsher later. Not all bars can look like Bahooka. Not all drinks can taste like Tiki Ti's. Everyone there was drinking tiki drinks. Lots of people were working on their beachbum lists which I thought was really cool! The bartender was really nice. My brother had one drink and had to leave the tiki tour at that point. A-Bomb joined us for a drink and was the fifth official member of the SoCal Tiki Tour 2012. We all had lots of fun at the Tonga Hut and we would go back for sure. Tonga Hut Navy Grog * Tonga Punch 1/2 Mai Tai with Martinique rum * Voodoo Juice * too much coconut for me One Inch Punch *** the Bruce Lee of shots I hear So it was a busy day. We are all still intact and ready for Sam's and eager to get back to San Diego. More updates coming soon... [ Edited by: lunavideogames 2012-08-20 17:23 ] [ Edited by: lunavideogames 2012-08-20 17:25 ] [ Edited by: Lunavideogames 2012-08-21 01:24 ]

Well, national rum day was a blast! Hope yours was good. Beat my daily record for the Tiki Tour with a whopping 9 tiki drinks in one day!

We woke up and went straight to Bahooka. This place was awesome. Totally decked out with tons of aquariums, surface to air cannons, bucket lights and kitten puzzles. It is like a tiki dreamland. If you haven't been here, go as soon as you have a chance. They have fish there that are older than me. Got a mug of course, and we ordered some drinks. I liked the fact that they had more drink options than food options. The food was pretty cheap and the portions were big. Not amazing but not bad either. Our waitress was very friendly and told us all about the place and it's history. I didn't know that it was Bahooka at the beginning of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Anyway, I loved the decorations and it gave me a lot of ideas about how I should set up my own bar. We ordered the three food items that had tikis around them.

Bahooka
Mai Tai ***
Navy Grog ***1/2

Ruffus

Bar

I forgot to add the Oceanic Arts stop after Bahooka. Oceanic Arts is AMAZING! If you have not been there you should go next time you have a chance. I kept the spending to under $200 because of Tiki Oasis, but I found a bunch of cool things for my Tiki Bar. Ended up with a harpoon as well.. Everyone was super friendly as always. They gave us some freebies too. Very nice people.

They told me my wife was too pretty to harpoon, but she demanded it.

After that we had a special guest stop, Tiki No! I liked the set up of this place. We got food at the food trucks that are there every Thursday. Some of their drinks reminded me of drinks that I had at Rum Fire in Waikiki. Had a good time and drank a couple drinks.

Tiki No
Rum Pot **** - Recipe: Low Ball glass filled with ice, fill 10 Cane rum up 3/4 of the glass then top off with equal parts Lemon and Honey
Zombie ***

Took a taxi straight from there to Tonga Hut. At first glance it seemed to be not as decorated as other bars. But that is the problem with the tiki tour. You will always judge harsher later. Not all bars can look like Bahooka. Not all drinks can taste like Tiki Ti's. Everyone there was drinking tiki drinks. Lots of people were working on their beachbum lists which I thought was really cool! The bartender was really nice. My brother had one drink and had to leave the tiki tour at that point. A-Bomb joined us for a drink and was the fifth official member of the SoCal Tiki Tour 2012. We all had lots of fun at the Tonga Hut and we would go back for sure.

Tonga Hut
Navy Grog ***
Tonga Punch ***1/2
Mai Tai with Martinique rum ****
Voodoo Juice *** too much coconut for me
One Inch Punch *** the Bruce Lee of shots I hear

So it was a busy day. We are all still intact and ready for Sam's and eager to get back to San Diego. More updates coming soon...

[ Edited by: lunavideogames 2012-08-20 17:23 ]

[ Edited by: lunavideogames 2012-08-20 17:25 ]

[ Edited by: Lunavideogames 2012-08-21 01:24 ]

Post #648570 by lunavideogames on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 11:34 AM