The Castaway, Burbank, CA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Nov 2, 2012 2:12 PM It once boasted a pretty impressive entrance... Nowadays it is completely generified, with only a few shell lamps as reminders of the theme. The outdoor patio fire pits are pretty cool, but the rest is 80s hotel blandness, just like the other surviving Polynesian examples of the SpecialtyRestaurants/Talichet chain (Ports O' Call, The Reef, Shanghai Red's aka Pieces of Eight). They are functioning "function" destinations for corporate parties and weddings and such, with their customers having no inkling what the name once related to.

It once boasted a pretty impressive entrance...

Nowadays it is completely generified, with only a few shell lamps as reminders of the theme. The outdoor patio fire pits are pretty cool, but the rest is 80s hotel blandness, just like the other surviving Polynesian examples of the SpecialtyRestaurants/Talichet chain (Ports O' Call, The Reef, Shanghai Red's aka Pieces of Eight). They are functioning "function" destinations for corporate parties and weddings and such, with their customers having no inkling what the name once related to.

Post #657550 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Nov 2, 2012 2:12 PM