Kona Tiki Restaurant, Severna Park, MD (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

JD Johnny Dollar Tiki Socialite Flyover, Missourah Joined: Oct 01, 2003 Posts: 3159	JD Johnny Dollar Posted posted on Wed, May 1, 2013 1:26 PM Name:Kona Tiki Restaurant Type:restaurant Street:Ritchie Highway at McKinsey Road City:Severna Park State:MD Zip:21146 country:USA Phone: Status:defunct Description: The Kona Tiki Restaurant a.k.a. the Kona-Tiki Restaurant operated in the Severna Park Mall in Severna Park, Maryland from as early as 1976 until as late as 1992, when the Severna Park Mall filed chapter 11 and the the owners proceeded to demolish the majority of the 35-store enclosed mall to build a "super strip center." The site is presently the Severna Park Marketplace (575 Ritchie Highway, Severna Park, MD 21146). The Kona Tiki was a modest asian restaurant in a modest one-story shopping mall. The entrance from the interior of the mall to the restaurant was flanked by tikis and had smoked glass doors. The interior was tiki mostly by decor such as masks, peacock chairs, and plastic palm trees, plus some bamboo. The owners were Chack Foo Lee and Chui Kuen Lee, who are Vietnamese by account of the Baltimore Sun (December 22, 1976). The cuisine style was Szechuan. Several other accounts both in the Baltimore Sun and the Anne Arundel County Sun (October 5, 1987) noted citations for underage drinking and the aforementioned closing of the Severna Park Mall. There appear to be no extant menus, swizzles, matchbooks, or marked mugs to date.

Name:Kona Tiki Restaurant
Type:restaurant
Street:Ritchie Highway at McKinsey Road
City:Severna Park
State:MD
Zip:21146
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
The Kona Tiki Restaurant a.k.a. the Kona-Tiki Restaurant operated in the Severna Park Mall in Severna Park, Maryland from as early as 1976 until as late as 1992, when the Severna Park Mall filed chapter 11 and the the owners proceeded to demolish the majority of the 35-store enclosed mall to build a "super strip center." The site is presently the Severna Park Marketplace (575 Ritchie Highway, Severna Park, MD 21146).

The Kona Tiki was a modest asian restaurant in a modest one-story shopping mall. The entrance from the interior of the mall to the restaurant was flanked by tikis and had smoked glass doors. The interior was tiki mostly by decor such as masks, peacock chairs, and plastic palm trees, plus some bamboo.

The owners were Chack Foo Lee and Chui Kuen Lee, who are Vietnamese by account of the Baltimore Sun (December 22, 1976). The cuisine style was Szechuan. Several other accounts both in the Baltimore Sun and the Anne Arundel County Sun (October 5, 1987) noted citations for underage drinking and the aforementioned closing of the Severna Park Mall.

There appear to be no extant menus, swizzles, matchbooks, or marked mugs to date.

Post #676247 by Johnny Dollar on Wed, May 1, 2013 1:26 PM