Post #706286 by LoriLovesTiki on Thu, Jan 30, 2014 7:51 PM

Thought I'd give Otto's thread a little bump. My husband and I went to Otto's Shrunken Head last Saturday night. We arrived at 6pm and it was snowing, which may have worked to our advantage. Plenty of street parking.

Otto's is definitely "dive bar meets tiki." But since we're severely lacking in all things tiki in the area, it was worth the trip. Came home with 4 tiki mugs, which makes it a good day in my book. Other than Otto's custom mug and their anniversary mug, the rest of the mugs are made in China generic variety. But since I didn't have a suffering bastard I got one of those. For $5 for the generic mugs it couldn't be beat.

There are a bunch of pufferfish lamps hanging over the bar and cozy leatherette booths across. There's a vintage photobooth and for $5 you can buy a token for a strip of 4 B&W pictures. There's some big tikis in the front window but the bar area doesn't have a ton of tiki elements. Over the bar itself is a thatched canopy. By the time I went to the ladies room and peeked into the back room a band was playing and the place was packed so I didn't see much.

The drinks are strong. I had an Otto's Shrunken Head which I found tasty and a mai tai which wasn't good on first sip but grew on me as the alcohol hit. (LOL)

The color on the 1st picture is a better representation of the color of the Otto's mug.