Post #715857 by Kalakala on Sun, May 4, 2014 1:32 PM

Aloha folks! Long-time visitor, new poster here.

Although I'd been known to kit out my cubical at work with tropical plants, garlands, tiki masks, mugs, and a dashboard hula girl over 13 years ago, I started my tiki adventure in earnest about eight years ago, shortly after I became involved in the broader cocktail revival. The music and the cocktails came first, then little by little the decor started creeping into the home.

I was greatly inspired by a visit to B.G. Reynolds' impressive home bar back in '08 or '09 and, after securing permission from the wahine, I started converting our downstairs spare room into a tiki bar. This was ostensibly in order to prevent the growing liquor collection from taking over the entire house.

I had moved 20 some-odd cases of booze downstairs, started putting up lauhala matting, and was well on the way to my hidden tropical paradise in the basement when the wife asks "So, why didn't you want to put the bar upstairs where it's more convenient and there's more room?" The honest answer was "It never occurred to me that you'd let me!" "Oh, no, I think it would be fun!" Who knew?

So now our former dining room is known as Kalákalá Tú and you can visit its FB page at facebook.com/KalakalaTu.

Hopefully by this summer we'll be ready to start hosting some parties! If you're in the Seattle area, drop me a line!

Mahalo!

~ K2

[ Edited by: Kalakala 2014-05-04 14:24 ]