Post #792605 by tikiskip on Tue, Jan 22, 2019 5:11 AM

So I am a tiki snob I have come to find out, or maybe you could say “more true” Tiki fan.

It took years to come to this realization, when I started in the TC tiki group well more a local group than that at first.

We used to make fun of the tiki snob, Sven being the top of this list it was fun to poke fun as a group and you get sucked into the BS as you want to fit in.

BUT as I did this tiki thing myself the tiki snob was just a guy that wanted the real deal.
They were against the types of things that helped kill tiki in the 60s and on, that is the day glo painting of tiki the more kitchy types of tiki crap too.

So I came to find out that I was more like Sven in my version of tiki.

For me I like the old places and will cut them slack on the food and the drinks because they are just not going to be around for that long really.
So see them now.

On the other hand new places must have better food and drinks as they don't have the great old tiki décor in most cases so the food and drink becomes more important the focus.

In writing this I see it may be harder than I thought to say what makes a great Tiki bar restaurant.

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2019-01-22 05:13 ]