(Chiki) Tiki Diablo at South London Pacific - General Tiki

TD Tiki Diablo Member socal Joined: Jun 24, 2002 Posts: 1916	TD Tiki Diablo Posted posted on Thu, Mar 25, 2004 1:32 AM JETLAG...... aaaannnnrrrgggggddjghfg Sven, Yes I carved for Nicolas and he was a true genteleman. I carved him 2 tikis out of OAK! My shoulder was a champ, but the back was tired. Sheesh, I just realized I carved 10 tikis on my "vacation". I am going to get over my jlag in the beach in Laguna(tablerock) . His bar is awesome! everywhwer you look there is a detail you don't notice at first. That is the sort of thing that takes years to do. We had the Best Paella en todo Barcelona! Nicolas(Kahala owner) his childhood friend and I hung out one day while trying to get the log and these guys showed me some spanish hospitality. The man has an interesting story of how he came to own the Kahala. He was a teenage dishwasher there fresh from Uruguay(sp?) and started to work there in the early 70's . The bar at the time was owned by a motorcycle world champion and a design/business man. the business guy buys out the moto guy and takes over the place. Nic is this guys righthand man in no time and the old guy loves Nicolas like a son. Nic is in his 20/30's now and the sells him the bar, on payments ! Nicolas pays the guy off in three years time and has been keeping the place packed with a line down the street since. He also owns this cool upscale bar called Snooker de Barcelona. This is where I carved the tikis at, out in the courtyard. Nicolas father is now elderly, but is the one that bamboo'd the ceiling and did all the bamboo replacements and improvements there a few years ago at the age of 70ish. Andrew was way cool to. he is the American that puts on the world famous Tiki Fiestas in Spain. He came over to check out the carvings in progress and hung out. He organized a hipster swapmeet one day and the missus sold some tiki t-shirts there. SHe had a great time hanging with Andrew and meeting all the coo peeps in Barcelona. We later hooked up with Andrew at the Aloha bar. This place is very cool too and the bar top treatment has got to be one of the most original ones I've seen . It is almost like a reed boat. The bartenders were great gents and had a good time talking with them. We even saw some baby photos of them ! Andrew is the man. There is so much to tell you guys, but I'll stop there for now. [ Edited by: thechikitiki on 2004-03-25 02:11 ]

JETLAG...... aaaannnnrrrgggggddjghfg Sven, Yes I carved for Nicolas and he was a true genteleman. I carved him 2 tikis out of OAK! My shoulder was a champ, but the back was tired. Sheesh, I just realized I carved 10 tikis on my "vacation". I am going to get over my jlag in the beach in Laguna(tablerock) . His bar is awesome! everywhwer you look there is a detail you don't notice at first. That is the sort of thing that takes years to do. We had the Best Paella en todo Barcelona! Nicolas(Kahala owner) his childhood friend and I hung out one day while trying to get the log and these guys showed me some spanish hospitality. The man has an interesting story of how he came to own the Kahala. He was a teenage dishwasher there fresh from Uruguay(sp?) and started to work there in the early 70's . The bar at the time was owned by a motorcycle world champion and a design/business man. the business guy buys out the moto guy and takes over the place. Nic is this guys righthand man in no time and the old guy loves Nicolas like a son. Nic is in his 20/30's now and the sells him the bar, on payments ! Nicolas pays the guy off in three years time and has been keeping the place packed with a line down the street since. He also owns this cool upscale bar called Snooker de Barcelona. This is where I carved the tikis at, out in the courtyard. Nicolas father is now elderly, but is the one that bamboo'd the ceiling and did all the bamboo replacements and improvements there a few years ago at the age of 70ish. Andrew was way cool to. he is the American that puts on the world famous Tiki Fiestas in Spain. He came over to check out the carvings in progress and hung out. He organized a hipster swapmeet one day and the missus sold some tiki t-shirts there. SHe had a great time hanging with Andrew and meeting all the coo peeps in Barcelona. We later hooked up with Andrew at the Aloha bar. This place is very cool too and the bar top treatment has got to be one of the most original ones I've seen . It is almost like a reed boat. The bartenders were great gents and had a good time talking with them. We even saw some baby photos of them ! Andrew is the man. There is so much to tell you guys, but I'll stop there for now.

[ Edited by: thechikitiki on 2004-03-25 02:11 ]

Post #82746 by Tiki Diablo on Thu, Mar 25, 2004 1:32 AM