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Sneaky Tiki San Francisco NOT OPEN! July 2006
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 11:18 AM
Some second hand information (originating from someone who lives above the old Hamburger Mary's space in San Francisco) is that the bar going in there at 12th and Folsom will be called the Sneaky Tiki. Have a nice Tiki Day! UPDATE; THE BAR IS NOW open!! it is closed! [ Edited by: mrsmiley 2006-07-22 11:16 ] |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 11:49 AM
The guys at work are calling me Sneaky Tiki today! |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 1:04 PM
Which corner is it on? There are about 5 bars in that 1 block area. Is it the big space on the southwest corner that becomes a new dance club every 6 months? They had a transparent dance floor over a lighted pool at one time. Seems the location is cursed and will never be successful. |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 1:16 PM
Hmmm, Curse of the Sneaky Tiki... sounds like I movie I've watched recently |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 1:17 PM
They could at least come up with an original name. |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 2:28 PM
Perhaps "Soon-to-be-Closed-Tiki" didn't sit too well with investors. I've always had the vibe that this place was owned by gangsters or the Mafia or some such group. In my 16 years in the Bay Area, it's never been the same club for 2 years. Maybe it's a front for money laundering, in which case "Sneaky" is apropos. |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 2:56 PM
yes, like Sneaky TikiS !! (plural) tee hee. |
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mrsmiley
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 2:58 PM
My error--it is in the old Hamburger Mary's location which was at 12TH and Howard (not 11th). |
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mrsmiley
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 2:59 PM
Yes , like "Otto Von Stroheim's Sneaky Tiki" ---just spreading false rumors!!! |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 3:43 PM
mr. smiley - you know claiming to have 'insider information' won't be getting you invited into the tikifight club, so just knock it off already :wink: We were just talking about Hamburger Mary's. They had great bloody marys, and a cute boy I knew from Philadelphia worked there.... |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 3:46 PM
lot's of "cute" boys worked at the SF one, too. (if ya know what I mean!) |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 3:53 PM
Yes, Yes I DO! he was a cute boy FROM Philadelphia, who worked at SF HM. He played in a punk rock band and he smooched me good one night.... but I digress...so, otto is opening a tiki bar?? |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 4:06 PM
---I made up the Otto / Sneaky TIki rumor. I do know that if Otto ever opens up a tiki bar he will use a more original name, like "Tiki Bob's and Otto's" tee hee |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 4:11 PM
---I made up the Otto / Sneaky TIki rumor. I do know that if Otto ever opens up a tiki bar he will use a more original name, like "Tiki Bob's and Otto's" tee hee---- I know, I asked him, and he said that when I win the Lottery and fund it, it'll happen. SO, ANY day now... "You're the mayor of shark city, people think you want the beaches open." [ Edited by: mrs. pineapple on 2005-03-07 16:13 ] |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 4:37 PM
What's so sneaky about Otto's Tiki anyway?...and how would you know? |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 5:01 PM
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 5:06 PM
great. now I've got "midnight at the Oasis" stuck in my head, among other things... |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 5:10 PM
What's this about Otto opening a Punk Tiki bar in Philidelphia? |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 5:47 PM
midnight at the Oasis, sing your tiki to bed!!! [ Edited by: mrsmiley on 2005-03-07 17:48 ] |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 10:41 PM
I wonder how many more tiki bars SF can absorb? Hopefully this one won't have heavy metal blaring like my last try at the north beach "tiki" spot. Come to think of it my recent visit to the Lucky Tiki down south was also plagued by loud metal. |
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Mon, Mar 7, 2005 10:47 PM
I heard Otto is getting out of tiki and into Beanie Babies... first rule of BBFC... :) |
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Tue, Mar 8, 2005 6:54 AM
I don't know where this was but apparantly "Joe" had a Sneaky Tiki. |
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Tue, Mar 8, 2005 10:21 AM
Back in the good old days (late 70s, early 80's) there wasn't much down there. Industrial spaces and offices. Some artist studios .( the starving type ) and performance spaces. Worth your life to take the wrong turn. At night it was a counter-culture no man's land and Hamburger Mary's was a kind of starting point for your exciting evening activities. Very gay, but not to the exclusion of everyone else. You could even get a parking place down there back then (if you had a car which no one did). While strolling the area in the wee hours you would see home made S&M parlors and secret bath houses and lots of guys with big mustaches wearing black leather biker attire. Then the yuppie infestation started. Old warehouses became "showplaces" and everyone trying to "buy" cool moved their offices there so of course it no longer was. Later the tech thing happened and people were suddenly millionaires. the atmosphere died There were a few hold outs, but they didn't really make it either. First the artsy community got pushed to the east bay, but people who didn't grab hold of something soon scattered to Sacramento, Los Angeles, Seattle and who knows where. Just my take on things, but probably pretty right on. Not that some of the millionaires don't have the right stuff, but it just ain't the same. Still, a new tiki bar is always a beautiful thing. [ Edited by: spy-tiki on 2005-03-08 10:32 ] |
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Tue, Mar 8, 2005 10:34 AM
[ Edited by: spy-tiki on 2005-03-09 20:53 ] |
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Wed, Mar 9, 2005 7:10 PM
SpyTiki: You forgot the Gift Center. That was the San Francisco of my pre-tiki college days (heading over the bridge from Cal). I frequently hung out in that neck of the woods in the mid-80s, where I became a regular at DNA. True, it was the location of Many, many after-hour underground clubs and, at the time, another more established restaurant. The place where the mustached gentlemen were going (after hanging on Ringold Street) was named "the Eagle." The times we had! |
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Wed, Mar 9, 2005 7:14 PM
I think the saturation point will not occur until there are twice as many tiki bars as there are Irish pubs. |
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Tue, May 24, 2005 1:55 PM
I just heard from someone "in the know" that this bar is owned by the same guy who owns Lime and several other bars in SF. Also it won't be all that "tiki" by our definition. |
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Tue, May 24, 2005 2:14 PM
Maybe that is the "sneaky" part-that it isn't "Tiki". |
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martiki
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Fri, Jul 15, 2005 11:31 AM
Sneaky Tiki Sneaky Peeky: |
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Fri, Jul 15, 2005 12:19 PM
Oh, this is the new sports bar we were talking about the other night... :wink: |
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Fri, Jul 15, 2005 12:49 PM
They are having an open call for employee applications Today until 1pm and Sunday July 17 from 3-6 pm. Again it is at 12th and Folsom across from Manora's Thai restaurant . |
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Tue, Jul 19, 2005 12:54 PM
It looks like one of my good friends is going to be the bar manager there, so if that pans out, I'd like to host a little Tiki party and dancefest to break the place in. Any interest out there? |
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Tue, Jul 19, 2005 1:05 PM
of course! |
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Tue, Jul 19, 2005 5:55 PM
Don't mean to get off topic but has anyone ever heard of "Sneeki Tiki?" I found this glass a while back and have wondered where it's from. Search on TC reveals nada and google tells me that there was a video slot machine called "Sneeki Tiki." Anyone? |
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Tue, Jul 19, 2005 6:26 PM
the design looks a little "adult entertainment" oriented... perhaps it was a strip joint? |
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Fri, Sep 2, 2005 2:20 PM
Martiki and I checked out the new Sneaky Tiki at 12th and Folsom in SF last night for a private, invite only free event. |
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mrsmiley
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Fri, Sep 2, 2005 2:21 PM
let us know. |
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Fri, Sep 2, 2005 3:51 PM
it sounds interesting~ so the real question is: is it tiki enough to be added to the annual SF Crawl? |
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Fri, Sep 2, 2005 4:44 PM
I doubt it. It is too Nouveau Tiki Lite. If Tiki Central ever turns into "Club Tiki" the tiki website for hip, clubgoers, then it will be a great choice! :) |
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Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:13 PM
here is a slogan I thought of..."Not your father's tiki bar!" You can substitute "grandfather" depending on how young you are. |
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Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:38 PM
***EDITED 11/15: The original opening paragraph of this post, upon further review, is poorly worded and inappropriate. I apologize for my sanctimonius tone. I should have in NO WAY implied that tiki enthusiasts are more "decent" than anyone else, because that simply isn't true. Yes, Sneaky Tiki is not what the tiki enthusiants of this website would call tradtional and probably wouldn't be their cup of tea. But that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of people out there who will love the Sneaky Tiki and should. I wish the Sneaky Tiki all the success in the world. I hope they do well. I still feel that I was sneered at for wearing a hawaiian shirt in a room full of black-clad urban hipsters. I still don't think it's unreasonable to wear a little aloha to a tiki bar. I will suggest to my fellow SF Tiki Crawl planners that we reconsider the Sneaky as a destination, but as it's still quite far removed thematically from the atmosphere of, say, the Tonga Room or Bamboo Hut, and I doubt that it will happen for that reason alone. **Unedited original post follows: I doubt this place will make the SF crawl. I just don't want a bus load of decent tiki folk to be subjected to the disdainful sneers of a bunch of lousy SF hipsters. Not worth the visit. My feelings are the same as Bruce's- it's very sleek, with some nice decorative touches, but it's very, very stylized and modern. The food is great, so that's a big plus. And they do use fresh lime juice, which is also excellent. Drink Menu as follows: Hula Colada (pina colada) $13 for 22 oz (!) Lychee Cosmo $9 Tiki Tai $16- you keep the glass two-face disney-style mug- but, fair warning, it's a terrible drink. Sneeky Peeko Punch $8 (Hibiscus flavored- not bad) Island Ice Tea $14 (22 oz) Long Island Ice Tea with a mango float Blue Lagoon $8 (orange vodka, blue curacao, sour mix, 7 up, fresh lime) Passion Margarita $8 (tequila, passion fruit sorbet, fresh lime) The Fish Bowl $15 (for two, so-so. I asked for more lime juice and it helped) Here's some pictures:
[ Edited by: martiki 2005-09-07 19:38 ] [ Edited by: martiki 2005-11-15 11:26 ] |
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Thu, Sep 8, 2005 1:42 PM
At those prices the drinks should be better! What kind of rum do they use in the drinks? |
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Sat, Sep 17, 2005 9:34 AM
But the really important question...What do the swizzle sticks and matchbooks look like? |
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Sat, Sep 17, 2005 10:42 AM
Here's the top of their swizzle: |
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Sat, Sep 17, 2005 8:16 PM
Here's a review doen by the Chron: Tiki torches light up SoMa Sneaky Tiki snuck into SoMa last week, lighting its torches at the space Sneaky Tiki, 1582 Folsom St. (at 12th Street), San Francisco; (415) |
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Sun, Jul 2, 2006 5:39 PM
Is Sneaky Tiki in San Francisco going going gone ? [ Edited by: Buster 2006-07-02 17:40 ] |
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Wed, Jul 19, 2006 2:07 PM
From today's San Francisco Chronicle ...Tiki was hot last year, but the trend might be winding down. San Francisco's Sneaky Tiki (1582 Folsom St., at 12th Street), opened by Greg Bronstein and Craige Walters, closed a few weeks ago. "The area is really hard," says Walters, who also designed the space. "We were packed on the weekends, but completely dead Monday through Wednesday. We just couldn't survive on three days a week." Vern |
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Wed, Jul 19, 2006 4:02 PM
Scoff... Tiki (done right) is still hot!! It's the drinks and ambience, not the theme that gives a bar longevity. I visited Sneaky Tiki once. I repeat once. Both drinks and service were shoddy!! [ Edited by: Conga Mike 2006-07-19 16:02 ] |