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The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar is a restaurant and tiki bar in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel in Nob Hill, San Francisco, California. Named after the South Pacific nation of Tonga, this dining and entertainment venue opened in 1945. [1] [2] The Tonga Room replaced the Terrace Plunge, an indoor swimming pool that was installed in the Fairmont ...
Tiki mugs. As the term is used generically, "tiki mugs" are ceramic drink vessels traditionally shaped as tikis, Easter Island statues (moai), shrunken heads, totems, coconuts, skulls, or in other Hawaiian, exotic, retro, or pirate-themed styles. [109] [9] The name of the bar is often listed on the back of the mug or its bottom. Wood may also ...
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Hilton Head’s iconic beach bar, the Tiki Hut, is reopening May 24 with a larger structure and expanded live music, food, drink and lounging options, according to Beach House general manager Jay ...
The book has been called "pivotal" for popularizing the tiki theme as well as giving bartenders the recipes they needed to attract a new generation of customers. [8] [9] The Tonga Hut, Los Angeles's oldest tiki bar, offered customers a Grog Log Challenge: to drink, within a year, all 78 cocktails whose recipes are printed in the Grog Log. [10] [11]
Mugs meant to emulate a tiki carving, what some would consider to be a "true" tiki mug, did not come to the United States until the late 1950s. [ 4 ] A little-known antecedent (and the possible inspiration) of these earliest US tiki mugs and other later US tiki-motif tableware, is a range of mid-century modern ceramic ware from New Zealand ...