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It seems like the 20th century phenomenon of tiki bars would have emerged organically, with no sole progenitor, but a quick online search always turns up the late, supposedly Texas-born bar owner Donn ...

Dreams of ghosts and forgotten Tiki bars can linger much longer than the manifestations themselves. Was there really a lush confection of thatch and bamboo hiding in the back of a run-down strip mall ...

Authenticity can be a fraught notion in the dining world, with so many different and subjective standards, but it can seem almost antithetical when applied to Tiki. An all-American, midcentury mash-up ...

That starts before your first whiff of rum. The design at Latitude 29 is a mosaic of carved wood, bamboo, thatch, hut-shaped booths and hanging glass floats, an essential act of Tiki scene-setting ...