“A tiki bar is never finished. Never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.” That’s what Ed Rudisell told me as we toured Inferno Room hours before its Sept. 11 debut in Fountain Square. Rudisell and his ...

It is an unquestionably difficult time for the hospitality industry. Every day, another restaurant shutters, one more bar pulls its steel gate down for good. Since its invention, one kind of watering ...

Tiki bars, despite their purported Polynesian roots, are as California as the Gold Rush and boogie boards. Stepping inside one is being part of Golden State history. After Trader Vic’s opened its ...

In 2012, it was announced that Paul McGee was leaving the Whistler in Chicago. At the time, McGee was one of the leading figures in Chicago’s cocktail renaissance, the kind of bartender whose decision ...

We all know tiki bars and their dozens of classic fruity drinks have provided an escape for generations of Californians. But have you ever stopped to consider tiki bar food? It has its own backstory.

The orgy looks like it’ll start any minute in that grove of coconut palms beyond the luau table, a heap of suckling piglets and pineapples, roast chickens and splayed banana clusters all piled against ...

Lately it’s been feeling like Monsoon season in Mobile, which makes what comes next seem all the more appropriate. It’s Tiki time. Mobile Tiki Week kicks off Monday, Aug. 18 and runs through Saturday, ...