A good friend of the bar and local Tiki connoisseur known as the “Careless Navigator” is organising a get-together for Melbournian Tikiphiles and Polynesiacs at none other than our humble bar in Richmond. If you’re one of the Clan, we’d like to extend the invitation on Careless Navigator’s behalf to join these good folk for a Mai Tai or two!

The details are -
Time: 7pm onwards
Date: Saturday May 8th 2010
Attire: Beachcomber casual (aloha-wear optional)

Here’s a handy Facebook Event link!

The Navigator is one of Australia’s movers and shakers when it comes to Tiki Culture and runs a fantabulous Tiki website with an Australian flavour at www.carelessnavigator.com. One need only spend a few moments on his site to see CN’s hardcore Tiki credentials – He’s in with Tiki luminaries such as Marcus Thorn, Martin Cate, Our mate Koop Kooper from the Cocktail Nation Podcast, Beachbum Berry and the good folk from Tiki Farm. The site is full of awesome Tiki stuff and well worth a bookmark or RSS subscription!

Hope to see heaps of fellow Tiki tragics turn up – we know you’re out there…

Tiki Lounge and Bar will be engulfed by the smokey, risque and exotic burlesque-inspired cabaret stylings of Mz Josephine Fisher (http://www.josephinefisher.com/) as accompanied by the laidback lounge/exotica sounds of the Kahuna Daddies.  We’ve been lucky enough to host the Kahuna Daddies before at our humble bar, and Mz Josephine’s reputation preceeds her… just look at her website and try to tell me that this doesn’t sound compelling:

“Mz Josephine’s tendency to reveal more than absolutely necessary has made her a popular entertainer with her customers. Regaling them with saucy songs, anecdotes, dildo dancing, striptease, fabulist story telling and tales of love gone kinky. Mz Josephine was invented to explore the politics of pleasure and to encourage her audiences to be curious about their own.”

We’d love to see you there!  Show should kick off around 9:30pm.  No cover charge! (woo!)

Cheers,

Tiki Lounge and Bar

Package 1 – A Good Start to the Night – $600 – 20 people

This package gets you two “punch size” versions of some of our premium cocktails – An oversized version of our Pirate’s Grog recipe which we call “Davy Jones’ Locker” and is served out of a Treasure Chest, and another drink which is our version of a Pearl Diver Punch which is served out of a giant clam-shell.  These two punches will give you and 20 of your closest friends about 2 drinks each.

Package 2 – Settle in for a Comfortable Evening – $900 – 30 people

This package is suited to groups of around 30 people and gets you about 2 serves of punch each (as in package 1) as well as a spread of food – gourmet Pizzas and toasted sandwiches, Esquidillas (tasty little avocado, tomato and cheese-filled tortilla snacks) and a tropical fruit platter.

If you have more specific needs please feel free to get in touch to discuss options.  Tiki Lounge and Bar is a great venue for parties, birthdays, corporate function, product launches and so on.  If you want to offer  a little bit of “something different” for your friends, colleagues or clients then Tiki Lounge and Bar is the place to do it!  We also have access to a range of different entertainment options from bands to cabaret performances.  Give us a call (9428 4336) or email (info@tikiloungeandbar.com) to discuss your needs.

Cheers,

Tiki Lounge and Bar

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The Facebook group for the Shuffle can be found here.

As strong supporters of Zombie rights, the Tiki Bar will be offering Zombie related cultural entertainment all night (movies on the projector, maybe some Resident Evil or Left 4 Dead… depends on whether Kev is up for donating his Xbox for the evening…).   We’ll  offering drink specials on the night ($4 off Zombie cocktails) to those who attend as Zombies (more out of fear than anything else), so please feel free to dress up!

Here are some scenes from last year’s shuffle…

Just a quick note to let y’all know that the bar will be closed this weekend due to the ANZAC day public holiday along with licensing hoo-haa.

To make up for that, please accept these YouTube videos of the recent Mondo-a-Go-Go event held at the Tiki Bar as a gesture of thanks for your continued support.

Hi All!

Those crazies from Tiki Robot are holding another amazing 60’s themed Mondo-a-Go-Go evening at Tiki Lounge and Bar this Saturday night (April 4th)!  Be on hand for all the beats, boots and ‘bots (robots that is) starting from around 8pm!

Here’s the low-down:

Mondo-a-Go-Go is on again at the Tiki Lounge and Bar, 327 Swan Street Richmond 8pm $8 – Amazing visuals, Yuri the Robot, Bagadelic DJ, Cage Dancers and the best music to Go-Go by. Oh and fabulous cocktails in the amazing experience that is the Tiki Bar and Lounge.

I thought now might be a good time to broadcast a timely reminder that Tiki Lounge and Bar now sports a brand new air-conditioner.  Come down and escape the brutal Melbourne heat and sip on ice-cold Mai Tais and Mojitos.  Alternatively try one of our “Cone of Silence” cocktails – complete with a straw encased completely in a cone of ice!

In searching for an image for this post I came across the one I used on a cool blog of retro stuff from Populuxe Books.  Check it out!

Tiki Lounge and Bar reopens following the Christmas/New Year break on Friday January 9th and we’re straight back into the swing of things!

The incredibly scary yet stylish and alluring girls from the Victorian Roller Derby League will be holding a Trivia night down at TikiLAB on January 9th.  Doors open at 6pm and there is a $6 Cover charge to participate.

Details in the flyer below or at http://www.myspace.com/melbournegrindgirls.

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
TikiLAB Crew

It’s come to the end of another great year for Tiki Lounge and Bar.  We’d like to thank you all for your support during the year, and invite you all to join us for an awesome 2009!   We’ll be shutting down for Christmas with our last night tonight (Dec 20th) and reopening again on January 9th.   In the new year expect some great new stuff from us – we’ve got loads of events in the pipeworks with our all new menu (which we will announce properly soon) and some great bands as well as more of the quirky cabaret you’ve come to expect from TikiLAB (someone at the bar may have even rediscovered the joy of firetwirling, so be forewarned!).

Things to look forward to in the new year include our new menu, a Bettie Page Tribute night some time in the early part of the new year (Rest in Peace) our great new air-conditioner (tropical drinks without the tropical climate), an excellent bar food menu currently being developed in the laboratory, and our new bar service night on a Thursday when we will be putting on some great events for locals and loyal regulars.

Of course we’ve had some great highlights from this year in no particular order:

Inviting a bunch of Zombies from the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle back to the bar for Cocktails and Brains

Filling the venue with Mini-skirted, knee-high-booted GoGo dancers in Cages for Mondo-a-Go-Go

The drink that “The Boss” would drink – our very own Bruce Mangosteen cocktail.

Our hilarious tribute to particle physics – the Large Hadron Colada

The schlock horror stylings of Cinema Exotica

All the great bands who played at TikiLAB throughout the year (special mention to Mariachi Los Romanticos for their efforts on Day of the Dead – both with the music they played and the lovely ladies they danced the night away with after their show!)

And who can forget Purplo’s (the honey cocktail sausage) and our short lived attempt at Cocktails and Snags.

If you have any photos of any misspent nights at the bar, please feel free to email them to photos@tikiloungeandbar.com and we’ll put them up in our gallery.

Once again we’ve all had a ball with all our customers this year and we hope to be able to see some old (and new) faces in the new year!

Merry Christmas,

The Crew at TikiLAB.

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