Tommy Cooper says "get thee to a Fezzery!"

Pop on the hat with the tassel and come along for a night of mysterious fez-tivities and fez fun.

Sip on the delicious Desert Sand and Camel Hump cocktails and immerse yourself into a world of fez exotica.

8pm Friday 10th Fezbruary at Tiki Lounge and Bar, 327 Swan Street, Richmond.

For those looking for inspiration, what’s this?  Is that the entirety of the Laurel and Hardy Classic  ”Sons of the Desert” on YouTube?  Don’t mind if I do!!

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For those not fortunate enough to own a fez of their own and looking for a source of fine, embroidered velvet Fezzes, might we recommend our favourite Fez Emporium, the one and only Fez-o-Rama?  Below are a couple of favourites from their range, but we highly recommend jumping on their site and browsing their wares.

Melbourne’s Tiki Lounge and Bar has dragged itself kicking and screaming into the information age with a new Twitter account!  We’ll be using this as yet another tool to disseminate information about goings-on at the bar.  Now as we start to figure out what the hell to do with a Twitter, you can follow us to offer advice and/or consolation at http://twitter.com/TikiBarMelb.

Comic from the most excellent xkcd.com

Well that snuck up on us!  The Melbourne Zombie Shuffle is on again for 2009.   For those who aren’t aware of this annual event, it’s basically an excuse for Zombie Afficionados to don Zombie costumes and terrorise the good peoples of Melbourne in a good old-fashioned flash mob.  The shuffle kicks off this year at 1pm on Saturday May 9th starting at Carlton Gardens

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…

Hi All,

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 Tiki fans!

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!

Hi All,

You may have noticed that we’ve recently been referring to Tiki Lounge and Bar as “TikiLAB”.   At the time we though this was a cute contraction of the full name of the bar and that, we thought was that.   It has just come to our attention, however, that there was already a site at http://tikilab.com which is home to the Deborah Harry and Blondie Internet Service!  Now we have no desire here at Tiki Lounge and Bar to upset or confuse Blondie fans (we’re quite partial to spinning the Nouvelle Vague version of “Heart of Glass” every now and then down at Tiki), so we’d like to apologise to Louis (who’s a great guy who runs tikilab.com and contacted us to let us know we were inadvertantly stepping on some digital toes).

Now that’s all sorted and all is well for the Internet community.

Cheers,

Tiki Lounge and Bar

 Well Tiki-sters,

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.

Image stolen from picture-book.com

Tiki Lounge and Bar is a very popular venue for parties and other functions.  In the last few months we have helped to host dozens of parties in our recently redressed Bachelor Pad section.   The Bachelor Pad section of the bar is hidden away in the corner of the venue and is dominated by The Most Comfortable Couch in Melbourne™ and the original 50′s style freestanding bar from which we served our first cocktail many many moons ago.

To put cherry on the cake (so to speak) we recently took delivery of a set of back-issues of Bachelor Pad Magazine to help complete the Bachelor Pad experience.

For Functions, the whole  Bachelor Pad (including the dance floor) is able to be curtained off for privacy and can hold around 50 people quite comfortably.  Whilst we don’t yet offer a full bar service from the lovely Bachelor Pad bar, we can offer you your very own bartender serving a selection of beer, wine and soft drink or even a batch of one of our premium cocktails served as a “punch” from either an oversized clam shell or a pirate’s treasure chest.

For food we offer a selection of gourmet pizzas, nibble platters or fruit platters.  For something more extravagant try one of our seafood platters or flambe fruit selections served with delicious flaming Inner Circle rum!  Give us a call so we can help you plan your classy and civilised cocktail party in a unique tropical atmosphere.

Below is a gallery of images from the Bachelor Pad.  Click through to view!

Hi Guys,

You may remember me posting a little while ago about a very clever t-shirt featuring a member of the undead with very specific dietary requirements.  Well, the man responsible for that great t-shirt design, cartoonist and illustrator Dennis Culver has emailed to let us know that threadless.com in their endless quest for world domination have decided not to print this most excellent t-shirt.  Boo-urns to threadless.com!  Never fear though dear readers, Dennis has arranged for the shirt to be available through redbubble.com.  Be sure to go and check it out!

Hey!

We’ve just created a Flickr group for those of you artistic types who have taken photos in, of and around the Tiki Bar!

Feel free to join up and share your photos – it’s free – http://www.flickr.com/groups/tikiloungeandbar/

Also remember if you have an awesome shot of your best mates’ “Zombie Face”, or any other photo you’d like included in our Gallery, you can shoot them through to photos@tikiloungeandbar.com.

To help the creative juices start to flow, here are some awesome photos that were sent to us by a recent customer Eliza: