Tiki Room

This place is CLOSED. Replaced by ‘La Verdad’ a Mexican taqueria.
(The one star rating is not for the restaurant — I had to click on something to post this!)

If you want to go to Landsdowne to watch a game and you want to do so fairly peacefully this is a good bet. I’m a sucker for the pupu platter as it satisfies my need to try several things from the menu. It doesn’t attract the same crowd (or volume) as the other places on the street which makes it nice and laid back for a Sox game.

I really like the Tiki Room. It is the quietest bar on Landsdowne, but always a good time. You won’t find really loud music here, so it’s a good spot to hang out with friends or a small group. The scorpion bowls are large, but not too powerful. The bowls also have small plastic monkeys, the best part. The décor is great, but I’m biased because I love anything tiki.

I had one of my many birthdays here. I made a reservation and it was fantastic. I have a lot of different types of friends who have a lot of different types of food restrictions. Rather than going for an easy out I opted for this. The menu seemed to have something for everyone.
The décor reminded me of the Brady Bunch Episode from Hawaii but that is the fun part about it. Hawaii is kitche. It’s the tropics in the northeast. If you have a fun, laid back attitude and realize you are not dining at the ritz you will have a good time. The enormous scorpian bowls help too. After a couple of those you will be feeling the island spirit.
A final word of advice. Get a table outside especially on a nice night it helps to enhance the island spirit. Yah mon!

I did not like this place. Bad food, Bad service, junky furniture, bad décor. It didn’t really look tiki at all, except that they had 1 tiki bar. Their bathrooms were gross.
Oh, and weak drinks.

I have been to Tiki Room mostly before a Sox game but one time a buddy of mine and I made a night out of it. We had an unreal time.
We got there early and sat outdoors — the tables were arranged so that you could easily talk to your neighbors. The waitress was sweet and very cute and attentive. We ate dinner there and the food was better than I had expected. A Dutch couple visiting our fair city sat next to us and we eventually pushed our tables together and were buying each other drinks and shots. More friends joined us and then the Sox game got out so more people joined us. It eventually became one big sidewalk party; my buddy and I got the whole crowd to sing along to «Sweet Child of Mine». Getting the waitress’ number certainly made the experience better.

I went on a RSVP only night so the crowd was well managed. With that said I loved the décor and the free poo-​poo platters where pretty rad. The chicken was a little dry but the egg rolls where outstanding. They have a Cuban sandwhich that I am waiting to sink my teeth into. Great tropical drink list but they still serve the classics.

Very small but casual and fun atmosphere. Had it not been freezing cold and rainy the patio outside would have been a great place to chill. The drinks were strong and decently priced, the bartenders were nice and the music was hoppin… not bad for a Monday night.

3.5 stars really.
It’s all about the fun atmosphere and getting lei-​d. Make sure you do get lei-​d, sometimes it seems they withold them for no apparent reason. Everyone deserves a good lei. Come on now. The food is decent but not fantastic. You could get better Chinese down the street at Beijing Café or Chef Changs, but really, it’s not about the food. It’s about the TIKI. Sit back, enjoy the cocktails and bask in Tiki goodness. Sure, order a pu-​pu platter or two but don’t set your expectations too high. Keeping focusing on the leis and the Tiki gods. Let yourself get a little drunk and you might think you’re in an island paradise.

Food– eh.
Beverages– quite tasty.
Service– BOOOOOOOOO!!! Take small sips, because it will be a long time in between visits from your server.

‘Fun’ is the perfect word to describe this place. It may as well have been designed specifically for bachelor/​bachelorette and birthday parties — or maybe anyone who wants to feel like they’re at a bar in Cancun. I guess the whole we’re-not-in-Boston-anymore beach theme is part of what makes you let loose here (maybe a bit too much). The weak drinks were definitely not to blame.

Chips and salsa for $ 7?! I opted for the plaintain chips ($ 3 – 4) and steamed broccoli ($ 4) to satisfy my odd food cravings. The plaintain chips were so bland but the quantity was huge and I figure by the time you’re smashed, you won’t care what you’re chewing on so long as you’re satisfying that oral fixation (or you could just make out with some lovely Boston white trash). The broccoli was mushy and in some sort of a garlic sauce. It came in a little silver serving dome which I half-​expected Sebastian to crawl out of when I opened it.
The service was painfully slow and on a Tuesday night, it was mostly an afterwork crowd… middle-​aged and balding. The doormen were super friendly and the interior is like some horrible tacky neon den.

The Tiki room is lots of fun. On a saturday night the place is packed and the barstaff is slow. The atmopshere is crazy with loud music, flashing lights, and dancing drunk people. They do offer an awesome drink (not sure whats in it) but it comes in a huge scorpion bowl type glass and has 3 straws. It is absolutely huge and is under 20 bucks. A good drink to choose if you’re with at least 3 or four people. This is a place to come and dance and party, definitely not a place to talk. It’s too loud!

The scorpion bowls here are really fun. The PuPu platters of appetizers are a fun concept, but the snacks aren’t very tasty. The scorpion bowls are tasty and fierce and worth the price. We went here with a big group to start out a night on Lansdowne. Though they messed up the reservation and gave our spot to someone else, they squeezed us in to a smaller area, and it wasn’t too bad. The service was great, as well. Another fun aspect is when you eat there, you can get into Jake Ivory’s for free. We then discovered that from Jake Ivory’s you can get into Bill’s Bar for free. It makes for a fun night and is well worth a quick bite with your bowl at the Tiki Room!

A little on the small side, the Tiki can easily get overcrowded. Neverthless, the staff and atmosphere inside make it a fun time. We once held a greek event there and the food was great! The tvs located all around make for great game watching and the clientel is on the classier side, so it is a good place to meet someone fo future dates.

Fun place to go sit outside on their patio and chill out with friends. Great atmosphere, feel like you are almost on vacation somewhere tropical… well except for the view of Fenway right across the street. Like all the places on Landsdowne, its better to go there when the sox are out of town. More room to breath!