The Shameful Tiki Room in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Shameful Tiki Room opened in Vancouver's Riley Park neighborhood in March 2013. Owner Rod Moore has dedicated himself to creating a classic Polynesian Pop escape, with a dimly-lit, windowless environment decked with bamboo and float lamps. The space is small, but there is a kitchen, and theme-appropriate live music acts are sometimes showcased.

In November 2015, a sister location was opened: The Shameful Tiki Room in Toronto, Ontario

The Shameful Tiki Room

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bar & Restaurant

8.1

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AtomicTikiSpy

AtomicTikiSpy is a semi-regular at The Shameful Tiki Room.

November 22, 2018, 12:34 AM

Highly recommend this place to friends and have been visiting fairly often since it opened. I tried most of the tiki cocktails as well as sampling their broad selections of rum. It is obvious great care was taken to create this genuine tiki experience. It tends to get busy and a bit noisy, so if you really want to experience a more mellow ambiance before the crowd, get there early. Collectors and those who want a nice souvenir, be sure to buy a tiki mug as they are high quality, attractive, unique, and well branded. Also, maybe take home some matches and a swizzle stick while you are at it...

Tikichef

Tikichef has visited The Shameful Tiki Room.

October 1, 2018, 6:22 PM

Great bar, had a nice time and a cocktail and snacks before our dinner reservation. Our hotel gave us the tip that we also needed a reservation at the Shameful Tiki.

CWGross

CWGross has visited The Shameful Tiki Room.

July 6, 2018, 8:43 PM

On a recent trip to Vancouver, my wife and I made reservations for two evenings: a "Mai-Tai Mondays" and a "Waikiki Wednesdays" featuring hula dancers. Monday provided a great experience of just getting to meet the bar, try the drinks, and soak in the attentively, lovingly created ambiance. Wednesday provided a nice little "hook" with its half-hour long modern hula show. I'm glad that, in our three short days in the city, we spent two of our evenings at the Shameful Tiki Room. It was well worth it and perhaps THE highlight of our visit.

For food we had the Captain's Mix pupu platter both times, which was a fantastic sampling of very good finger foods. The coconut mango rice especially was to die for. Drinkwise, we tried the mai-tai which is always a little too tart for us no matter where we drink it, the excellent painkiller, and the mystery bowl. The latter came with much fanfare as well. Taking a cue from other establishments, different drinks come with their own unique fanfare. Luckily, with their extensive drink menu, nobody is ordering enough of the same drinks to make the fanfare a repetitive problem like in other places.

A reservation is the way to go, as the place was packed on both nights we went. Reservation seatings last two hours, after which they may reseat you at the bar if it is available. However, being merely visitors to the city, that two hour time frame was generally okay for getting us back out the door and on our way to see more of the city or turn in for an early rise the next day. I might have preferred an extra hour or half-hour to just enjoy it, but it also makes you leave wanting more, which is good marketing if nothing else. They could easily expend into the adjacent store space and fill that up too.

While I might agree that the Shameful Tiki Room isn't worth a special trip to Vancouver for its own sake, I did give it extra "tilt" for being Canada's own Tiki bar chain of the 21st century. It is definitely worth visiting if you are in the Pacific Northwest and, for me, it lived up to the hype. If they could be induced to opening more locations across Canada, that wouldn't hurt my feelings at all, even as it might hurt my pocketbook!

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