Best Tiki Bars in the United States

Tiki started in Hollywood in 1934 and spread along the California coast before it went national. The best tiki bars in the United States now reach far past the West Coast. Hale Pele in Portland pours from 300 to 400 rums; Hidden Harbor in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill lists 715 rum bottlings; and Lei Low in Houston takes no reservations and gives happy-hour prices all night to anyone in an aloha shirt. Sunken Harbor Club, upstairs from Gage & Tollner in Brooklyn, is walk-in only, The Bamboo Room inside Three Dots and a Dash in Chicago is an ode to rum and rhum agricole, and Frankie's Tiki Room in Las Vegas never closes. These are the bars we would start with.