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Mahiki - New London TIki Bar - secret photos |
tikiracer
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 09, 2005
Posts: 459
From: UK
|  Posted: 2006-10-17 10:24 am
Secret spy pics of the NEW tiki bar in London, called the Mahiki. You
didn't see these, I was never there...
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TikiDiego
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Jul 16, 2006
Posts: 96
From: San Diego, CA
| Posted: 2006-10-21 09:39 am
Anyone have any info on the opening date for the Mahiki? I'll be in London in late December and would love to check it out!
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virani
Grand Member (6 years) 
Joined: Sep 17, 2003
Posts: 1274
From: Paris, France
| Posted: 2006-10-21 10:07 am
Yes, it should be open very very soon (like next week ?)
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TikiSpecs
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Nov 03, 2004
Posts: 53
From: Soton, Hampshire, UK
| Posted: 2006-10-24 04:59 am
WOW!!!!
Can't wait to visit (and stagger out) looks really good, top job all round!!
its great to have another oasis in this country (and I don't mean the "our kid" Beatle lite, one eyebrow kind.)
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Kon-Hemsby
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Sep 17, 2003
Posts: 1018
From: Andover, England
| Posted: 2006-10-24 05:24 am
So are we gonna have a pre Christmas UK tikiphile get together?
Myself and my wahine will be up for it.
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MrBaliHai
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2002
Posts: 689 | Posted: 2006-10-24 06:04 am
Good to see so much progress. I'm really looking forward to visiting at the end of the month. Save a Mai Tai (or 3) for me!
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Weblog: Eye of the Goof
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TikiLaLe
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 09, 2006
Posts: 891
From: Largo, Floriduh
| Posted: 2006-10-24 08:02 am
Is it true that Madonna is hosting a party for her new snatch & fly child.
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RevBambooBen
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 12, 2002
Posts: 6085
From: Huntington Beach
| Posted: 2006-10-24 8:47 pm
Lookin Good!
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Kawentzmann
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 28, 2002
Posts: 247
From: Berlin, Germany
| Posted: 2006-10-25 02:07 am
I like the lighting a lot. Sort of modernized, isn’t it? Great!
KK
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cheekytiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 09, 2004
Posts: 1034
From: The Haole Hut, London, UK
| Posted: 2006-10-25 03:20 am
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On 2006-10-24 08:02, TikiLaLe wrote:
Is it true that Madonna is hosting a party for her new snatch & fly child.
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You don't know how close this could be to the truth!
I will let on more once we are open properly next week
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tikiracer
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 09, 2005
Posts: 459
From: UK
| Posted: 2006-10-25 05:07 am
Here's some more spy pics to keep you going...
I got to design all the branding for this project and once the Mahiki is open I'll share the work I did.
Thanks to Cheekytiki for getting me aboard.
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hewey
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 14, 2004
Posts: 4191
From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2006-10-25 05:07 am
Nice mix of modern and traditional tiki bars - very nice.
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donhonyc
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 13, 2003
Posts: 1157
From: The Quiet EAST Village
| Posted: 2006-10-25 12:09 pm
Wish somebody in New York would get their act together and do up a place like that.
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Tiki Chris
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 1542
From: London
| Posted: 2006-10-26 05:04 am
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On 2006-10-25 05:07, tikiracer wrote:
I got to design all the branding for this project and once the Mahiki is open I'll share the work I did.
Thanks to Cheekytiki for getting me aboard.
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tikiracer's work for Mahiki is gorgeous! Wait until y'all see the menu he designed.
For more "secret" Mahiki photos, visit CheekyTiki's blog:
http://cheekytikiuk.blogspot.com/index.html
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cheekytiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 09, 2004
Posts: 1034
From: The Haole Hut, London, UK
| Posted: 2006-10-28 1:34 pm
Before it opens properly,I would just like to add a bit of history on the Mahiki and its well known Adress at No.1 Dover Street, in Mayfair, in London.
It's working name whilst in it's first stages of evolution was "Tahiti Joes" which has a very interesting story to it, and is still very much part of "Mahiki" as it stands with its new name.
Sir Joseph Banks, Bt, KCB, FRS
(1743-1820)
Naturalist and patron of science
Joseph Banks was the only son of a wealthy land-owning family and shortly after inheriting his family's fortune in the early 1760's he chose to pursue this passion in Botany and Natural History to the full.
When the Royal Society was successful in initiating Captain Cook's 1768 expedition to Tahiti, Banks obtained permission from the Admiralty to join the venture. .
On the 13th April 1769 ‘The Endeavour’ landed in Tahiti, where Banks collected specimens over the next 3 months that he spent with the Islands Natives.
Banks, Cook and the Endeavour crew returned to England slowly and landed on July 13, 1771.
On arrival he returned to London to report his findings to the Royal Society, and story has it ,he stayed at No1 Dover St , where he entertained the wealthy with stories of his travels and plied them with the wonderful libations he concocted from Naval Rum and the Botanical Specimens he brought back.
Through these stories he earned the nickname “Tahiti Joe”and just maybe he was the unwitting inventor of the first Tiki drinks….
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