Tiki Culture

This basement bar dubbed Blue Demon’s Hideaway was the first room that tiki connoisseurs Dan O’Connell and Michelle Warble furnished when they moved into their home three years ago.

The definition of tiki varies depending on whom you ask. Some fans say it’s about the movement’s idiosyncratic cocktails and music, or a love of the funhouse-mirror version of Polynesian culture it portrays.

As great as The Inferno Room drinks are, it’s the decor that stuns most people like a blow dart. Here, 10 of the wildest details in Fountain Square’s new watering hole.

Tiki has landed on the shores of Indianapolis in a tropical wave of bamboo and pineapples. The following Indy tiki spots had us at aloha.

Here’s to the highbrow mixology and the sentimental kitsch.