The Lucky Tiki - Highland Park

This Highland Park speakeasy will have you feeling the heat and the beat before the night is over. Buzz in at the Salty Sailor machine by the entrance to Highland Park Bowl and prepare to be transported into a high-end tiki experience. This tropical den has a ceiling draped with rigging, and nautical lanterns illuminate bamboo and rattan as far as the eye can see. Once your eyes adjust, you’ll find some drinks from their sister location’s menu, like the mai tai, piña colada, painkiller, and old fashioned, along with new, even more theatrical offerings. Whatever Floats Your Boat (or Canoe), their hazelnut passionfruit foam-covered Saturn, arrives in a ship, triggering a lightshow complete with thunder and animatronics of tiki statues braving a stormy sea above the bar. In addition to tableside fire shows and the Siren Song’s sing-along, you can also find non-alcoholic versions of classics like a dark and stormy or a Jungle Bird. Grab some on-theme light bites from the Highland Park Bowl kitchen, like crab rangoons and Szechuan pork soup dumplings, so you’re not stumbling back out to Figueroa. Though less busy than the WeHo location, walk-in availability is still unlikely on weekends. During the week? Well, you might just get lucky.