Earlier this month, friends and I went to the Tonga Room, located in the famous Fairmont Hotel. It is the ultimate tiki lounge that transports you back to the 1940s. It was designed by Mel Melvin who ...

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Like smoking at work, camel hair coats and a budget surplus, tiki bars are relics of a bygone era, of when Cesar Chavez Street was called Army, when nobody in San Francisco knew what a bike lane was, ...

Owner of The Republic, Bin 38 Looking to Relocate The Tonga RoomThe new developers plans for demolishing the Tonga Room include the preservation and sale of its assets. Tonga Room’s Final Fate to Be ...

The kitschy contents of the Tonga Room are steeped in so much history that state law requires them to be salvaged and reused or stored after the 1960s-era Tiki bar closes, officials ruled. The Tonga ...

The Tonga room at the Fairmont Hotel is an over the top Polynesian-style Tiki bar featuring indoor rain storms, but the hotel owners say it has no place in their renovations plan. That $130 million ...