Title: Kahiki Supper Club
Description: "Inspired by Florida's famed Mai-Kai Restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. They set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. Patrons lined up for hours to see the celebrities who dined there: everyone from Betty White to Raymond Burr. Outside, two giant Easter Island heads with flames spouting from their topknots stood guard while customers dined in a faux tribal village with thatched huts, palm trees and a towering fireplace moai. One wall featured aquariums of exotic fish and another had windows overlooking a tropical rainforest with periodic thunderstorms. For nearly forty years, the Kahiki was the undisputed center of tiki culture"--
Subjects: Social life and customs, Polynesian Cooking, Influence, Kahiki Supper Club (Columbus, Ohio), Polynesian Art, History, COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Pacific Rim, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Art, polynesian, Cooking, polynesian, Ohio, history, Ohio, social life and customs
Places: Columbus (Ohio)