SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Season Of The Kitsch: Tacky And Tiki Are Back, Again In 2009, San Francisco's foremost Tiki bar looked about ready for a condo conversion. That was then, and this is now: Currently, the Tonga Room & Hurricane bar at the Fairmont Hotel expects
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I Drank Every Drink On The Tonga Room's Cocktail Menu (For Journalism) A couple months back, San Francisco's legendary Tiki bar the Tonga Room announced it would be ditching their syrupy mixers that made Anthony Bourdain so sticky in favor of fresher goods and a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Tonga Room's Cocktail Menu Gets A Fresh New Squeeze The delightfully kitschy date spot that Anthony Bourdain once said left him "drunk and sticky," just got a fresh new makeover in the food and drinks department. While the forecast by the pool
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Mitt Romney Gets Tacky At Tonga Room For McCain Wedding Republican politicians generally avoid San Francisco like the den of liberal iniquity it is, but the city played host to an unusual collection of Republican luminaries this weekend. The occasion? The nuptials of
Arts & Entertainment Bemused: Willie Brown Column On M.C. Hammer's Birthday Bash Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, it seems, was one of the lucky attendees at MC Hammer's 50th birthday party at the Tonga Room. He wrote about the festivities in his Sunday column
SF News Tonga Room Gets Another Reprieve as Fairmont Condo Project Falls Apart For Real Matier & Ross reported this morning on the demise of the planned condo tower on the Fairmont Hotel property -- essentially because they wanted to raze the existing hotel tower, built in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Discovers the Tonga Room In his side-item column on Inside Scoop this week, the Chronicle's princely food critic made a trip to everyone's favorite place to take their grandmother: the Fairmont Hotel's historic Tonga Room. It's worth
misc SFist Drinks: The Caribeño at Smuggler's Cove In light of the Chron piece this week in which several preservationists and a Fairmont Hotel neighbor dissed the Tonga Room as both unprofitable and out of date, we turned to our friend
SF News Tonga Room's Fate to Be (Possibly) Decided Today The fate of the Tonga Room, that beloved but not often crowded Tiki bar in the bowels of the Fairmont Hotel, is on the docket at the Historic Preservation Commission's meeting today. Though
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preservationists Still Trying to Save Tonga Room Writing in the Chron, John King examines the current state of the Tonga Room preservation debate, in which preservation architect Chris VerPlanck is preparing a nomination package for saving the Fairmont hotel's pseudo-Polynesian
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Comic Book Tiki Bar Crawl with Darick Robertson Since you've heard that the irreplaceable Tonga Room is in danger of being made into condos(!!!), and the WonderCon convention is in town, what happens when the two are combined? Tiki bar crawl.
SF News Tonga Room No More? While the news is a few weeks old, it stings fresh as this morning's rain. See, word has it that the new plan to turn part of Nob Hill's Fairmont Hotel (which, oh
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy Hour Pain-Killing In SF Unthirsty breaks down the top-ten San Francisco happy hours for stopping the shakes. Although we have to disagree with the number-one spot going to the thematic, fun, yet sometimes overpriced Tonga Room --
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Islands On Islands Go to the Forbidden Island in Alameda. Billing itself as Alameda’s “first and only tiki lounge,” it’s a first-class joint for picking up drinks with props. More importantly, however, these drinks
misc SFist Answers: New Year's Special A reader of SFist Answers writes in anonymously: This year, I'm celebrating my last under-21 New Years Eve. What fun things can the local twenty year old chick do to bring in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Untacky Tiki Technology Ah, if only. Trader Vic's - now a global chain, but in the 1930s the world's first Tiki restaurant - doesn't skimp on the atmosphere. You feel it in the wallet, of course,
SF News Hope Is On The Way -- to the Fairmont So what are you doing for lunch today? SFist is going out to lunch with The Legal Reader. But if you have $5000 to blow, John Kerry is having a fundraising lunch in
