The Chart Room · Year by Year

2018

8 opened · 7 closed · 3 milestones

The Revival. The craft-cocktail generation rediscovers the canon. New temples rise; the tide comes back in.

On This Year’s Chart

Dated milestones

April 6The Hu Ke Lau closes in Chicopee — the end of a half-century of Memorial Drive luaus

September 1The Tacoma Cabana pours its last round on Pacific Avenue

October 12The Omni Hut serves its last luau in Smyrna — the Major’s daughter closes the family’s Polynesian room

Opened

New soundings

Still pouringDevil's Reef

Still pouringShore Leave

Still pouringThe Inferno Room

Still pouringThe Limbo

Still pouringTiki Rock

Still pouringTiki TNT

OpenedLost River

OpenedThe Polynesian

Closed

Lights out

ClosedHo Toy Luau Restaurant

ClosedHu Ke Lau

ClosedJade Isle

ClosedPorts O' Call

ClosedTacoma Cabana

Trade Routes

The empires move

Don the BeachcomberDon the Beachcomber Huntington Beach — Huntington Beach, CA closes

Trader Vic'sTrader Vic's Palm Jumeirah — Dubai, UAE opens

Tallichet's Tropical PortsPorts O' Call — San Pedro, CA closes