The Banana Hut Hawaiian BBQ

This is a great little place I was happy to find in downtown Eureka. It has a great range of appropriate cocktails which are made exceptionally well with proper ingredients, great balance and care. That point is a real standout given that so many places today have far less well-made tiki drinks. The Singapore Sling, for example, was the real thing - it looked beautiful with a nice pale pink glow, pineapply foam at the top, and nice boozy gin character with noticeable Benedictine, a key ingredient in a true Singapore Sling. It was not some generic rum-and-juice thing thrown together with a famous name. The food we had - korean chicken, kimchee, musubi, and saimin were all excellent. They took a lot of effort to decorate the place, although it is still basically a small, standard diner that has been tikified. I score decor efforts pretty highly but still the overall mood and tikiness are limited at this point due mostly to the nature of the location I think.

A great place for some Hawaiian food with a tiki vibe. It's more of a restaurant than a tiki bar, but it's got a very respectable selection of tiki drinks to pair with the food. The decor has a lot of tikis with both free standing and wall mounted ones. It even has some (generic) tiki mugs. The musubi and deep fried musubi really hit the spot. The only caveat I'd have for the tikiphile about the place was the "mood." It felt like a restaurant rather than an exotic escape where you left the daily grind of the real world behind.

Overall, a great place to drop by, have some tasty food, and grab a nice rum drink. I'd definitely go there again when I visit Eureka.