The Grass Skirt

The Grass Skirt opened in November 2016, in San Diego's Pacific Beach neighborhood. It is owned by the SDCM restaurant group. This speakeasy-style tiki bar is hidden behind a poke restaurant, Good Time Poke. There is a full menu of tropical cocktails, mostly their own creations, and a menu of seafood-centered dishes. Carved posts by local tiki legend Tiki Bosko support thatch over booths wrapping around a central fire pit, and backed by a grand mural of Diamond Head with a hula dancer. The bar is backed with orange tile and lava rock, and fronted by bamboo, lauhala and tapa cloth. One booth sits inside the mouth of a huge tiki head.

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Lady Kai

Lady Kai has visited The Grass Skirt.

November 2, 2018, 8:14 PM

Seriously, the bartenders here are not too nice. Sitting at the bar is usually a nice experience, but here, plain crummy. The drinks are like sugar and the decor is ok.
Perhaps I�ve been spoiled by the genuineness of the people at the other bars I�ve visited around here. False Idol, and also tonga hut and bootleggers tiki in Palm Springs. The saving grace were the other customers in the place.
Sorry it was blech - maybe an off night?

TikiOfTheWiki

TikiOfTheWiki has visited The Grass Skirt.

June 17, 2018, 5:09 PM

I must preface that my only time visiting was during their Tiki Brunch. I love their decor - floats, pufferfish, rigging and ropes, neon, and tiki head fireplace! The food was very good (I had the Poke Bowl) and I liked the mai tai. However, the music was provided by a DJ and it was blaring. Hard to talk over it. Also not sure Eagles, Marvin Gaye, Sade (while good artists) help with the tiki vibe. I�d like to go back during the week at night to see if it�s different.

Tiki Kiki

Tiki Kiki has visited The Grass Skirt.

December 30, 2017, 9:35 PM

I almost didn�t go to this tiki bar because of some of the comments on Critiki, but I am glad I went to see for myself. I thought this was a pretty decent tiki bar. The owner/operaters seemed to have put in effort to make this a nice tikicentric place. It was bigger than most tiki bars, but was completely full of people early on a Saturday night. There were lots of fun tiki things to look at and the drinks were pretty good and well balanced. Not sickening sweet There were fun theatrics when certain drinks were ordered like at Trader Sam�s. Prices about the same as every other tik bar. It was easy to get a reservation, granted it was for 5:00 when they opened on a Saturday night though. My only criticism is that the music was too loud. They played surfer beach music which was fine, but wished it wasn�t quite so loud. Hard to have a conversation, but really enjoyed my time there. There were lots of mugs to buy. I would love to visit again next time I am in the area. Important note, there is plenty of parking right out front of this place. No need to find parking on any side streets like a lot of other places in Pacific Beach.

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