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Aunt Tiki's
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Mon, Wed, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Yes
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Very Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- Yes
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
24 reviews for Aunt Tiki's
Review Highlights
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"...a fun Dive, I like when Wendy works usually morning mid..." In 4 reviews -
"The drinks are cheap and stiff and the bartenders are a..." In 3 reviews -
"They had the best Halloween decor, including the creepiest..." In 3 reviews
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24 reviews in English
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Review from Steve A.
3/21/2012
I had a brief stop in New Orleans to and from my niece's wedding. I played the part of tour guide-something I often do in this city I've never lived in.
Not having much time during either trip, I told my friends "we can go look around at all the other places, or we can go to the best damn bar in quarter". (It wasn't exactly a choice I was presenting-more of a statement.)
Needless to say, it is always my home in this city. Literally-I spend more time here than I do any other place-including wherever my bed is in the city on those visits. The bartenders have the attitude I come to expect, the drinks are reasonably priced and it's inhabited by the misfits that patrol the lower decatur at any hour. I've been going here irregularly since it was The Hideout and will probably visit for as long as the building stands here.
My friend left her phone here the other night-and knowing that we were only in town for a couple more hours, started calling the most recent contacts in the phone to make sure she was aware(including her grandmother-oops!). Either way, that's a certain respect you don't see at many bars for their patrons-even the first time ones. -
Review from John L. H.
New Orleans, LA
2/14/2012 1 Check-in Here
Another Bar with a couch review.
After the KDV parade, I went on a lengthy bar tour. Aunt Tiki's was one of the spots I tried earlier in the night. I had never been, but I liked it.
There is a long bar with stools as you walk in. There is also an area with at least one couch against the wall. I love bars with couches. I can't explain it, I just do. This couch was small and possibly more of a love seat, but two people could comfortably sit.
Bartenders were friendly, and service was prompt. Since I have a rule about drinking expensive beer in a dive bar, we stuck with PBR. It was cheap, cold and plentiful.
This isn't the area of town I normally frequent, but next time I do, I will keep this place on my list.Listed in: NOLA Dive Bars, Bars With Couches
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Review from Jane S.
11/16/2011
Yeah, Tiki's!!!!
Diviest Dive in the Quarter, I think. Cheap and dark and dank and gross, but there's always somewhere to sit. The bathrooms are freaking DISGUSTING and people are always barging in on you while you're trying to pee. Cuff your pants up to your knees if you must go in there.
If you're the type of person who likes to stay up for days at a time, someone in this place will gladly help you.Listed in: Bars
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Review from Billy Lee H.
New Orleans, LA
3/15/2012 2 photos
Gracie, the daytime Friday barmaid, was a manager at the Abbey up the street for nearly twenty years. She moved here after she and the Abbey's owner got into a row, and since then this bar's tone has climbed uphill, while the Abbey's has slid into a sludge pit. I enjoy talking with Gracie and with Stacey, who works at Molly's at the Market some mornings, and so comes here after work some afternoons. And Dave, who's recently graduated at Tiki's from what Stacey does for Molly's, always has something to contribute to a conversation. The only reason I don't call this place A-OK is the skulls on the walls and other aspects of the décor.
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Review from Nicole H.
Long Beach, CA
9/27/2011
A bar I have to visit every time I visit my favorite city in the whole world.
i heart Wendy!
Made us feel at home...(Fern's)
The bartenders set us up in a better hotel in town (we had been kicked out of our first hotel for being drunk) (lame)
Loved Jagger back then..its been 3 yrs I need to go back soon.
Also I was there soon after Katrina and the doors of Aunt Tiki's had be blown off, so they never closed. Too great!
The second time I arrived in New Orleans with my friend Ryan I had to take her to Aunt Tiki's ...It was ON! -
Review from Tracy D.
Lake Worth, FL
1/18/2012
AUNT TIKIIIIIIIII'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been going to this bar every time I go to New Orleans. I have been going to this bar since BEFORE it was Aunt Tikis!!!
I love it. Total dive.
The people who frequent this bar are real and easy to talk to . The Juke Box is TEE SHIT!!!!! they have Venom, Demented Are Go and other great underground music!
If you go to NOLA, GO TO THIS BAR!
You will have a blast in the middle of a blast!!! -
Review from Tim B.
Evanston, IL
3/14/2011
2009 we stumble in here to take a rest and have a drink. I ask about bourbons and am not told anything about Jack Daniels (all bourbons are whiskeys, but not all whiskeys are bourbon). I like it already.
It's not too crowded, the phone rings, it's "dial a shot". I am told about this. I have called in a dial-a-shot or to from Chicago to see if I could.
It's cheap, the music's good, I feel welcome.
2010 same deal, same bartender, different day. Stop in for a daytime beer. Watch as people get yelled at for stopping in for the potty but not having a drink (an agreeable rudeness).
Come back at night, feel comfy, get wasted, watch people. Watch a guy get ejected for too loudly drumming along with the music on the bar.
Interesting day. -
Review from Thomas S.
San Diego, CA
8/18/2010
Best...bar...ever.
I have slept in this bar.
I have drank in this bar.
I have been carnal in this bar.
I have cried in this bar.
I have laughed in this bar.
And that is just in one visit - which lasted three days.
Tiki's never closes and is crazy at random intervals all day and night. My highest recommendation. -
Review from Chris L.
7/15/2011
...Because I can't give it 3.5 stars. I decided to err on the positive side given
1. My long history with this bar
2. They never close
3. $1.75 PBR! Yeah, in the Quarter!
Like it's neighbor, The Abbey, this started for me as something of an after hours haunt after a night at Crowbar/Blue Crystal/Whirling Dervish and was frequented primarily by punks and goths. The jukebox was killer, and I always had a great time.
Fast forward a few years. I married my gf in this bar. Well, sort of. She decided she preferred my last name to hers, so the late, great, amazingly awesome bartender, Wendy (RIP) served us drinks and pronounced us hitched. I highly recommend having your wedding performed by a bartender. It's quick, easy, and with no legality to it, divorce is a snap. If only I had known about that trick the first time I got married. Later that night, we were quite inebriated when I decided to leave the Ursulines St. hotel we happened to be in that night (Villa Convento, also highly recommended) and go grab a couple more drinks for the room. After stumbling back to the hotel, I realized I had left my key at the bar. So, I returned yet again and saw my key in front of some patrons. I didn't want to be rude and reach, so I asked if the key was their's. One of the guys said "No, it's theirs," and threw the key behind him onto an occupied couch. I took the key, went back to the room, dropped the beers off, and returned yet again to kick the dogshit out that asshole. Luckily for me, he was gone, as I'm not built for fighting when I'm sober, much less fighting two guys when I'm so wasted, I'm actually planning to get in a fight with two belligerant pricks. It's not often I can hit two emotional extremes in one bar in the same day.
Moving on to the present time. The goths are gone, but some of the punks are still there, unwashed since I first saw them there. Overall, there's quite an eclectic mix of good and shady people in here at any time of day or night. Chances are, if you're in here, you will get Charles Bukowski drunk, so leave your reputation at the door. You don't need it here. The jukebox still has some good tunes, but usually, it seems the other half of the jukebox is playing, i.e., a slew of terrible songs designed to be played ironically, I suppose. Also, Cara and Trace are great bartenders. I can't say I always have a good time there now, but enough to keep me going back. BTW, this bar is cash only, but they have an ATM ($4 charge).Listed in: Dive In and Swim Drunk
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Review from Paul B.
San Francisco, CA
2/6/2008
"Friends don't let friends lick skanks."
That's one of the myriad signs adorning the wall of this beautiful dive bar, and it's a good measure of a friend. I'm not certain whether Tiki's is the friend or the skank.
Tiki's is a dirty little bar, more than capable of getting you thoroughly plowed and then throwing you out on the street. The barstools are alternately padded and ripped. The bathrooms have no lock, are graffitied, and clog easily. Several walls are adorned with unseasonable Christmas decorations, such as fucking reindeer, among other random things.
But the jukebox makes the joint. I don't know of anyplace else where I've found mc chris, Front 242, and Motley Crue all in one place.
Decatur Street is dirty, and this place is a dirty spot on a dirty street. I'm happy to have found it. By no means at all is it the right spot for everyone, and it doesn't want to be, and it shouldn't be.Listed in: Things To Do In New Orleans…
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Review from nicole h.
Long Beach, CA
2/4/2009
It's a fun Dive, I like when Wendy works usually morning mid afternoons.
She didn't remember me this time around but oh well still had a fun time, will always go back when I'm in NOLA.
For all the LB ers that might want a comparison it's like Ferns..Listed in: Dives World Wide, New Orleans
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Review from Schuyler W.
Oakland, CA
6/7/2009
This bar has the most dubious distinction of being the only establishment ever to eject me. The story is worth it, but it'll cost ya.
I have friends that would pay good money to see me get thrown out of a dive like this one...
Despite the fact that it was a misunderstanding, I still cannot erase the memory of being asked to leave a place like this.
There are really no words to describe it, but I will say that there was a strand of decorated swine flu masks, some choice words of graffiti on every inch of the bathroom walls, and bacon martinis.
I have to give this bar one more star for the people I met there, who were the redeeming quality. The jukebox is OK, the drinks are nothing special, and the atmosphere was tense at best, but I met some good folks there.
All in all, I ended up going back to the Tiki Bar even after getting accidentally booted. The people were cool and the place is open 24 hours. Cheers to the native New Orleans folks there who made my visit much more fun. -
Review from Matty O.
Chicago, IL
4/29/2009
After Frenchman Street, we stumbled into this bar. At least I know I did. In quasi tiki decor, this place was great for a night cap. Not full, but not empty at 3am. Some more friends met us here and the drinking resumed. I remember the juke being solid, because I pumped it w/ some cash for some good tunes. I believe I threw on Ween. I can't remember what else made the playlist.
We left after a couple of rounds as we had become hot messes. I myself was going on being awake for 24 hours. I heard that our friend and her crew that had met us there around 3am, left, and somehow were back drinking at Aunt Tiki's around 8am. Crazy I tell ya.
Good place for a big crew late at night if you're in the quarter is all I'm saying!Listed in: A road trip to NOLA to…
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Review from Jim B.
7/17/2010
I recently spent 5 days in New Orleans for a conference... and we went to a lot of bars and wandered through a lot of BS in the Quarter. Glad to see a place like this exists... yeah, there were a few tourists like our trio, but the place feels local, the decor can only be described as 'left over Target halloween decorations" and the jukebox as 'eclectic'.
This, my friends adds up to genius. From the well worn bar to the church pew on the right wall - nothing really matches... but thats the beauty of it. The bartender zapped "Imagine" while we sat there and yelled "NO IMAGINE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT" I tipped him an extra dollar with my next drink for that. I heard futurepop, rock and Johnny Cash in quick succession. Great jukebox.
Is this a place for everyone? Most assuredly not. If you wander in looking for anything with more than three ingredients in it - you are in the wrong joint. if you want to pretend you are a local and chill with what looks like a very fun crowd, leave all pretension out on Decatur St and belly up to the bar. If I was a local, this is the place I'd be more often than not. My companions were less enthusiastic and we wandered off to Frenchman St, which was more their speed... Wish I had had more time there. -
Review from Dianalily L.
East Watertown, MA
2/13/2008
Can you sing along to Journey, Elvis and Linda Ronstadt - loud but not necessarily well? Do you like you drinks cheap, your bartenders cheeky and your restrooms sketchy?
If yes to all of the above, Tiki's is the dive for you.
If you are at all pretentious, mysophobic, or like fresh-crushed strawberry daiquiris, then don't bother. -
Review from mark m.
New Orleans, LA
2/17/2010
I am friends with Ferman, the owner of Aunt Tiki's, and I like it, I watched the New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl there ;)
Listed in: Cool places in New Orleans
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Review from Christa C.
San Francisco, CA
12/29/2008
The best jukebox I've ever seen. A great place to drink even when there are only 5 people in the bar.
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Review from Ann G.
Chicago, IL
3/7/2009
RIP Wendy
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Review from L L.
Hamden, CT
7/19/2011
Stumbled in here while strolling down Decatur one night on vacation. I liked it immediately because it is dark, random and has left over Halloween decorations on the walls, along with a church pew...Although we were clearly tourists, no one judged us or made us feel out of place. Bartender was really nice and super hot in that Goth Twilight sorta way. Good selection of bottled beer and vodka for a small place. Bathroom situation is weird - doors don't lock and they aren't labeled - women, men, nothing. Just doors with no signs. So, you kinda gotta just take a chance and hope for the best. ;)
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Review from Colleen B.
San Francisco, CA
11/6/2009
Hard to choose a 'favorite' bar in NOLA, but Aunt Tikis is up there! They had the best Halloween decor, including the creepiest holographic photos I've ever seen. I think they have local artists stuff here mostly. The drinks are cheap and stiff and the bartenders are a feast for the eyes. A perfect 'dive bar'.
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Review from Albertro F.
Chinatown, NY
4/14/2010
Punk rock dive bar without the punk rock. Cheap beer and a nice, cool, dark respite from steamy sweaty Decatur Street. Cool place but needs better music.
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Review from JD G.
Jefferson, KY
9/5/2010
I was lost for 48 hours in New Orleans. Couldn't find my bed n breakfast, the original group of people I showed up with, or my dignity. I even managed to stumble onto a boat and onto the river. This place started it. Fraggle Rock theme blaring from the jukebox, bartender making a drink I like to call my own sweet tea, and the demise of my own humanity devoured by the beast within. 48 hours later, vacation half over, friends finally find my remains. The bartender chases em down the street and says get your friend he is scaring the locals. At this point I was the Great Cornholio munching on vitamin packs from the vending machine for the past 2 days and swilling Jim Beam on the rocks with a little sweetener. I had encountered interesting commentary from a guy wearing an over sized purple sombrero asking me what my problem was. I no longer was looking through my own eyes, but watching from the cheapseats as this out of body experience took hold. I don't know what happened, I do have a camera full of pictures and my tab went into the several hundreds. There are still people I run into, when back in New Orleans that yell, "hey, Kentucky". I have no f in clue how I could be remembered as such. This place is full of the dark spirit. Go drink it, drink bourbon. Do it now, or your liver will attack your kidneys and lose.
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Review from Katie C.
Astoria, NY
8/19/2009
I love this bar. The drinks are cheap. The atmosphere is adorable. It has an amazing jukebox selection and the bartender is always watching food network.
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Review from Robin C.
San Diego, CA
Updated - 2/7/2011 6 Check-ins Here
also, i have a giant erection for the bartender. i have lovingly named him "the ska pirate" ENJOY.
Listed in: The Places I Go Out
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9/2/2010
Dear Jesus, please stop letting my auto-pilot take me to Tiki's at 6am. There are a plethora of… Read more »
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