Frankie's Tiki Room

"The premier Las Vegas Tiki lounge is home to deadly potent drinks, authentic, and plentiful Tiki props, and a peerless surf music selection on the jukebox. Find an expansive selection of rums, bartop gaming, and a ceiling swirling with glowing puffer fish and cigarette smoke. Take note of the skull icons beneath each menu item — they denote exactly how boozy each cocktail is." - Janna Karel

"Rum is the name of the game at Frankie’s Tiki Room, a kitschy bar decked out in Tiki galore. The Lava Letch combines demon rum, brandy, raspberry liqueur and ginger beer with a warning to lock up your daughters, while the Bearded Clam is a Tiki twist on the classic mojito, made with passion fruit. The dive bar has bartop gaming and an impressive rum selection behind the bar. Do take notice of the skulls on the cocktail menu — which indicate exactly boozy each cocktail is." - Janna Karel

"Yes, Frankie’s Tiki Room is another tiki bar and yes, it’s exactly what you picture when you close your eyes and imagine one. It’s small and smokey with tiki totems, pufferfish light fixtures, and palm fronds hanging from all surfaces. But we love the nostalgia and the fact that they go hard on the theme doesn’t mean it isn’t a fun place. It’s also open 24 hours a day, so it’s a spot you might head to while it’s still light outside and leave wondering what day it is and if you missed your flight. If you get hungry, head across the street to Del Taco and avoid the urge to try walking up to the drive-in window. Just go inside - they’re open 24 hours and sincerely frown on jokes about invisible cars, trust us." - milena difiore

"The local legend behind the preeminent Las Vegas dive bar the Double Down Saloon and the tiki bar Frankie’s Tiki Room." - Janna Karel

"No trip would be complete without a drink at a local watering hole, and the curious traveler seeks out a spot with personality. Enter Frankie’s Tiki Room. A kitschy tiki aesthetic has a long history on the Las Vegas scene but with the closing of Tiki classics like Don the Beachcomber and Aku Aku at the Stardust in the 1980’s, Tiki establishments were becoming an endangered species. A short-lived bar called Taboo Cove opened in The Venetian in 2001 but closed in 2005. Las Vegas was temporarily Tiki-less. That changed when in 2008 owner P. Moss bought the 50s-era Frankie’s Bar & Cocktail Lounge and brought tiki back to Las Vegas in a big way. Working with Bamboo Ben, the grandson of tiki pioneer Eli Hedley, Moss created custom Frankie’s Tiki mugs and lined the interior with thatch and bamboo decorations and lit it with appropriately dim lights inside pufferfish lighting fixtures.  The drinks are terrific blends of classic tiki and creative tiki riffs. The number of skulls on the drink indicates how much booze is in them (after a few “five skullers” you may wake up wondering how many skulls you have). That a day among bombs and boneyards could end on a tacky tropical island is just one more example of Las Vegas’ unending capacity to provide the unexpected—off The Strip, it’s remarkably easy to hit the jackpot." - ATLAS_OBSCURA