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The Golden Tiki Las Vegas: Holiday Menu and Tiki Cocktails
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Back at The Golden Tiki in Las Vegas in December 2024, this time for the holiday season. The tiki bar sits on Spring Mountain Road in Chinatown, a short ride off the Strip, and is known for its over-the-top decor, strong tropical cocktails and late hours.

At Christmas the whole place gets a festive makeover: Santa hats on the shrunken heads, lights everywhere, and a dedicated holiday cocktail menu alongside the regular tiki list. (I also wrote up an earlier visit in November 2023.)

Inside the bar

The bar is packed with skulls, carvings, pufferfish lamps and themed nooks – the photos and video below give a sense of the atmosphere, along with a few of the drinks.

The holiday menu

The December 2024 holiday menu ran alongside the usual tiki classics. A few highlights:
- Mai Tai for a Holiday – two rums with orange curaçao and a winter-spiced pumpkin orgeat ($14)
- Pumpkin Batida – cachaça, pumpkin, coconut cream and pineapple ($14)
- Tom & Jerry – the creamy hot holiday classic with Armagnac and dark rum ($15)
- Get Your Goat: A Pagan Christmas Miracle – goat’s-milk eggnog with smoky mezcal and maple ($16)
- Balls of Jolly #2 – dark rum, rye, cinnamon raisin, cranberry and pineapple, with an optional souvenir glass ($15 / $25)
- Holiday Flight – all the holiday sippers for $24, plus a Dole Soft Serve section with boozy add-ons
More drinks and decor

Tips if you go: it gets busy on weekend nights, so reservations are worth making through the bar’s website, and the shareable Kuuipo pineapple and fishbowl drinks are built for groups. Prices and menus change, so check what’s on before you go.

More tiki: Kahuna Tiki in LA and my round-up of Disney bars and tiki lounges.

Planning a Vegas food trip? See Three Days of Eating in Las Vegas from our November 2023 visit.

Make tiki drinks at home

If a trip to a tiki bar gets you hooked, here’s what we’d start with for a home bar. The full list is on our Tiki Bar Gear page.
- Tiki mugs, because the mug is half the fun
- Smuggler’s Cove by Martin and Rebecca Cate, the go-to tiki cocktail book
- Beachbum Berry Remixed by Jeff Berry, classic tiki recipes
- A cocktail shaker set with a jigger and strainer
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December 17, 2024
Three Days of Eating in Las Vegas: Bacchanal, The Golden Tiki and The Buffet at Wynn
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Three days in Las Vegas in November 2023, planned around food: two of the Strip’s best-known buffets, a giant deli sandwich and a night at our favourite tiki bar off the Strip.

Day 1: Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace

We landed and went straight to the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace. Glazed ribs, roast chicken, shrimp cocktail, fried rice, tacos and a shrimp soup, then a plate of desserts. It’s one of the biggest buffets in Vegas, and you can tell.

Day 2: Breakfast, Caesars and The Golden Tiki

Breakfast on the Strip was smoked salmon, shrimp and grits and a bagel, followed by ham and an omelet. Then we walked through Caesars Palace, past the famous Caesar statue in the rotunda.

That afternoon there was time for one souvenir that won’t fit in a suitcase: a new tattoo of a retro flying saucer with rocket flames, done by Jason Tritten at Revolt Tattoos in the Fashion Show Mall.

In the evening we went to The Golden Tiki in Chinatown, just west of the Strip. It has glowing waterfalls, tiki lamps, a wall of shrunken heads and video poker built into the bar. We drank a daiquiri and pink and blue frozen tiki drinks, and one came in a skull mug.

Day 3: Greenberg’s Deli and The Buffet at Wynn

Lunch was a towering pastrami Reuben from Greenberg’s Deli. It was barely enough room for dinner.

Dinner was The Buffet at Wynn, our pick for the best buffet of the trip. There were crab legs, sushi and nigiri, prime rib, and a dessert plate with a churro and strawberry cake.

Where to stay

We stayed at Caesars Palace, right in the middle of the Strip. The Bacchanal Buffet is downstairs, and the Wynn is a short ride north.
Tips for a Vegas food trip
- Space out the buffets. One a day is plenty.
- Go to the buffets at off-peak times to skip the longest lines.
- The Golden Tiki is a short ride from the Strip and stays open late.
- Plan to share a deli sandwich, because the portions are huge.
We went back to The Golden Tiki a year later for the holiday menu. See The Golden Tiki Las Vegas: Holiday Menu and Tiki Cocktails.

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November 15, 2023
The Golden Tiki in Las Vegas
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The Golden Tiki in Las Vegas, a tiki bar in the Chinatown area just west of the Strip.

The bar is known for its dark, kitschy interior packed with tiki carvings, shrunken heads and themed booths, along with a long menu of classic and original tropical cocktails. The photos show some of the drinks from this visit, including a bright blue one.

It’s open late, which makes it a popular stop after a show or a night on the Strip.

This was part of our November 2023 Las Vegas trip. See all three days in Three Days of Eating in Las Vegas.

Make tiki drinks at home

If a trip to a tiki bar gets you hooked, here’s what we’d start with for a home bar. The full list is on our Tiki Bar Gear page.
- Tiki mugs, because the mug is half the fun
- Smuggler’s Cove by Martin and Rebecca Cate, the go-to tiki cocktail book
- Beachbum Berry Remixed by Jeff Berry, classic tiki recipes
- A cocktail shaker set with a jigger and strainer
Originally posted on Instagram.

#LasVegas #GoldenTiki #TikiBar #TikiCocktails #VegasEats #Vegas
November 14, 2023