Comments on: Where’s the Tiki in France?

By: charlie bungalow

charlie bungalow — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:25:44 +0000

Abosolutely right ! There is a disastrous lack of Tiki interest in France. It’s like if people don’t even know about Polynesia or don’t care!
Maybe in the heydays of Tiki, when the Americans started to fly to Hawaii so easily, the French couldn’t afford to go to Tahiti, which is very far from France. So it never really took off here… Being french myself, I also believe that most of us French are too boring to enjoy kitch things, and we’re so busy trying to be cool that we forget about having fun…
A tous les Français Tikiphiles, unissons nous et répandons le message !
Le seul endroit Tiki que je connaisse c’est le village de vacances Kon Tiki à St Tropez.
Et encore, reste à vérifier si l’esprit correspond à la déco… Mahalo !

By: steph

steph — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:08:58 +0000

je suis francais et j’adore la culture tiki merci pour ce genre de site

By: franck

franck — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:41:48 +0000

La Nouvelle-Calédonie est une île à TIKI aussi

By: virani

virani — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:33:17 +0000

true. there’s a nice collection in the new museum of Branly. Most of it was in the definct “Musée national des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie”.

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:53:23 +0000

You’re welcome. I haven’t been to the Branly’s new location yet, but I saw part of its collection in the Louvre a couple of years back. Simply incredible.

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:32:50 +0000

Thanks for the tip on the Quai Branly! Looks very cool, I’ve added it to Critiki.

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:29:49 +0000

While France may not have any tiki bars, they certainly have some incredible collections of Polynesan art on display at the Louvre and Musée du Quai Branly.

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:45:43 +0000

When I make it to France someday, I’ll make your home bar my first stop. Well, maybe my second stop, after a visit to a cheese shop.

Good point about the French access to rum. Oh well, more for you!

Let me know if you want your home bar added to Critiki. You could be the tiki ambassador for France!

By: virani

virani — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:50:09 +0000

to answer you, I’ll quote Mr Victor Bergeron himself : “We’ve been asked to build restaurant in Italy, France, Switzerland and many other countries, but we haven’t done it because I don’t think they’d like our food and what we’re doing”.

Maybe he’s true, but you don’t know how much I’m missing a tiki bar in Paris.
There is several tahitian restaurants in France, as there’s a lot of Tahitian living in the metropole, but no real tiki bar. I think french likes too much their wine, and beer.
Strange thing also is that we have lots of rum through french colonies (guadeloupe and Martinique mostly…), and lots of Liquor comes from France, so a tiki bar would not have been hard to do.

If you need a tiki bar to come to France, just come to my home tiki bar, and I’ll mix you a french drink !