Mahalo Michael

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The wedding reception was held at Coconut Club at Tiki’s Grill & Bar directly on the Waikiki strip. 

Tiki’s Grill and Bar is centrally located in Waikiki Beach, which is convenient for guests especially for Hawaii destination weddings. The Coconut Club is located on the 21st floor and has amazing views of Diamond Head and Waikiki Beach.

 This Waikiki wedding reception had a Moroccan theme with beautiful flowers, linens, and decor by the ever so talented Designs By Hemingway.  The centerpieces were colorful Moroccan lanterns surrounded by bright roses and orchids.

 The linens were exotically patterned with magentas, oranges and purples.  As the grand centerpiece to this Moroccan themed wedding reception Designs By Hemingway constructed an impressive a towering arrangement of roses, drift wood, and feathers that was a beautiful focal point in the reception.

 This cute couple finished up their Waikiki wedding reception at the Coconut Club watching the weekly fireworks display that Hilton Hawaiian Village puts on every Friday night.  This was a wonderful wedding coordinated by Katy Castillo Weddings.  Congrats to Rachael and Reginald!

Mahalo Nui Loa,

Michael C. Miller
Director of Sales & Marketing
Tiki's Grill & Bar

808-923-Tiki (8454)

MichaelM@tikisgrill.com
www.TikisGrill.com

Last month Tiki’s setup a dinner for United States Department of State.  The dinner was with some of President Obama's classmates and teachers, and reporters.

Reporters had the opportunity to dine and conduct TV interviews with some of the president's colleagues from his Punahou School days in our Lava Tube Room.

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Mahalo to Heather for her Knot.com review of Tiki's Grill & Bar. You made our week!

"We had our Reception here and the staff was amazing and the food was just as good! We had it out on the balcony and the view was just breathtaking! Not to mention they had a band that night that just topped everything off! Great reception to end the night after an awesome Wedding! Thank you!"

Heather and TJ hosted their destination wedding on Hina’s Lanai is an open-air area near live music. We stationed off this area with plants to make it a private party. The lovely lanai location is right between the pool deck, bar, and the band music hut.

The name Kiawe immediately brings to mind something smoke-flame-broiled flavor or a thorn that poked your foot. Our friend Justin added a few pieces of Kiawe wood after he got his fire going-burning grill. Lamb chops were enjoyed by all.

The first kiawe was planted in Hawaii in 1828; today it is a ubiquitous shade tree and invasive weed on the Hawaiian Islands, but provides firewood for heating and cooking.

 

Prosopis pallida (syn. Prosopis limensis) is a species of mesquite tree. It has the common names kiawe, huarango, and American carob, as well as "bayahonda" (a generic term for Prosopis) and "algarrobo blanco" (usually used for Prosopis alba). It is a thorny legume, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, particularly drier areas near the coast. While threatened in its native habitat, it is considered aninvasive species in many other places.

The kiawe is a spreading bush or moderately-sized tree, bearing spines, spikes of greenish-yellow flowers, and long pods filled with small brown seeds. It is a successful invasive species due to its ability to reproduce in two ways: production of large numbers of easily-dispersed seeds, and suckering to create thick monotypic stands that shade out nearby competing plants. It survives well in dry environments due to a long taproot. It is so efficient at extracting moisture from soil that it can kill nearby plants by depriving them of water. It can be found in areas where other plants do not grow, such as sandy, dry, degraded slopes, salty soils, disturbed areas, and rocky cliffs.

The tree grows quickly and can live for over a millennium. It makes a good shade tree, and its hard wood is a source of long-burning firewood and charcoal.^[1] Kiawe pods can be used as livestock fodder, ground into flour, sweetened into molasses or turned into beer.^[1] The light yellow flowers attract bees.

At times the tree was used to replace forest and prevent erosion, and once it was established it generally dominated the habitat. It was introduced to Puerto Rico and Hawaii as well as New South Wales and Queensland in Australia and is now considered to be naturalized in those places. 

 

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What a fun night! Mahalo to all the staff worked. All the Tiki Alumni and staff that came in!

Charlie was one of the coaches while I was on the UH sailing team.
Charlie currently skippers a J-24 on Thursdays night races at KYC. And
wins!