Aku Aku Tiki Bar

Amazing little Tiki bar in downtown Orlando. The prices are great, specially since they use good liquor bottles, which I personally checked. They got all basics covered, plus their special drink is unique. The bartenders are great and friendly, Dereck is super chill in particular. I definitely recommend, one of the best bars in the area for sure.

Amazing atmosphere. Very fun sippy stuff. Literally took us out of Orlando and put us on Hawaii. Kudos on all levels.

I was excited to try this place for the first time. I love tiki bars. Pluses are the decor, sizes of drinks are very good and prices are fair. I sat at a table but had to go up to the bar and wait just a little bit for the bartender to show up to order my drinks and go back up and pay for them. Not sure if the table serve or that's normal. I would not describe the drinks as well made, handcrafted and certainly not well balanced. I always try the mai tai first to judge the quality of how they approach tiki drinks. Instead of using almond syrup known as orgeat, seemed like they were using simple syrup so my Mai Tai tasted very heavily of simple syrup and the rum came out tasting like tequila. We also tried the tiger fucker. Pretty unbalanced with what seemed like a lot of grenadine, the jalapeno flavor and just gasoline with alcohol. I'm willing to try another visit or two and sample some more drinks. The tables were not cleaned off and we're sticky and the menus look over used, worn and again we're sticky. The place did not feel very clean. If I'm in the area again I'll give it another try but I really wasn't impressed at my first visit on a Sunday late afternoon early evening with just a few patrons in the bar. I want to like this place but it didn't measure up on this visit. Didn't notice that they offer food here so zero stars for that, service was friendly so 4 stars and the drinks 3 stars for being harsh and unbalanced.