Nieto said customers also prize bamboo fencing for its versatility. While she often sees homeowners using it to create a “ ’50s tiki throwback” look, she also has seen the material used to ...

Mention bamboo and what invariably springs to mind are tiki huts, funky, inexpensive furniture and crudely constructed floor mats. But bamboo is quickly losing this tacky image thanks to some ...

But the Bamboo Hut, which closed about a year ago ... Still, much remains the same, including the animatronic tiki head that keeps watch (and startles customers) above the exit.

Designed and built by Bamboo Ben, a renowned third-generation tiki bar builder, this laid-back neighborhood dive instantly transports you to the tropics with its thatched ceiling, hut-like booths ...

The macaw is mechanical, and the bamboo hut is on a boat in the middle ... On Saturday, the married couple is launching Tiki Hut Boats, which offers 90-minute cruises on “Tiki Time,” their ...

Shanti Pierce wants you to know that bamboo is more than “just for tiki huts,” as she puts it. She loves the plant that she grows and heavily promotes so very much that you might as well call ...

“You can easily do this for $500,” Paine says of his bargain-basement tiki hut. “It’s not all bamboo, but it’s hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars cheaper.” Paine describes the bar as ...

Just months after putting up shipwreck walls and video screen portholes, legendary tiki bar designer Ben Bassham — better known in tiki circles as “Bamboo Ben” — is back in Las Vegas, this ...