Say tropical decor and you immediately picture the 1980s at its worst. Tiki bars: umbrellas in syrupy cocktails, scratchy woven seats, and, inexplicably, musty wall-to-wall carpeting. Back then ...

When you conjure up a vision of a tiki bar, your mind may go to a hut on a sandy beach with a tropical oceanfront location, grass skirting rustling in the breeze. That's why it may initially sound ...