Cool spot that I did not expect to find in Bakersfield California. They have a large selection of mixed drinks. Was not overly packed during the week and it was free.

We visited Tiki-Ko after dinner in Bakersfield and we are SO pleased that we did! Not only is the bar super cool inside, the staff are incredibly friendly and chatty, and the cocktails are excellent and expertly made. Benny on the bar was great fun and wow, what a Singapore Sling. We were honoured to meet the wonderful owners who also showed us the sister bar which is downstairs, also very cool. We had an absolutely brilliant night at Tiki-Co and will route to Bakersfield again to visit

We chose this bar because they claimed to offer a Mai-Tai based upon the 1944 version of Trader Vic’s recipe. We were not disappointed with their classic Mai-Tai. The bar is relatively small and it was full on a Sunday afternoon.

I love this place! It's my date go-to place after a hockey game or just hanging out. The tropical drinks are amazing and the atmosphere funky-friendly. I don't think I have ever been there when I didn't talk to the people at the next table.

The Tiki-Ko is a great rendition of a classic tiki bar that opened in 2015 in downtown Bakersfield. It's a small place and as yet has no food but they supposedly have plans to expand. It has great Tiki feel and decor, dark with coloured lighting and bar area, a collection of old tiki mugs, and other tiki/Polynesian/Asian decor appropriate to recreating a tiki bar in the classic mid-20th-century style. The servers we encountered were friendly, enthusiastic and very good. They have a wide range of classic tiki drinks both standard and unusual, which they do very well, using old recipes from the likes of Trader Vic and Don the Beachcomber. Some are a little too citrusy and sour for my tastes, and a couple taste a little too similar, but overall this is an excellent place, at least if you like tiki things like we do. I've been to better, but rarely and until a recent revival tiki places had largely died out while the only other on I know of currently in the entire Central Valley is another new one all the way up in Sacramento, so this is the one place in this whole region. It is conveniently located for walking, near restaurants and shopping on the eastern edge of downtown's core.