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’Tis the sea-sun: A rooftop tiki bar comes to Grain in Kennett Square

Scorpion bowls and an Instagram-friendly wall, in the dead of winter.

The tropical drinks flow at Aloha, courtesy of bartender Zoe Reindl.
The tropical drinks flow at Aloha, courtesy of bartender Zoe Reindl.Read moreMichael Klein

Mild winter notwithstanding, we all could use a dose of the tropics.

Restaurateur Lee Mikles has (1) an enclosed roof deck with a lovely view and (2) a fun imagination.

He’s turned Grain Craft Bar + Kitchen in Kennett Square into the Aloha Room, a tiki bar, for the foreseeable future. That means staff in Hawaiian shirts (and wearing Greg Brady-style tiki pendants), scorpion bowls and other umbrella drinks (some frozen), strings of lights, thatched roofs, and tiki everything.

Cheesy fun? Sure.

There’s a mural that’s perfect for Instagram photos. TVs play clips of old movies and TV shows with tropical themes.

The dedicated menu goes all out, too, with a tropical edge.

Fan of pineapple? It’s on the Polynesian chicken, in the slaw that tops the Kalua pork sliders, and atop the blackened mahi mahi.