Huna Tiki Bar Ann Arbor — Rum Cocktails, Menu & Hours
The team behind Echelon takes the basement and bets it on rum.
Ann Arbor hasn't had a tiki bar in a long time. Hunã opens this week in the basement of 200 South Main, under the team that just earned a James Beard semifinalist nod for the dining room upstairs.
The choice tells you something about how Joseph VanWagner is reading the room. Echelon's dining room is small and controlled, the kind of place that earns Beard nods. The basement is the opposite bet: rum, volume, theater. Two concepts at one address, separate doors.
The cocktail list is rum-forward, classics and originals, with the glassware the genre demands. Food is short, built for sharing rather than ordering down a menu. Hours run later than upstairs, which gives away who this is for: the people who've already eaten, looking for a second stop on Main.
The question isn't really whether Hunã is good. VanWagner's track record makes that the safer bet. It's whether Ann Arbor wants a tiki bar, or whether this works on credit Echelon already earned. A few weeks of trade will answer it.
Hunã Tiki Bar, 200 S. Main St (basement), Ann Arbor. Open evenings, later than Echelon upstairs.