About Hawaiki

Hawaiki is a one-of-a-kind Tiki Bar & Polynesian Restaurant, born in Bellaria Igea Marina from the creative vision of bartender and owner Samantha Migani. The name “Hawaiki” refers to a Māori term widespread in Eastern Polynesia, meaning the origin of life, traditions, and ancestral cultures: the mythical place from which everything begins and to which everything returns.

For Samantha, Hawaiki embodies exactly this idea: a paradisiacal island where a sensory journey takes shape through aromas, flavors, and influences that blend ancient Polynesian traditions with modern, innovative mixology and culinary techniques.

Hawaiki is conceived as a world of its own—an exotic refuge where guests are transported far away without ever boarding a plane. Every detail, from the tropical décor and music to service rituals and dishes, is designed to immerse visitors in a warm, enveloping parallel dimension, rich in cultural influences and ancestral inspirations.

Every cocktail and every dish at Hawaiki is a single signature creation: original expressions designed as individual experiences, yet paired together in a carefully curated journey meant to awaken the senses and surprise. The culinary influences intertwine with mixology to create the Rum Rhapsody, a journey through powerful potions inspired by rum styles from around the world.

The result is a taste adventure that may begin in a shell, continue in a coconut, be served in a tiki mug or on an unconventional plate—always with a strong connection to nature and its most authentic roots.

Hawaiki’s mission is to stimulate the senses, intoxicate with unexpected aromas and flavors, and transport guests into a new, vibrant, primal, and emotional dimension. The venue was created as a small parallel world where guests can experience “a dream in a glass and on a plate,” through native, exotic, and ancestral preparations reinterpreted with a contemporary approach.