FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Mai-Kai Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale is set to reopen this Fall.
The Polynesian themed restaurant closed nearly four years ago to undergo a $15 million renovation.
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Miami’s Barlington Group and Mad Room Hospitality started the project in 2020, with the Thornton family who initially opened the restaurant in the 1950s.
It has been reported that the restaurant, located at 3599 N. Federal Highway, would open on Nov. 1, but Local 10 spoke to a representative of the restaurant on Tuesday afternoon and was told it would open sometime in mid-November.
According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Bob and Jack Thornton first opened the restaurant in 1956. The brothers began to offer a 50-minute-long Polynesian show in 1963.