Hookah Bars NYC- Hookah Bar Number 10

Ok well i have to admit that i have been slacking in the shisha and hookah department. i have a great big list of hookah and shisha bars that need to be reviewed and i just have not had the time lately to go out and review one. i was supposed to go to a hookah bar in the east village tonight but yet again i got tired and fell asleep. well this is just going great for me. i have one job to do and that is to go out and review hookah bars and smoke shisha. what a hard life i have! i get paid for going out and smoking shisha out of hookahs at hookah bars and i cant even do that! this is kind of silly because my only responsibility is going out and basically having fun. i guess i am not really doing my job to its fullest potential. Well i am making a commitment to you and myself that i will have two more hookah bars reviewed by early next week and they are going to be of the hookah bar in williamsburg, brooklyn and another hookah bar on the lower east side. I am going to go to the hookah bar on the lower east side to smoke shisha tomorrow night and the night after i am going to williamsburg to smoke some shisha at the hookah bar off of bedford ave. Cheers!

Hookah Bars NYC- Williamsburg Part 3

i was walking around bedford avenue today and i realized that i need some shisha in my life. i needed a hookah right then and there and if i could not have it i was going to be mad. i guess i was going through acute tobacco withdrawl. so i went to north 4th stree between bedford and driggs in search of this hookah bar that i have heard so much about. when i got there it looked in the window and it looked like it was closed. i knoked on the door and no one came to rescue me. I heard that this place was in the process of closing down but i did not think that it was going to be so soon. whenever i walk by this place it always seems closed and there is a sign on the window that says that it is up for rent. now sometimes i drive by this bar and i see that there is shisha and hookas being smoked and i wonder if i should go in. so one day i mosied on in there and i found the door open but there was no one in there! i could not understand why there was on one there but i figured this was the reason that they are closing the place soon. I still have really gone there to smoke hookah and shisha but how bad could it be? the area is good and the people are very nice in this neighborhood but i guess that there is not much demand for hookah bars or shisha tobacco in this area which makes me sad...

Hookah Bars NYC- My Own Bar

Today I am not going to review a hookah bar but I am going to tell you about how last night I turned my house into a shisha and hookah bar. We had a party and throughout the course of the night we ended up smoking a lot of shisha and packing wuite a few hookahs for other party goers. We started out the night with some starbuzz melon shisha and packed it into our three hose hookah from Israel. The crowd at the party started cheering as soon as we brought it out and we could not get enough hoses attached to this thing for the amount of people who wanted to smoke it. It was kind of ridiculous. Everyone started circling around the hookah and waiting for his or her turn to get it. People started grabbing for it and were relentless unless they got a quick puff of our magical shisha and hookah. The party was lots of fun and we entertained almost everyone with our shisha and hookah varieties plus of course beer, wine, and liquor. We brought out many shisha varieties throughout the night which proved very useful for the shisha craving crowd. The best part of all of this was, we did not charge a thing! And the hookahs were blazing all night long as we broke out all three of our hookahs and turned my house into an all out hookah party! Tomorrow we will get into our review of the Hookah Bar in Williamsburg! Enjoy.

Hookah Bars NYC- Williamsburg

The next bar in our lovely hookah bar reviews will be a shisha and hookah bar in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Now I know that many of you live in Manhattan and do not like the idea of going out into the boroughs but let me tell you that Williamsburg may be the closest thing that a borough has to Manhattan. Williamsburg is the first stop off the L train into Brooklyn at Bedford avenue and it is quite the up and coming area. The L train runs directly across 14th street and is accessible from almost any train. Williamsburg is a great place to sit down and enjoy a shisha hookah of any flavor because of its funky artsy attitude and vibe. The Bedford ave L stop is 10 minutes on the L train from union square, and only 13 minutes from the 8th avenue station at 14th street. The hooka bar that we will be reviewing next is a bar located on north 4th street between Bedford and Driggs and is quite a large place. There is a rumor that it will be closing down soon and it may remain as a hookah bar. In any case we of Williamsburg need a public place to smoke hookah because this is such a fun area and to be without a shisha and hookah bar would be a total let down not to mention it would not fulfill the stigma of Williamsburg being an eclectic, relaxed part of New York City. In my mind any part of New York City that claims to be a “hip” area must have a hookah bar as shisha smoking is quite a trend these days.

Hookah Bars NYC- Review part 5

Ok so hey there! We want to welcome you to our favorite hookah and shisha review site on the planet! This is Hookah Bars NYC. We are a hookah and shisha review site dedicated to reviewing hooka and shisha bars across New York City. I am an independent hooka smoker dedicated to smoking as many hookas and different shishas as possible. I travel around new york and find the best spots to go and smoke hookahs any night of the week. Todays hooka review will add another new criteria, the most low key and relaxed bar available in New York. Now mind you that I have not been to all of the hooka bars in New York yet but out of the hooka bars that I have been to so far, Café Khufu is by far the most low key. Mind you that I went there on a weeknight around eleven o’clock and it was pretty much dead. I really do not know how this place survives in a place like New York City but I did like the extremely mellow atmosphere and vibe that is within this weird Egyptian shisha bar. This shisha is so so and the hookah quality is mediocre like I said the vibe is very mellow and I don’t think you will find many other patrons there if you go there on a weeknight! Well that is it for now as our hookah and shisha review will come to a final end. I am going to start doing one encompassing review a week and I will leave the other days for individual hookah bar reviews.

Hookah Bars-Review

SO this is the weekly of all of the hookah and shisha bars that we have smoked shisha in to date on our wonderful list of reviewed hookah bars. in this review i will give you my top three hookah bars of the week plus my least favorite hookah bar that i have been to so far. SO i bet you can guess that my favorite hookah bar so far is the Hookah Cafe located on the upper east side in manhattan on E60th st between 1st and 2nd avenues. This wonderful little place by far has the best shisha that i have ever smoked. there are many perks of going to this place including the very warm and friendly hospitality of the owners and the baklava is fantastic. everything in this bar is homemade and they do not have anything pre-packaged. they have separate hookas for different flavors and i think that that is just a marvelous idea! the couches are low and the taste of the shisha and their hookas are unrivaled. The Hookah Cafe is the perfect atmosphere for smoking shisha because of the dim lighting and the nice middle eastern music. Even the food at this hookah bar is homemade and delicious! you can read my full review below where i just go on and on about this wonderful little gem on the upper west side, telling all of their little secrets to running the best hookah bar in manhattan and probably the entire state of New York. we will be posting a video clip sometime soon about this bar and have you the user rate it for quality. it will be posted on youtube and links to it will be posted on this blog. more of my reviews of this weeks picks will be up tomorrow! until then, happy smoking and treat your mother well!

Hookah Bars- Hookah Cafe Part 7

Ok this must be the last hookah and Shisha review that we post for the Hookah Cafe. Although we cannot say enough about the quality of this bar and its wonderful service, enough is enough! So in our last post we commented on the wonderful and splendid 3000 year old recipe for hooka shisha called saloum. Saloum is a recipe for hookah shisha that is made with raw sugar cane and burns very hot! the burning temperature of this shisha is so hot that you do not use tin foil to cover the bowl head and the lemon wood coals are placed directly on the shisha. now let me tell you that the saloum is absolutely fabulous! the burn is so hot that you can taste the authentic flavor of the shisha mixed with the heat of the coal. you can taste the heat of the burn of this tobacco. And this shisha is so strong that you can feel the nicotine start at the top of your head and run down your entire body as soon as the smoke hits your lungs. The smoke of the saloum shisha is much less thick than the normal shisha and you must pull a lot harder to get a nice hit. Do not be deceived! a small pull of this translucent smoke will get you very buzzed. This is the super hookah. Be careful! the rich taste of the coals and the pure taste of the sugar cane hookah shisha enrich the experience of the hookah smoking to a near state of collapse. Wow. I am floored from my head to my feet! I can barely bring the hose to my mouth after a few long pulls of the saloum. be prepared for a full body high from the moment the smoke enters your lungs. a real treat for the body and mind, the saloum's authentic taste and feel will take you for a real ride to the pre-civilization, tribal roots of this ancient ritual. the taste is so robust, the synesthetic effect takes place where the taste of the lemon wood coals produce outstanding results that you can really feel.

Hookah Bars- Hookah Cafe Part 5

Ok so here we are back at the Hookah Cafe, where you can smoke the finest shisha available in the NYC area. The Hookah Cafe is located on the upper east side on east 60th st between 1st and 2nd aves. By this time you know that i really cannot say enough about this place in terms of service, knowledge, taste, and atmosphere. now we are going to talk about some shisha that is not on the menu... This i mind you is strictly for professionals. the strength and potency of this shisha leaves me no room to wonder why they do not put it on the menu. it is called Saloum. it is a 3000 year old recipe for hookah shisha that is made with raw sugar cane. This tobacco is smoked primarily by the Hookah Cafe employees and is available by special request only, and is for advanced Hookah smokers only. The way that Ayman described the use of the Saloum was simple. to ride a motorcycle, first you must learn how to ride a moped. to ride a moped you first you must be able to ride a bike. to ride a bike you must first learn to ride a bike with training wheels. So the Saloum comes in four stages. For the beginner Saloum smoker you must first start with the most diluted form of the shisha. after you get used to it after smoking it several times you can move on to the next purest state. Now let me tell you this: the diluted form of the Saloum is so strong that it can literally knock you off of your feet. With one pull you could be set on the shisha for the rest of the night. for an amazing smoke try the Saloum if you dare. and i really mean if you dare...More on this tomorrow...

Hookah Bars- Hookah Cafe Part 3

So i want to explain a little but more about my hookah and shisha smoking experience while I was at the Hookah Cafe on east 60th between 1st and 2nd avenue. Everything about this place is the most authentic that it could be. These guys are the professional hookah people. They have so much information about the products they are selling and the deeply embedded culture of smoking hookas and shisha production. You know why they know so much about all of this cool hookah and shisha stuff? because they do it all themselves! i cannot stress the amzing dynamic that this hookah bar has. this place is a real hooka bar! THEY MAKE ALL OF THEIR OWN SHISHA! You cannot find quality and genuine hospitality like this anywhere. The owner, Ayman, is the most down to earth real deal hookah connoisseur that may exist on the planet. he loves the experience of smoking hookahs so much that he started making his own shisha...and it is fabulous! the way you fell when you walk into the door of this marvelous hookah bar is scintillating. Ayman, the owner of the Hookah Cafe has everything in his shop down to a science. He uses different hookahs for different flavors. he explained that if you smoke a certain flavor out a certain hooka, then that flavor or the smell or the taste ultimately gets trapped in the hookah and the flavor cannot leave no matter how hard you clean it. So in order to provide the customer with the most pure shisha flavor and experience, he uses only certain hookahs for certain flavors. The apple flavor goes in the apple hookah as to not conflate any of the flavors. in all honesty i have never seen such a tight operation of a hookah bar. The Hookah Cafe is the place to go. i have several more posts to write about this wonderful place so be ready!

Hooka Bars- Le Souk #2

Wow. this place is huge. as we walked past the shisha smoke being smoked out of bubbling hookahs by college kids in collared shirts and black dresses, i realized that this hookah bar was quite the scene. and by scene i mean there were drunken frat guys and sorority girls that were decked out in fancy clothes and sort of reminded me of the west village. this i thought was peculiar since this hooka bar was located in the east village in alphabet city. all in all i thought that the scene was quite plastic. in fact that is one of the only ways i would use to describe this scene. it was very plastic. so as we proceeded through the hookah bar i realized that the dirty house music was coming from down below. what? there is another floor?? now this place is really really big and i could not quite comprehend how a place this size could fit somewhere in the east village. so i decided to walk down the stars to the dance floor where the third alcohol bar was located. across from the now desolate dance floor was another lounge area that was slightly elevated and had pretty white candles on small tables. as we sat there for about ten minutes i wondered why there was no one serving us... as a waitress came by i asked if we could order a hookah and what i though she replied was "you have order at the bar" what she really said was "you have to order a bottle." thsi was the point which i said "what?" wait a minute, the only way we can sit here is if we order a bottle? this was by far the chillest place in this bumping hooka bar and we could not sit there unless we ordered a bottle. what a let down. we had ventured downstairs to escape the plastic twenty somethings to find out that the chill area in the bar was exclusive and that we were not. to be continued....again

Hookah Bars- Le Souk

As i approached this east village hookah bar i realized what i was about to get into... i could hear the top 40 music playing from down the block and i could smell the shisha as well. uh oh. sounds like a deadly combination. there were three bouncers that stood outside of this hookah bar, all with ear pieces, and a velvet rope that sectioned off the entrance. there was a cute woman with a clipboard asking if people were on the list. we were ID'd and let into the crazyness that they call Le Souk. on first impression i though to myself, wow! dim red lights! this was a change from yesterdays sahara east! as i looked around the front room the volume from the top 40 dance tunes started to get to me. i saw many people at dining tables eating very expensive Mediterranean food and i thought to myself, how could anyone enjoy a meal with music this loud?? so we kept on walking into the next room where therewere doxens of people crowded around a bar and people scattered on velvet couches smoking a variety of hookahs and shisha pipes of all different flavors. the top 40 music played on. i suggested that we grab a seat when i realized that there was another room! we walked into the other room only to find more dining tables with people smoking hooka and eating mediterranean cuisine only in this area there was some dirty house music playing along to the subtle bubble sounds of dozens of smoking hookahs....to be continued....