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| - I'm glad to say that the music has finally been turned down in this place. Awtash is visually stunning, but at the same time, as mentioned in a previous review, depending on your tastes it can be either whimsical or "douchey" to walk in and see a very stylized Persian lounge full of velvet and glaring lights.
The waitresses are all very kind, but they come around once in a blue moon, and the place always opens about 15 minutes late. They know the menu top to bottom and can give you recommendations on anything.
The food is delicious, especially the thin crust pizzas and dips, but as someone with a sesame allergy I have to say that pretty much everything I have eaten here besides the sorbet has triggered an allergic reaction. If you're one of my sort, be sure to ask whether anything has tahini or sesame seeds on top, because the flatbreads, the mirza, and all sorts of other things all contain sesame.
Now to be honest I'm from Markham and all of the shisha bars here are in extremely seedy looking places. I have very little experience with shisha. I've been to two places -- this place and a smokey smelling shawarma place on Yonge and Bloor with bummed out couches that has shisha for half the price of this place and is run by a guy who uses something like a can of pomade in his hair. Don't take my word on shisha, but the shisha here is good, you get something like 1-2 extra coals without being charged, there's a nice range of flavours, and because there's so much room here usually you can smoke as long as you like without any pressure to leave.
Still, I wish that there was a bit more variety on the menu (everything available, excluding desserts, is very dry and sort of heavy) and that service might hurry up, given as it's never ever busy when I come... nonetheless, a nice place to go.
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