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| - The short version: Hit/miss service, delicious iced teas, cheap looking hookahs, but ultimately good shisha. Added bonus? You can watch the flames game here - which I hugely appreciated.
The long version:
I've been to his place quite a few times now when I'm feeling the need to fill my lungs with flavored smoke. It's in my repertoire of "semi-unique places to take people so they think you're cultured and interesting". Hell, it beats Moxie's, at least it looks like you put a little effort in.
This place's service has a serious multiple personality disorder: come with the right people at the right time, and you're like family. Come at the wrong time and you're not going to see much of your server. Like, ever.
Fortunately the last time I was there I had GREAT service, probably because I was with two ladies. I mean, I'm no "Goonies Chunk" myself, but the servers are mostly guys.
The food here is good; most of the time. The fries are in fact delicious. Their peach iced tea (yes, men can order that) was delightful (yes men can use that word).
If you're like me and you want to feel like a Sultan while puffing coconut flavored incense into your windpipe, you'll be sad that the hookah's are nothing special. Plastic pipes. They're not exactly ornamental and they don't make you feel like that caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. I've also had a few unpleasant experiences where I inhaled and it tasted like I had put my lips on a redneck's propane tank. Don't read too far into that.
But what's inside them is good. That is, when it's in stock. Last time i went they were out of most of their flavors. Come on, kids - you're a shisa bar.
The place attracts a real interesting crowd; anime kids, gangsters, hot middle eastern women, fat dudes on a WoW break - everyone's welcome here! I like that about this place.
At the end of the day, this place remains my hookah mainstay. it's not pretentious. It's reasonably priced. The service might sometimes be bad and you might accidentally inhale some lighter fluid, but it's not pretentious and the food's good.
It's just okay. If the service was more consistent, I'd have given it a 4.
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