MechAnt Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 (edited) So last night I finally had my first hookah lounge experience. I've been an avid hookaher for half a year now and I JUST went to a lounge because of horror stories I've heard. Luckily, this lounge is owned and run by local Armenians and boy can they setup a lounge!They have an indoor area with many |_| shaped booths and are overflowing with cushions and perfect lighting. Traditional middle eastern brass and colored glass lamps that are hanging from the ceiling along with smaller spot lamps also fron the ceiling pointing to paintings that all have shisha in them. Awesome decor that's all from Arabic design. Outside, they have many tables set up with one area that's covered, and everything else that isn't. There's a large fire pit in the middle and no heat lamps that night because the weather was great. There was a DJ inside and outside each playing a variety of songs from hip-hop to techno to traditional arabic music. Great selection. There were several large plasmas setup around the lounge on mute mostly playing ESPN. The waitresses were HOT but strangely, all Filipino. (Not bashing on my filipinos, but just found it strange cause it is a shisha cafe)Onto the smoking experience.My friend that is a regular said only one flavor is truly the best and went ahead and ordered it. Still in the dark about the flavor, an employee comes over after 10 minutes carrying a beautiful KM Hafa. The lounge uses only KM Hafa or Amer hookahs. It was sporting a Mya Thick hose and a very tall bowl that looked to be made of wood on the bottom where it touches the grommet and looked large enough to grab hold with one hand and topping off the rest of the 3 inches was ceramic and a metal screen that is sunken into the bowl about 1/2 inch and topped off with three 3/4 inch natural fingers. Looking at the chamber, it was already started and ready to go. Upon the first draw, FLAVOR!!!! Awesome! Tart, sweet. After and little thinking, I correctly guessed the flavor to be Kiwi Watermelon. Wow, was it great. After about 20-25 minutes, we started losing some smoke and flavor when an employee with large tongs and a coal caddy comes over, dumps the coals from the bowl out, opens the screen, prodigiously stirs the bowl, and then replaces the bowl and adds two 1 in natural fingers. Smoked like a champ once again until the end of the session another 35 mintues after that. Great smoking experience.The Food!Food was decently priced and boy was it good! They have a variety of middle eastern style of food from kabobs to other kinds of dishes I can't pronounce. Salads, soups, appetizers, fries, burgers. I ordered a special burger that is made from kabob and included great fries seasoned with seasoned salt and had a dollop of ketchup and ranch on the side. That cost $7.95. Food ranges from $2.95 to $14.95 not including party platters that run over $45! They do not serve alcohol which can be a good or bad thing, and they have awesome desserts for about $4. Their teas and coffee are amoung the best I've ever had. I'd pay much more than the $4 I paid for their tea which has free refills. Gratuity is automatically added @ 15%. Service is a little slow but in the calm, chill environment of the lounge, the wait is nothing.Overall, great hookah lounge experience and I'll HIGHLY recommend it to anyone in my general area. (Glendale, Burbank, Los Angeles)(Can't score it because nothing to compare it to!)Hookah Lounge (Great, creative name I know)829 E. Colorado Blvd.Glendale, CA 91205(818) 242-3442Open Mon-Thurs 7pm-1AMSat-Sun 7pm-2AM(they have lunch hours but I don't know them)Hookahs used: KM Hafa and Amer. Hoses are either Mya Wides, KM (the long handled traditional ones), or Nammors. Bowls, unknown but awesome!Tobacco they use: My educated guess, Al Amir. They offer Al Fakher but they overcharge it by a butt load advertising it as premium/VIP.Coals: Nour Natural FingersPricing: $12 per hookah (Al Amir), $5 refillsAl Fakher $16 per hookah, $8 refillsDon't worry, I'm not padding this lounge, just raving about my first hookah lounge experience and giving a review. Edited August 1, 2007 by MechAnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 QUOTE (MechAnt @ Aug 1 2007, 08:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Don't worry, I'm not padding this lounge, just raving about my first hookah lounge experience and giving a review.i dont think it matters. i think its fair to name the lounge regardless if your experience was good or bad. if it was a good experience then they can consider it as free promo (they deserve it if they did a good job imho). if it was a bad experience, well, they deserve the bad promo and maybe they need to shapen up. just my 0.02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 which brings be to another idea...how about a section in the review forum for lounge reviews? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttpintoo Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 QUOTE (chinamon @ Aug 1 2007, 01:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>which brings be to another idea...how about a section in the review forum for lounge reviews?2nd'ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomhauer Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 QUOTE (buttpintoo @ Aug 1 2007, 02:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (chinamon @ Aug 1 2007, 01:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>which brings be to another idea...how about a section in the review forum for lounge reviews?2nd'edit would be a good addition but how to sort it. by state? since having just bunches of random topics with a hookah bar would get annoying. Well if we where to use a guestmap to point to the location of each individual hookahbar also so people can find something close that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechAnt Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 Or even possibly, have an option for members to put a little "thumbtack" on their location on a map. That'd be really cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomhauer Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 well i have a guestmap for peoples location in my sig which is what you want. yeah this is off topic, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Boss Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Why can't there be any good hookah lounges in Nebraska? Sometimes I feel like I was reincarnated as a Nebraskan as punishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 honestly...im glad it was a nice place, but im over paying that much money to smoke crappy shisha.id rather take the money and go out to get good dinner and enjoy smoking at home or at a coffee shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinamon Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 QUOTE (boomhauer @ Aug 1 2007, 10:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (buttpintoo @ Aug 1 2007, 02:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (chinamon @ Aug 1 2007, 01:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>which brings be to another idea...how about a section in the review forum for lounge reviews?2nd'edit would be a good addition but how to sort it. by state? since having just bunches of random topics with a hookah bar would get annoying. Well if we where to use a guestmap to point to the location of each individual hookahbar also so people can find something close that way.well, considering there arent that many shisha lounges in canada and in each other country, i think sorted out by country would be an idea.have a main forum called 'lounge review' then subforums 'americas' and 'europe' and 'asia' or whatever. then subforums in americas would be 'usa' and 'canada' and 'mexico' and 'uruguay' and 'chile' etc... subforums for europe will be 'uk', 'france', germany' etc.... and then people post in the appropriate subforum. within each post they must include name of lounge, address if possible, city, state, hookahs used, brands of shisha server (to best of one's knowledge), coals, food, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryet Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Haha...hot Filipino waitresses...makes me proud.I gotta hit this place up next time I'm home... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaker29902 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 If I ever ran a hookah-longue I wouldnt serve alcohol either, to much of an injury/damage risk imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechAnt Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 In addition to that, alcohol licenses cost quite a penny from what I've heard.Also, Al Amir may be known as a "crappy" tobacco but it gave great clouds and great flavor. Pleasantly surprised by its quality compared to what others have been saying about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victim026 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Theres lots of hookah bars everywhere, sorting by country is a bad idea... I can name 3 dozen hookah bars I've been too just in Texas alone..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomhauer Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 thats why i said by state and then we do a guestmap so people can know its almost exact location. i have a guestmap in my sig for people to put their location so we can set up stuff between eachother easily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anathema Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I think there was already a map like that somewhere on the forum. Had like 15-20 or so people, maybe less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomhauer Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 i will say i never bothered to look, was too lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purp0se Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Al Amir blows. I would never pay for a bowl of Al Amir at a lounge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechAnt Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 Strange how people don't like AA so much... The first time I've ever smoked hookah, it was AA and I was quite happy with it. Even after this lounge experience, I still liked AA. I don't smoke it personally because no one in my area carries it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalSoil Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 I like the little map thing, i added myslef! only one in OK on there. should be a sticky or something. i just put my zipcode so you guys cant get me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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