North Park Hookah Lounge

I can’t say it was horrible it’s pretty chill perfect hang out spot for college or 18+ high school student I would say check It out if your bored and want to just chill

If I could give this place 0 stars, I would. From listing the price of a hookah as $ 13.50 but charging me $ 20 because ‘oops, we probably should have changed the price on the menu…’, to not even being able to tell me what flavor of hookah was given to me, this is by far the worst hookah place I have ever been to. You’d think you’d be able to tell what flavour you’re smoking after a while… but after my experience tonight, my best guess as to what flavor I got is windex. Save your money. Find a place with real service from a guy who isn’t high as a kite, where you don’t have to sit on floor that is DISGUSTING, and where you don’t get scolded like a child for moving those god awful chemical pucks.

Ohhhhh man! This place is hands down the worst business establishment I’ve ever been to, let alone hookah bar. Let’s briefly dissect the plethora of reasons I’d rather consider vivisecting my own testicles than return to this shitshow:
1) Place was decorated by a blind sewer rat
2) Everything feels like it’s covered in hepatitis C.
3) The «staff,» if that’s what you want to call it, was high as SHIT to the point where they didn’t even know what shisha flavors went in each bowl.
4) Didn’t matter what flavors your ordered because it all tasted like burnt Windex and the one high asian kid who worked there insisted he knew were the coals should be at all time… further exacerbating the burnt windex I was inhaling.
5) Here’s the kicker… Menu says each bowl is $ 13.50… so we go to pay, but the high retard working there has the balls to tell us that the menus show the «old price» and each one actually costs $ 20. We literally laughed in his face and told him what he was attempting to pull was illegal. His response was «Oh my bad. We should have changed the menus, but they still cost $ 20.» yeahhh right kid. Go fuck yourself. We asked for the owner/​manager/​whoever hired this fucking dipshit, but apparently the guy was «Too busy to come talk to us.» Hokay, so here’s your 13.50.
Die in a fire of your own making.

After the initial feeling that I could get Hep A (at least) from just standing in that place, we decided to stay. The place was «glorious» — dumpster couches, mosquito nets to bring you closer to the Middle East, hip hop magic from 2000’s, and an albino spider trying to escape for god-​knows how long.
A stoned sweatpant-​wearing man-​child gave us menus, informing us that most of the hookah selections are no longer available. We asked for him to make his favorite.
He returned, not sure what the hell he mixed in there, but I am fairly certain that it was Windex, because that’s what it tasted like.
Once we finally decided to leave, because a fresh new batch of 18-​year olds showed up, this little stoned asshole tried to charge us 20 bucks per hookah, when the menu clearly stated 13.95.
THIS IS A SHITHOLE, JUST DONT DO IT!

The one worker was so slow and he was taking shots of liquor visibly to all the customers. He took a good ten minutes just to ask what we wanted and another fifteen minutes to give us our hookah. And then we got charged extra for no reason. And to top it all off. He gave us the wrong flavor hookah. Like really. Idk. It was just the worst service I’ve ever had. Will probably never come back.

This place is really bad. Im not sure how they are alive. You go in there and its like your in jail you can’t do anything with the hookah unless they do it for you. The people there are out of place. I don’t think any college students would go there. They are really rude there and hookahs are expensive. They do whatever they want there not even caring if your there. I went there twice and I think the second time they overcharged me. You can’t say much because there is people there that are intimidating and not worth questioning..

Decent if you have no where else to go. It’s easy to miss. This place seemed kind of run down and make shift with little decoration. It smelled like hot ass when I walked in. Swag fag central here, I felt like I was the oldest person here (I’m 21.) the hookah was decent, first time ever smoking hookah and it wasn’t that bad. I liked they gave us new mouth pieces straight from the package. Comfy seating. Don’t think I would be back unless all the other hookah lounges are closed lol…

This place is pretty much filled with college freshmen listening to bad pop rap. Hokah tasted chemically. Bad beverage choices and half assed décor and seating. Don’t go…

This place is very sad and pathetic looking. I’m fairly certain it only attracts those under 21 who have nowhere else to go… like the homeless people in the area.
The neighborhood is otherwise, fairly quiet, but this ghetto-​infested junk-​shop brings in some noise.

I went to this place for a friends birthday and I was highly disappointed with the crappy service, not to mention how messy this place while playing rap music which a customer was controlling… Also, most of the electrical outlets don’t work…

When my boyfriend and I walked into this place, we were scared. It was really dark, the hard seats on the floor were uncomfortable, the carpet was missing on certain areas which made the place look dirty and the screaming group of college guys made the experience worse. Also, they had ghetto music playing. We only stayed for about 30 minutes because we were SOOO uncomfortable!!! We were the only ones there sitting awkwardly on the floor as we stared at the college group (who i’m pretty sure are all friends of the young man working there) Btw… He wasn’t even going to check our IDs… Oooo

Loved the chill atmosphere. Low couches on the ground, & dark with minimal lighting. Their hookahs last forever! & never had a bad taste. Good music. Got hookah bubbles. The worker even brought us over an extra hookah for us to taste that flavor. 12.00 $ for a hookah. Good music. Will be back soon!

Relaxed atmosphere and very friendly people and service.

I really like this place. Although I do not visit often enough, I am happy NP Hookah is in the neighborhood.

The interior was really cute– dim with black lights, cushions on the floor, drapy fabrics. The clientele/​staff seems to be completely North Park University Students. The ambience would have been perfect except it really would have benefited from some MELLOW music instead of Korn and «Smooth Criminal» blasting from a computer. Our waitress was a sweetie and the rose shisha was really nice, and decently priced at $ 10 for 2 people. I would have paid extra to hear some middle eastern music though.

North Park was awesome!
I went with a friend of mine and we both agreed that North Park awesome customer service.
They would check up on us to make sure everything was going good.
The hookah was good, we tend to try new hookah flavors everytime we go to a hookah bar. So we were happy on that. The music was good and the design of the area was cool. The seating was different from what we were normally use to but a change is always good. The lights were interesting which I liked.
I say to try this place out!
Oh and I say try the «The Dark Knight» hookah =]

I first visited this place some years ago, when they used to treat you to the sweet-​smelling hand potion, and the owner was actually around to socialize with the frequent patrons, such as myself. The music was always nice, chill, passive, and on topic (middle eastern). The black lights were a hit with the high school crowd, and the shoes off policy imbibed some cultural awareness in the average bubbled-​in teenager. The place received some nice wall treatments, even some painting, and the hookahs were top of the line, as well as well maintained.
Fast-​forward to today, the only people working the place are a handful of greenhorns who value time spent smoking with their buddies over serving the paying-​customers. Granted, if you ask them for something, they’ll do it, but it’d be nice to see some initiative every now and again. The music system is now everyone’s personal player, so whoever is tight with these ‘workers’ (relative term since they mostly sit) gets to blast their blood-​curling playlists whilst we try to enjoy some culturally loaded conversations over some now half-​decent narghilea.
Yes, it does get cold inside in the wintertime. And yes, you do have to sit on the floor, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Oh my goodness, is all I can say, initially I was all excited as after checking the place out, a month or so ago, I went in with Luan N, asked a couple of Q’s about how much and times of opening, I think the guy that I spoke to was either the manager or the owner, his name was Patt, he was helpful to be truthful, friendly, and told us to come back, he even gave us a card with a free hookah voucher on it… nice!
Ok, so now came the visit to cash in the free hookah, ok this was the deal, there were 5 of us, and we ordered x3 Red bulls, the total came to a whopping $ 26 holy crap, thats some expensive red bull. According to the Staff, we were charged, $ 5per person and only x3 of us were charged, and the red bull was $ 3 per person, so total including tax it came to $ 26 with the discounted hookah…
I’ve been to a couple of hookah joints in Chicago, and this place takes the biscuit, and the tin and the shoes off my feet, it was just ridiculous. The hookah itself was oookkkay. nothing special, supposedly it was the house special called the «red line,» a mix of raspberry, strawberry and cherry, to be honest I tasted a hint of strawberry and that was it. Not too impressed to be honest.
The staff were very friendly and helpful, the place was a little dark, with «black» light so a novel atmosphere and all you can see is glowing teeth and white clothes.
So…would I ever go back… I can comfortably say a big hell no, for the money and the atmosphere I would rather go somewhere else. Thanks NorthPark hookah, and no thanks.

Few months back on the way to Carthage Café, we stopped by to just check out the scene. The manager gave us a card for a free hookah on the next visit.
We needed an hour to kill, so we decided to cash in on the voucher recently. So they said the voucher was valid. We didn’t want to be total leechers so we ordered 3 red bulls and the one hookah for the five of us. When we went to pay for our order, the tab was $ 26. We did a double take because we thought we just had to pay for the drinks. They charged us $ 9 for the red bulls, which is an acceptable mark up (although, I’m pretty sure the menu said $ 2/​red bull). Then they claimed that the hookah was free ($ 9) and 2 people were credited ($ 10), so we had to pay $ 5 p/​p for the other 3 guests.

So you’re saying if we didn’t have the voucher, our tab would be something like $ 43 for one hookah!!! That’s total B. S!!!

Some places like the House of Hookah require that there is a 3 person max/​hookah. Which is totally fine because we would have at least got two hookahs for the same price at North Park. What was even more unsettling was the hookah was horrible. It was too heavy and harsh, with absolutely not a trace of fruit flavor. I’m a pretty even keel guy, but that night I just wanted to trash their $ 25 speaker system hidden behind the curtain. When you listen to bose audio at home and have to listen to audio worse than my laptop for an hour, and then get underhanded, that would drive you mad too!

North Park Hookah was the first Hookah place I’d been too. I liked the laid-​back atmosphere and that it was always small and intimate. The owner, Sam was always really friendly and personable. They had a lotion that you rubbed on your hands to accentuate the hookah flavors. The downside-​it closed pretty early. In fact, I see the owner at this other hookah place after he’s done. In winter it can get pretty cold, because you’re sitting on the floor and whenever someone comes in a blast of cold air rushes at you and since you’re not wearing shoes it just shoots through you. The early close time is my only real beef though, for a hookah bar anyway.