Shisha Cafe & Deli

I have always enjoyed this little place! I have been coming here for years and I always receive the best service. Their menu has plenty of options to choose from. I have had the gyro, Fattoush salad with chicken and their side items.
I was impressed with their Fattoush salad that was delicious especially since I decided to add grilled chicken for protein. Packed with flavor and very filling. I know this is my spot if I ever have a craving for it. Any other plate that I have ordered has been great as well. Enjoying the food and the ambiance of a hidden spot like this makes all of the difference.
It is small in size but they have seating inside and outside. It tends to get packed on the weekends but its worth coming to visit while you smoke hookah and enjoy the live music that they have. It allows you to emerge yourself in the culture and the beauty of it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I always do.
Attire is casual and parking can be a bit difficult when it is busy. If you cant find parking they have additional parking behind the restaurant on the side where there is a bar located next to it. Park on the side of the street at your own risk! I have never seen anyone get towed but I would play it safe and try to park as close to the back parking lot as you can.

First time here. And not impressed!
Waitresse was RUDE!!!
She told me to sit down even when I told her that I was ok, she yell at me to sit while waiting for my change.
I had a falafel sandwich, it was overall good. However for the size was expensive… I am used to getting the same sandwich in other restaurants for less money and bugger size.
Also, it took them 20 min for my food to be trady, I was the only one in the retardant.

Absolutely perfect. Oh wait, I meant it’s horrible. Please don’t go. You might ruin a hidden gem.

It is so BAAAAAAAAAAD … First of all the service was poor. I don’t recommended at all … They are a big layers.
not clean

I came on a rainy night and it was very chill. They were very attentive to the coals as to what I read in the previous review. They had mediocre customer service. Overall good quiet chill sppt.

I’ve been going to Shisha Express for 5 years now & I can honestly say its the best hookah & food around! As an Arab I will pick at every flaw in a hookah, but they have continued to impress me. They use quality tobacco & the best arguilehs (hookahs) from Egypt. A lot of the hookah places don’t even clean their hookahs properly or sometimes not at all. But Shisha Express thoroughly cleans their hookahs & hoses as well. Whether its empty or packed, the charcoal guys will always keep you loaded with fresh hot coals. Shisha Express uses natural charcoal unlike most of the hookah places around. This makes the hookah much smoother & you taste more of the flavor. Versus the other places that use instalight coal, which has gun powder in it (that’s how it lights so fast). As for the staff, they are all so sweet & welcoming. I’d recommend this place to anyone wanting great hookah & delicious Mediterranean food!

Used to like this place! I was craving for any of their «used to be» deserts but baklava but they don’t have any just baklava. Inside out is doing their hokkah thingy! I love Mediterranean places but they allow the hokkah inside and its dizzying those who doesn’t hokkah like me. Anyways used to be my favorite hotspot but can’t even breath when i stepped in.

I used to come to this place all the time when I lived on westhimer. When I went every weekend the food was amazing, the prices were good, the shisha was good, I never had anything to complain about. But when I went a little while ago it seems as if the food as declined, as well as the service. If you like to smoke Shish, this is the best place i’ve found (besides doing it at home). Other then that, the gelato is amazing and they even have live music/​belly dancer on saturday nights.

This place is great the cuisine was amazing and the hooka was top notch they actually used a orange as the bowl which gave the hooka a great flavor

It is the best, very nice and clean. Staff are very friendly and helpful.
I recommend it for those who like piece of mind.

overpriced and boring atmosphere. The tea is great at the first cup but after that, it’s terrible. If my pot of tea is going to cost 7.50 then I expect to be top quality. The parking situation is bad and the place is an overall headache.
Would skip

Nothing express about this place. I got there at 9:10 pm and my roasted chicken came at about 10:15 pm. I was charged $ 2.50 for a horrible super sweet lemonade, probably powdered. The owner was smoking shisha a or hookah instead of tending to clientele. They were short staffed. My eyes burn now, probably from the hookah smoke inside the restaurant. The food was good but service… they need to get their act together. By the way. this is a BYOB place and waiter couldn’t find a wine bottle opener.

I feel like I found a diamond in the ruff. This place was not the fanciest, but the food and service were exceptional.
Food is amazingly cheap. Around 5 $ for an appetizer and 7 – 13 for a dinner plate. You can BRING YOUR OWN BEVERAGE (beer, wine or whatever) they placed it on ice and there was no corking fee.
We got the mango HOOKAH, was average but you can smoke inside and the coals were replaced non stop.
The service was excellent. The server recommended foods to us and brought the food out very fast.
We had 2 appetizers, 2 dinner and a hookah for 40 $.
You definitely should try this place.
Don’t judge it by the cover :)
Great quality for the price!

Shisha Café is one of the best places in Houston. Great food, Welcoming environment, a place to relax, get work done on wifi, and hang out and enjoy why Houston is good.

Shisha Express by far onenof the better shisha bars I’ve been to! Joe is an awesome waiter and most certainly very attentive! The foods great as well!!! We will definitely return very soon!!!

I want to give this place a 4 because they do serve clean shisha and food is good but the when I went yesterday the treatment I received was unacceptable. I came with my friend and chose to sit inside because its cold. The restaurant was not packed nor have I ever seen the place really packed. It was just us 2 and we picked 4 seated table. The waitress then tried to move us to a shitty table by the doors. I said no why do we have to move when there are other parties of 2 seated at 4 seat table. Their excuse was that it was going to get busy so they wanted to move us to a smaller table by the door. It never got packed that night. To top it off after the awkward exchange the waitress never came to check on us. If it were not for the bad service and unfair treatment this would be a decent place. Maybe if I was a middle aged Middle-​eastern man I could of gotten better service? Hmmm…

The service was terrible even though we were 2 of 4 people that was dining. I ordered the gyro plate that was overpriced in my opinion. The waiter didn’t even come to check on us once and then we had to walk to the front counter to pay our check. I’m sure the hookah is good, but don’t go there for the service or reasonably priced food!

Got the beef kabob sandwich and it was really good. Met the owner and he has great customer service and good relationship with clients. The price is right
Too. I look forward to getting back to try their gyros and their lamb

This place have very nice shisha after discovered that they have
Fakher but you need to ask for it because they don’t
Tell you

I give 3 stars because of good shisha and friendly staff/​environment.
Our waitress was super nice and gave us lots of attention UNTIL we got our food. Then we didn’t see anyone for the rest of the night basically. We had to get up and find someone to get drink refills, fresh coal, the ticket, etc. The food was not special, but their gelato looked very good. I ordered some for dessert, but it never came. Strange.
Oh also, BYOB!!!