Karma

Came here on a Thursday night and had a great time! 11 – 12 is buy one get one drinks and they were strong! Great deal! Great music and a good vibe. Only problem here is they automatically ad 20% gratuity onto every bill.

I’m not a smoker, and cant stand cigarettes and didn’t know this place allowed ppl to smoke, but the ambiance was very nice, chill laid back and it was after work and not crowded so me and a friend stayed, sat at the bar for happy hour.
BTW it was also a Thursday after work happy hour. Bartenders were very chill and mentioned happy hour so we could get drinks for cheaper. Very friendly, talkative. Good music.
Only cause of the cigarettes, I wont come to often. Once in a blue. But if you don’t mind, then you will enjoy. If you mind, but still want to come, just go during a week day after work when there aren’t that many ppl in there smoking to begin with.

So this is my first time here, and as soon as I get on the line there’s a 20 minute wait. I have to pee and this is nonsense. I’ve been to almost every club, and lounge, in Manhattan and never had to deal with this before. I will never again come to this establishment and I’m going to make sure that none of my people do either.

This place is cool an very vibrant. the hookah is off da hook. its one of those places u can just sit back an chill plus u can go downstairs an dance if u wanna turn up.

karma hookah bar is just a great party vibe and often very crowded.
you can smoke inside this hookah spot. which a plus.
plenty of hookah lounges, so no matter what time you can get a seat.
an there’s a dance floor downstairs, if you and your pals want to party.
it’s just always has a feel good feeling because it’s low lights, judgement free zone

If you are looking for a «crowd» then come to Karma.
But if you are looking for good service, amazing hookah, and well made drinks do yourself a favor and skip this place.
I visit here often don’t get me wrong. This is a good spot to come to with a group of ppl. on the weekend and also a chill spot to visit with a small crowd during the week. This place always has something going on. You know what they don’t have going on though? SERVICE.
Like WHY?! It should never take more than 20 minutes for me to be approached by a waiter of some sort. It should never take another 20 minutes to receive hookah. Also, it should not take FOREVER to get the bill. If I request a bill and you take more than 25 minutes to give it to me guess what… I will be leaving with just as much money as I came with because you will not get paid. DON’T PLAY THOSE GAMES WITH ME!!!
The drinks are a little watered down but they’re not too pricey to really care. The hookah is blah I’ve had better (at my house at that). I really only come here because everyone loves this place for its crowd and music and yes you do end up having a good time. They just REALLY need to work on their service.

This place was horrid tonight (Halloween). I use to love Karma. I really like the music they play and the aura… tonight was disgusting. My friends and I got a table for hookah upstairs and it took 268 years to get a hookah and our drinks. It was extremely busy but one waitress for a whole hookah room? That was really crazy. It was a really ratchet experience. The security (trashcan emoji), the waitress… basura, the fact that sometimes debit cards don’t work because of scammers was the cherry on the ice cream… I was appalled. Oh and the people they were letting in. Ew. Didn’t even check people. So they’re could have been weapons in there. It was nuts. This overweight stripper was acting crazy with my friend. Scratched her eye trying to get into a fight with her… disgusting. Then got into another fight outside and what did the security at Karma do… continued to keep checking IDs to continue the fraudulent activity they’ve been experiencing from their guests. I wish I can put –8 stars. I’m never going there again.

The service was great, our waitress often asked how we were doing and everything was brought out in a timely manner.
I wouldn’t come here for hookah though. I don’t respect any hookah place that uses quick light coals, especially when they charge $ 4 for a coal change. I’ve been to a dozen hookah bars and this is the only place that charges you for changing coals that’s I know of.
Service of Waitress: 5 stars
Hookah quality: 1 star

There is a great party I have experienced there called ether I had a amazing time there drinks are great and everybody is so nice

This place smells like a filthy 80’s Camaro, from the pungent ashtray stench of a chronic smokers apartment to the mildew forming in the cheap beer spilled in the furniture. Don’t go there, ever, no matter what friend of a friend is performing their stand-​up. And if you do, head straight for the shower and don’t even let your clothes into the hamper, just put them in a plastic bag by the door and take them straight to the cleaner… or better yet, burn them.

Hookah was sub par. Right off back, service was really slow. But all in all of toy are looking for a great hang out on a Friday night with African music, Caribbean music, and hip hop, this is the place.
Drinks were a little watered down though. I didn’t appreciate that when I received bill.

I’ve been here twice, both times to smoke a cigar and chill at a bar.
There is a cigar shop right by the place where you can get one and you are allowed to smoke in the venue.
Obviously, you can also smoke hookah here and chill.
I went on a Friday and there was also music playing downstairs. Checked it out and it looks like they were trying to start a dance party, but the DJ wasn’t very good and the music kept changing too frequent to dance to.
Friend and I ended up leaving to dance at another bar in the area.
I’d recommend checking this place out if you want an inexpensive place to smoke a cigar or some hookah.

If you want to go to a place and leave with the scent of cigarettes on your body then this is the place for you. Make sure you bring your eye drops. It is one thing when your smoking hookah. But is another when cigarettes are allowed. You definitely should bring some Lysol on the go spray with you. So, you don’t go to your next bar smelling like an hooker.
The bartenders are awesome, never had a problem with them. But for people who are just coming for some hookah you will enjoy yourself. Seriously, if you hate the scent of cigarettes I don’t recommend this place for you, especially if you are a non smoker. Drinks are always very strong and they do have buy backs. They have no cover which I always found appealing.
:BATHROOM ALERT:
When walking over to the bathroom always go to the bathrooms that are on the right, never the left. That bathroom on the left always has no room to stand if this place is packed. I am glad they always have the toilet paper and soap dispensers full.
The downstairs area has shows and music events. There is a lot of space to dance if you want to so dance like no one is watching. It is a pretty chill spot if your going with a group. This is a wonderful place for a winter night for a smoker who wants to stay in the bar while they drink. The do have good drink specials.
I like that it is a dark and dingy spot tho. I’ve always wanted to sit in the front area by the couches. But they seemed to always be backed. You will start to have the bartenders know your name if you go a lot. They are very personal and cool.
I give the TWO STARS because of the atmosphere (CIGARETTE). If you can deal with that then this is a 4 star spot definitely.

Music was good, but that’s about where it stops. Seats are made for small children, one bartender was very friendly so I give a nice shout out to Arianna but the other bartender felt the need to have stank face all night and give some attitude along with it. I purchased a fruitbowl hookah which comes advertised as apple or grapefruit but no actual fruit is involved in this hookah, it’s just flavored hookah at twice the price. I also ordered one of their combo hookah deals which is a hookah with either a bottle of wine, liquor or a carafe of sangria. I ordered the carafe of sangria combo and they proceed to give me a small glass of sangria. That combo is $ 60!!! The bartender proceeds to tell me with a straight face that that is what the combo is supposed to come with, just a glass of sangria. I had to have them speak to management to apparently help them understand what the word carafe means. They proceed to give me a carafe of something which is not sangria but more like a carafe filled with cranberry juice.
In conclusion, Arianna you were very friendly and accommodating, music wasn’t bad at all, but I just felt this place really tried to rip me off and just overpriced bad hookah. We were able to smoke our cigars inside which was a plus but just too many good hookah spots to ever attempt to give this place another try.

It says here the way to get to Karma is to take the F train to 2^nd Avenue but I’m pretty sure I also slipped through some kind of space-​time wormhole to get there. Smoking cigarettes inside and $ 3 beers? Where — no, WHEN am I?! This is amazing, like a bar from the recesses of my memory.
Friends, we live in a world where smoking has been banned indoors in FRANCE and SPAIN! And NEW ORLEANS! We must hold on to what we can. When the apocalypse hits, smokers meet at the Karma. Then we take Berlin.

Holy. Crap.
Unskilled bartenders.
Uptight crowd.
I’d like to highlight the unskilled bartenders.
Patrons who also work here (?) walking behind the bar, constantly, distracting the bartenders…
I’ll just say it. It’s ghetto. It’s «ratchet».
The actual «bartender» decided to leave at 2am leaving a friendly bartender/​barback behind whom I just literally poured a draft for the correct way…
Oh. My.

Excellent place for Hookahs and a great environment to do it at.
Good ambiance, it is lounge-​like more so than club like, music can be loud but I talk loud anyway so my friends can always hear me. They have an awesome selection of hookah flavors and alcohol to go with it and the price is average and not over the top. The ground floor is spacious to walk to where you need to go whether that be the John or going to the door as the smoke can make the place pretty congested.
If you mind your clothing smelling like smoke, whether that is cigar/​ettes, hookah or something else you use to identify the term, this is not the place for you. Though i’ve been here about 4 times, I’ll certainly be back.

Ironic this place is called Karma.
I’ll admit the first time I came here I reallly enjoyed the place. Service was a little slow but the hookah was good, the vibe was just right too, and I was with friends and it all turned out just right.
But after my last visit, I will never go back there and will discourage any of my friends from going there as well.
Walked in with a date. Hit with a cloud of cigarette smoke, since this place still allows cigarette smoking in their bar. I could deal with it but it was already tough for my date, but decided to sit in the back and just brave it.
Basically over the course of the next 10 – 15 minutes after being seated, we had to wait so long to even snag menus and then no one even came over to take our orders.
With so many hookah bars/​lounges in the area, i couldn’t believe the service was that bad. We left, went elsewhere, and received great service and attention, without the obstrusive cigarette smoke to boot, and had a great time. Oh yeah this place was down the block too.

My friends and I partied here for a 30^th birthday last year. This place delivered on so any levels. The only reason they got ⁴⁄₅ stars was the service. Our waitress wasn’t as prompt or efficient as we would have liked, but the the drinks are awesome and music was great. The girls and I enjoyed our experience.

Sucks. The place is a dump. The ambience is worse than a 3^rd world country’s lavatory. The bathroom… Jesus. use yours before you enter this place. The hookah is burnt… and made me nausea. The place also allows for smoking which screws with the hookah scent. The table and chairs are tiny… they aren’t even strong enough to hold up a petite person.
This hookah bar is aptly named. It will bite u in the ass and stomach… vomited as soon as i got some fresh air… that’s how bad the hookah was.