Hookah House Cafe

The place is iffy, accordingly with your tourist swag. The waitress, Kendrika (?), is chill and honest. She deserves to learn more about the product she makes tips off of. The owner has agreed to teach his staff more of the ins and outs of a good hookah experience.
We ordered the least sweet drink based on her suggestions… the peach LIT. It was delicious after speaking to the owner about their hookah practices.
The hookah was served with a plastic hose. At home, that’s great! It’s a one time use item that is served in a sealed bag TO YOU! Here, I don’t trust it’s been a one time use because the hookah was delivered with a plastic hose attached. Why would you serve a one time use hose like it’s a practical hose?
We hope the owner, Abdul, takes our suggestions to heart and makes the most out of this business location. We wish him the best!
He is very open to constructive criticism and we appreciate that. You can easily sit on a hookah on for over an hour here. Just let the staff know you’re willing to flip the bill for good service.
We suggest sitting downstairs for optimal service during off peak hours.

This is the worse service I’ve ever received except for one girl who works there everyone else was awful. Customer service is a negative. I’ve gone there twice and both times were terrible. The second time we ended up leaving before we even smoked. Worse service ever! Every other hookah spot in NOLA is waaaaaaaay better!

Terrible service ! Mean and ugly people (literally). Do not ever go here!!! You’ll be wasting your money for no kind of fun at all. I recommend going to another place on canal

Very nice New Orleans style lounge. Good to move back home to the 504 and experience my city doing great things.

Service is terrible, the hookahs were dirty, the servers were very rude. Never going back there again. That place is a nightmare !!!

Other customers here are the worst. We’ve been several times and I own my own nargile pipe. There is no respect for other customers or other cars in a highly trafficked area. Enough said. No respect.

Just left Hookah House after having a terrible experience with our waitress. Did not catch her name, but she had long hair, glasses, and was wearing a grey sweater. She already approached us appearing to be irritated to be there. While attempting to order food, I asked about the grape leaves. She cringed, her face tightening up, then awkwardly paused. After a few seconds, she stated that she didn’t know what was in them because they disgusted her. Not how you’d want an employee to describe food. I ordered something else, and she continued with taking my friends’ orders. When one of my friends asked about the price of a drink, she stated that she wasn’t concerned about the price of drinks because she was currently working towards her masters, and money wasn’t a concern of hers. I found this comment to be incredibly classist and demeaning towards my friend. I have my master’s degree in education, and I know better than to use that privilege as a way to put down others, especially people I’m serving at my own job. Because of her comments towards my friends, and her generally unpleasant attitude towards her job, I decided to leave the establishment without spending any money there. I have no intentions of returning and hope that the managers seriously consider reviewing this employee’s work history and behavior towards customers.

I want to be biased and give them more stores because I’m cool with people who work here but they need to straighten out some kinks.
I’m usually sat in a more private area with actual comfortable couches but some of the sitting areas are like sitting outside on concrete. The chairs are hard and flimsy.
Service takes awhile, so find a menu and tell your server EVERYTHING you need at once because there’s a good chance you won’t see her again for some time.
If you’re going to order a hookah I recommend doing it with a grapefruit on it. It gives it a better flavor.
Only come here on Fri-​Sun if you have TIME. It gets packed (which is good because I remember when they had tumble weeds in here).
Enjoy but follow my tips!

Chill hookah spot in the Uptown/​Garden District area. Nothing too fancy unless your group is dressed up and making a stop along the way. Tons of seating… outside on Magazine Street… as well as inside the venue upstairs and downstairs and on the balcony.
The hookah is nice. I usually stick with what I know. Pineapple based hookah, blue mist tobacco, with a shot of cognac in the base.
We all ordered a few glasses of wine… which were really great pours… if you know what I mean.
As far as the food is concerned. I usually don’t have any from here, but this time around we order wings, tenders and fries which is kinda hard to screw up. Nothing to special.
There’s a few tv’s around the bar that are perfect for watching sports and couches for larger groups. Music as well… playing through the speakers from a local radio station or someone’s phone.
It’s a repeat hangout spot to relax and talk with friends.

A little cool place outside of all the craziness of the French Quarters… lol like this used to be a house of some sort: really cool character; 2 stories, brick walls, plenty of TVs and relaxing ambiance. We were seated upstairs in a very cozy area with comfy couches, large TV. A
The place is clean, good air flow so we never felt stuffed w all the smoking. Service is a little slow. We ordered 2 appetizers and it took a loooong time for it to come out, but once out it was pretty good… The mint tea was flavorful but waaay too sweet. Too sweet to drink for me, and I’m an avid tea drinker…
The main attraction here, the hookahs! They very good. Flavorful, clean, nice flow and lasted a good 1.5−2 hrs…
Overall makes for a good place to hang out w friends for food and hookah.

So my friends come & tell the waitress we have a party of 7. She’s impatient and makes them get off the couch and sit at a small table where water or some fluid is leaking on us. When the rest of our party gets there they say they are out of couches or spaces to fit our party and they can’t combine tables so we’re separated. They then proceeded to continue to seat people at the table we told them water was leaking. They then got our tickets all messed up and included the gratuity in the total as if we had date together as a party of seven. Throughout the night we weren’t the only dissatisfied guest. The service is horrible hookah is mediocre at best. Don’t waste your time or money.

Glad the waitress was nice because that was the only pleasant part of this visit. Say down, ordered drinks with my 2 friends. Soft drinks came out right away, coffee took an extra 45 minutes. Had to hunt the waitress down again to order food… which we were able to do 15 minutes later. Almost an hour later, the food comes out. It’s subpar. I didn’t taste the garlic AT ALL in the garlic hummus & my friend’s wings weren’t tossed in hot sauce like they should have been. Food was blah… service was worst. & to top it all off, the air conditioning unit leaked on me during most of the night. Doubt I’ll be going back.

Not sure why they’re blasting shitty music and are keeping all the lights off. I was thinking I would come with friends to casually talk and smoke hookah, but the atmosphere they’re promoting is much closer to ratchet club. Don’t come here unless you want to sit next to your friends and not be able to hear them at all

The vulgar rap music was so loud it was obnoxious, chicken shawarma was burnt to a crisp, rice was dry, sage tea arrived unsweetened, fresh pita delivered after we were ½ done with our meal, so cold inside we were shivering, waiting couch full of holes, service was very slow, upstairs area dingy, salad dressing arrived in to-​go containers even tho we dined in… ugh

The voice in my head just spoke to me in the spirit of Fred Sanford «YOU BIG DUMMY!!!“Ive had better Mediterranean food from Krogers frozen food section. Ive had beef from around the world and Im sure that wasn’t beef that they served me maybe garlic rubbed ground camel hump or space shuttle beef aka mystery meat for Jr. High school.
Maybe they are known for the Hookah. I stumbled upon the Hookah House walking to Halfmoon and I rolled the dice. KRAP OUT!
(Voice Again)
«YOU BIG DUMMY!!!» This is worst Mediterranean food Ive ever had in two life times… I can’t believe they served me salad with Wishbone dresssing in a container like it was house made and that was the best tasting thing on the plate. I kid you not my yellow rice was harder then finding a job. Asked me if I wanted to take the unfinished food with me…(YOU READING THIS MAKE A CRAZY FACE AND READ ON) NO!!! If I take it with me and throw it out Im scared that the local seagulls would get it and hunt my truck down and poka dot it for giving them such bad food.

This place is kinda meh.
The hookah was overpriced (I hardly doubt sticking an apple on a hookah calls for a $ 5 charge) and the wait staff consists of pretty, bored girls.

Wanting to go to the hookah closer to my house, the one on Canal right across the street from the Mortuary, but the reviews of that place are so terrible i didn’t want to take a shot on weather or not they were on their game that night. So my friend suggested this place and i had no idea this place was now a hookah joint.
We step in, and i’m spotted by the bartender who i just so happen to know, two surprises in one night! She suggests that we are well taken care of to a server (who was not ours) but i appreciated the effort.
We were well taken care of actually, but not too much from our server. The bartender took better care of us, in fact. While our server wasn’t being a ‘hole’, she was quite polite, but hardly anywhere to be found whenever we needed something. Each time we asked for something, we got it, but we could kiss her goodbye for at least another twenty minutes.
The place is a lot bigger than what meets the eye. I did not explore downstairs, but upstairs has plenty of seating, and a separate room off to the side of the second-​floor bar that seems good for private parties, but i’m not sure if it is exclusively for them or not.
The Hummus and Pita were good, my friend had some type of gyro that she devoured! Something about me with hookahs, i can only enjoy them for about ten minutes. After that, i start to get headaches and this funny feeling in my belly. I’ve only had one hookah from a friend’s house i’ve been to who smokes and whatever type of tobacco he uses, i feel like i can smoke that all day!
Beware of the bench-​seating along the walls tho, the cushions are not soft, at all. It feels like you’re sitting on a board that does not give what-​so-​ever.
I’ll give this place another shot tho, it helps to have good company to take your mind off of some of the shortcomings, but all-​in-​all, it’s a pretty ok spot.

The hostess was nice and our waiter was super friendly. We ended up just getting a beer and some hookah. The hookah-​stoker (guy coming around with the coals and lighting the hookahs) was very friendly as well.
I want to give this place 4 stars, but the service was pretty slow and we sat under a leaky air vent, so it felt like time was measured in water drops. But the music was pretty sweet because it was a playlist of catchy hip hop, some top 40, and some Mediterranean sounding tunes too, so I’d probably give this place a 3.5, of possible.
We mixed our hookah flavors and got berry-​mint with lemon-​mint and it was delicioussss.
I could see myself going back for another visit.

Few of my friends and I stumbled upon this place whilst trying to visit Tasting Room next door. Tasting Room was closed and a nice young lady outside said The Hookah Café served wine and such if we were looking for that. We winged it and went inside.
Since we’re here why not try the Hookah? The server said a hookah only covers two smokers and if all four of us would be smoking we needed to order two. Uh, why? We said no and only got 1 hookah. Opted for the pineapple head with a watermelon flavor. ($ 24.99) It was good. Three of us utilized that 1 hookah and it was fine. Were they trying to hustle us? Hmm.
No cocktail menu. A handful of spirits. Drinks were light. Probably won’t be back.

Tonight was my first time there and I enjoyed myself– Great service & great music
Watermelon & Mint flavor hookah w a pineapple fruit head