After dinner at Soho, a friend brought up that we hadn't been to a shisha bar in a while, and that we could have maybe a round or two of shisha tonight. So we walked down to LKF to Beirut, a middle eastern bar and restaurant that, with its prime location on D'aguilar street, you will no doubt have walked (stumbled?) past several times if you've been to LKF.
It was around 9:30 and Beirut was pretty full. From the outside, it didn't look like there was a vacant table in sight, but we were brought in anyway to the bar table. We decided to go for the strawberry shisha, and were glad to know that there's no additional charge for coal refills. We ordered some drinks as well - I decided to go with a good old-fashioned mojito.
The shisha here is not extremely potent, but it's not weak to the point of being nothing. The shisha definitely had a fruity flavor to it, but it didn't taste distinctively like it was strawberry. It just kind of tasted like fruit in general, though that seems to be the case for most of the shisha that I have tried. My mojito was very minty and refreshing, and I liked that it had a pretty strong lime taste. It was just the right amount of potent too.
One thing that bothered me about Beirut, or rather, about where we were sitting, was that it made talking to each other really hard. It was a bar table so we were sitting next to each other. There were five of us in total, and since I was sitting on the very right, I really could only talk to the friend next to me. It made conversation across all five of us impossible and I wish we had been given a table instead (though to be fair, none were available at the time we came). If it was just you and a friend here, the bar table is fine, but any number upwards of two, I wouldn't recommend getting a seat at the bar table.
I had a look at the food menu and it seemed pretty good - it was classic middle eastern and everything looked pretty appetizing. We were too full to eat by then though, but I would love to swing by for lunch sometime. read more
