Amazing atmosphere and experience. I would go here again for a night out. The view is nice and…read moredrinks are good.

The hookah here is amazing! The best I've had in Hong Kong and I've tried a few places…read more More Bonus: they play Bruce Lee movies on a projector. Have baby sharks in a tank. And they have an awesome view of Hong Kong's skyline.

Alhambra is one of my favourite shisha spots in Lan Kwai Fong. It's got a very cool, eclectic…read moreambience and great affordability in the middle of the one of the busiest places in Hong Kong. In terms of location, it sits between China Bar and Volar - you have to go into the building between the two and head up to the fourth floor. There's a Japanese restaurant and two shisha bars - Vibes and Alhambra. Vibes is a decent place to go to as well, but a bit pricier, and is more club that 'bar' if you ask me. Alhambra has an open terrace for either a smoke or a breath of fresh air, which is good for someone like me who absolutely hates hiking down just to have a cigarette or beat the claustrophobic crowd. You can also sit your shisha out there too, and listen to all the #WhiteGirlWasted mayhem that goes on below. I went with my friends during happy hour, so a beer was about $40 - very reasonable when you then consider that a round of shisha is $275. My personal choice to accompany shisha, if you're not looking for a raging night out after, is mint tea, and they do it justice here. The place does get busy at night however, so although it's a great place for after-work drinks, be wary of getting there early if you want to shisha before hitting the clubs. I would say getting there around 9pm with a small group of friends should suffice if trying to get a nice table.

This was my first time at Awtar, and probably will be my last. I have heard friends rave about…read moreAwtar, but tonight just didn't cut it for me. I seldom hookah, maybe once a year at most? So I'm not an expert, but I would have certain expectations about the service and environment at Awtar. If possible, I would give them 0 stars, and here are the reasons why. 1. Smoking indoors WITHOUT ANY ventilation whatsoever. No windows in the upstairs Staunton Street indoor seating area were open. None. I felt like I was suffocating. Lung cancer right there. If they had proper ventilation, I would give them an extra star. But nope. 2. Every time someone lit those fiery "candles" paired with a bottle of champagne, it released a very toxic gas. I don't know what gas, but it did not smell good and clogged up my lungs. I wasn't smelling the shisha smoke, I was smelling this whoknowswhat toxic fume from a lighter. I swear, shouldn't there be some regulation for indoor air quality for hookah venues? There is seating outdoors, which might be a little better. But still... 3. Bathrooms were filthy. Ladies room downstairs, men's room upstairs. The floor was so wet, covered in water - it's like someone decided to wash the floor or pee on it? I don't know. Come on Awtar. As for the mens restroom, every time some did a #2, the table sitting next to the men's restroom could smell it. Not pleasant at all. Would you want to smell someone else's business while taking a smoke? I don't think so. I'll end this review with one positive - for the one star, and that is, the blueberry mint shisha is a good solid flavor. Otherwise, if you don't want to get lung cancer, STAY AWAY!

Absolutely love this place. Drinks are good and the they have a variety of flavours for hookah…read morewhich comes with an ice pipe, making the whole smoking experience to the next level. Great place to go on a Friday night or weekend to chill with friends. For those who doesn't know what hookah is, it is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis or hashish, whose vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin--often glass-based.

Could never imagine people would line up for shisha nowadays. Could never expect an actual…read morepineapple on the shish pot for a pineapple shisha. Could never understand how shisha could be such a hip thing - until Kevin brought us here. So it's not only gimmick. Besides the glowing shisha pot which changes colors, the menu is impressive. There are a lot of choices and most of them are new to me. And there are a lot of cocktails which are all excellent match with shisha. We have ordered the VLT pitcher and the pineapple shisha - tropical and fruity. The shisha is indeed very good - smelt and tasted so organic and fresh from the fruit. The vibe is excellent, packed with hipsters and everyone is chilled and happy. We really had a great Friday night here. :)

BEST. SHISHA. IN. TOWN. Hands down…read more Coming from LA, Boba Bear carries some heavy expectation when it lands on Elgin Street. You probably won't notice it when you walk past, as it keeps a minimalistic design, but you will spot it from the beginning of the street from 8pm, seeing a long queue waiting for seats. Now first, know about the house rules. No reservations but you leave your name and phone number to get call when seats are available. All people in your party have to be present, or you won't get seated. And after you get seated, you cannot add more people in your table. It is some sort of some kind of cheat-proof mechanism, and is much needed for a shisha bar. After all you can't really have an accurate estimate of people staying around. So observing these rules seem like the only practical way to keep things simple and keep things running. We planned ahead quite a few times, and it finally worked out as we pulled an early night sitting in at 8:30pm. Funny we ran into a couple of friends after 9pm and they were way behind a long queue and waited for 2 hours to get a call. The hype is real man. Shisha. They have the most choices of favors I have seen in Hong Kong, maybe on par with Vibes. You have the choice of an art hookah or a usual hookah, which is more or less about a fancy glowing light underneath the pipe. People love it though, so can't really complain at all. We got pineapple mint, and it lasted almost 3 hours. The coconut charcoal was quite unique - it burned slower but smoother, so it didn't give the "choky" feeling when the charcoal burned out. The shisha took a few of us quite lightheaded, and to be fair we were all quite "experienced" shisha smokers, so it was a pleasant surprise. Drinks tasted well, and, as an after-fact, were surprisingly strong. Quite a few of them were milk-based cocktails (but we didn't order), which I suspected it had to do with mixing well with the shisha. One minor nitpicking was that the servers were quite actively asking if we needed more drinks. We were drinking at quite a pace already, but I guess pushing for buying more drinks was the only way to break-even. Lastly - try the instant Instagram / Twitter feed upload, pics and tweets will show up at their TV immediately.

After dinner at Soho, a friend brought up that we hadn't been to a shisha bar in a while, and that…read morewe 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.

This is a regular bar for me and my friends. It has gone through a change in cuisine, and now has…read moregone from middle eastern food to Italian. It is still a great place to hang out and get a drink post dinner. There's hookah available too!

I really like this place! I'm not sure if it's because every…read moretime I've been it's after a very busy day of meetings, and I know once I get there it means I get to rest a little, or if it's because of the open air, comfortable lounging feel Vibes gives as soon as you walk towards it. This is a very relaxing, informal atmosphere. It's located on the 5th floor of the Mira Hotel. Sofas and comfortable chairs, accompanied by low tables, metal lotus flower, and bamboo stocks, give a calming vibe to everyone there. The drinks are strong, delicious and refreshing. Appetizers are really good, we love the French fries. I know, you may think "you can get French fries anywhere" but these are excellent. The Quesadillas are good too. If you are looking for a more lively night, go Wednesday - Saturday when they have a live DJ, and Thursday is Arabic Night with belly dancers. They also have a hookah bar, and since it's "al fresco" the smoke doesn't really bother any other of the guests. During the day is a nice place to relax but, at night it's fun, upbeat, and great spot to meet people for a "pre-game" drink or two.

I don't get the great reviews this bar gets. Stuck in a courtyard of the Mira Hotel, Vibes has…read morecool lighting, silly drinks, and a goofy clientele. There was no sit down bar really, and the seating was okay for a barbecue. Vibes was nothing special.

Terrible shisha bar. There is absolutely no service here and the shisha sucks. Equipment is old and…read morethey tried to tell us that we just didn't know shisha. Don't come here, lots more options to choose from.

Located on a busy dining street this place had seats available that were outside and we were sold…read more My colleague speaks Arabic and was from the same city as the host! They have a nice drink menu and the group of us decided to order the large sampler appetizer. It came with hummus which was very tasty, falafel, grilled kebabs which had great flavor and a few other dips. The pita bread was unique and very tasty for dipping! I would recommend if you are looking for another dining option in Hong Kong besides the typical Asian cuisine.

This is a crazy spot in LKF that does amazing cocktails but one of the things this place is famous…read morefor is their flaming cocktails that involve a fire extinguisher and a heck of a lot of alcohol and staff theatrics! The indoor area gets a bit crowded so if you want a bit more space they have a lovely little balcony area which gives you a great spot to relax with friends. The spot is a bit tough to find, but it's worth a trip even if it's to watch people drink the flaming cocktails!

is this place on a Hong Kong Cosmo list that you should bring all your gal pals to? i was 1 of the…read moreonly 2 guys in this whole 500 sq ft place? the music is painfully basic (probably Today's Top Hits on Spotify) and the drinks are overpriced for how much alcohol they probably put in - barely felt anything afterwards. that's not a flex i'm actually pretty lightweight these days. i'm no scientist but that can only mean their drinks are literally 80% water. absolute ripoff which is a shame really because their namesake is doing pretty dope things for private space flight. i cracked up walking in this place because the waitresses ask everyone once they enter (literally sweating out Lake Tahoe) - do you want to be seated indoors or outdoors? it's 95+ degrees in Hong Kong, what do you think?