Bars
Hookah Lounge |
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Hookah Lounge Details
- Hours: Monday - Thursday, 5 p.m.- 1 a.m.; Friday - Saturday, 5 p.m. - 3 a.m.
- Average drink price: $8.
- Payment info: Cash, all major credit cards.
- Parking: Free and located directly in front of the Lounge and Mediterranean Cafe. No valet.
- Occupancy: 45.
- Special events: No regular weekly events scheduled, but special parties are held occasionally.
Hookah Lounge Review
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8380 W. Sahara Ave. |
Easy there, Alice. Once you've spent an evening at the Hookah, the root of the Caterpillar's irritation should be made plain. Smoking flavored tobacco through a hookah is a profoundly relaxing way to spend an evening, and anyone who threatens to take you away from it fully deserves an upbraiding, both verbal and physical.
The Hookah Lounge is a gorgeous room -- dark, elegant and festooned with Mediterranean art collected by owner Paymon Raouf, a personable fellow who treats the Hookah like his own living room and everyone in it as a cherished friend. Drinks are somewhat expensive, probably to keep the boorish element of UNLV's student body to a minimum. Once you've taken a good snort of rose tobacco ("Quit bogarting that thing," my friend invariably complains), you'll likely forget what you paid for a round of the Hookah's best-in-town cosmopolitans. And you can order appetizers from the cafe's peerless Mediterranean menu -- stuffed grape leaves, hummus, babaganoush, the works.
The Hookah Lounge is an absolute must for anyone who savors new experiences, new tastes or just a quiet, mature night out. Uniqueness aside, it's the most tranquil lounge in Vegas -- quiet, exotic atmosphere in which close friends can become closer, seekers can discover a new pleasure and the inquisitive may seek advice from the Caterpillar.
-- Review by Geoff Carter
Hookah Lounge is the 2005 Las Vegas Weekly Readers' Choice for Place to Go on a Saturday Night When You Kinda Want to Go Out but Kinda Don't, and Las Vegas Life's 2004 Vegas 100 named Hookah Lounge Best Exotic Bar.
More info: Happy hour 5 - 7 p.m. daily, featuring half-priced drinks.

