Hookah lounges are relaxing places where you and your friends can relax & meet new people. Find great hookah lounges around Buffalo Niagara.

by Max Fisher

Explore Buffalo Niagara’s hookah lounges

Why Hooka?

Late nights with nothing to do can be the worst. What is this early 2000s movie about 20-somethings complaining about how directionless they feel? If you’ve experienced the humdrum of the experience described, why not break this aggressively boring cycle and go to a hookah lounge? Because if you’re interested, Buffalo Niagara has some great hookah lounges that’ll have you and your friends patting yourselves on the back for finding a great way to spice up your usual smoke session (or hitting yourselves in the face for not thinking of going to a hookah lounge sooner, but that’s only for those of us with a bit of a masochistic streak). So how about we get onto all the good things hookah lounges have to offer?

A hookah lounge is an establishment where patrons share shisha (which is flavored tobacco) from a communal hookah or from one placed at each table or a bar. In some parts of the world, it’s a practice that people have been doing for centuries.

A Communal Experience

When you go to a hookah lounge, whether by yourself or in a group, it’s about the communal aspect of the experience. You don’t go into a hookah lounge to be Mr. or Mrs. anti-social (I heard to renew their vows. They just stared blankly at each other for 5 minutes without saying a word, it made everyone in attendance super uncomfortable). You go in there to soak up the calming atmosphere and interact with people by sharing shisha/hookah. If you want, you can hog the hookah for yourself. Still, I’m telling you if you’re that committed to the anti-social club, you’ll be missing out on one of the truly great things hookah lounges have to offer, which is allowing you to meet and interact with new people.

Sahara Hookah Lounge

When I’m in the mood for some hookah, I like to go to the Sahara Hookah Lounge because, first off, it gives off a Middle Eastern flair that makes me feel as if I’m in a genuine hookah lounge of old. In a weird way, the atmosphere seems authentic (keep in mind, however, that I’ve never been to the Middle East, nor have I any idea of what a “hookah lounge of old looks or feels like except for the definition I gave at the beginning of the piece. So take what I’m saying with a decent amount of salt. Not enough to make you thirsty, but enough to make you question and maybe do a bit of research on your own if you’re interested). You sit in these leather booths and just hang out as calm music flows over you. You can get these fruit-tinged drinks, pick your desired flavor, of which there are many, and you just proceed to relax.

Tobacco isn’t usually thought of as something that relaxes you. I’m no chemist, so I can’t give you a detailed breakdown of the differences between regular tobacco and shisha (I barely passed chemistry). Still, besides the flavors, which don’t make it taste like your smoking gravel peeled off of a dirt road, the shisha has a real calming effect. Perhaps it’s multiple things that result in this calming effect; the shisha, the music, the atmosphere, and the leather booth (to be honest, I don’t know if they’re really leather booths. I never took upholstery. All of the home economic classes were gone before I even entered first grade. So blame Ronald Regan for why my generation can’t cook more than instant oatmeal and tell the difference between real leather booths and cheap knockoffs. Maybe it’s just me?)

Whatever it is, every time I go in there, I’m always at ease, which makes me ready to talk to strangers after a few puffs. I’m far from a social butterfly, and I can’t quite say I become one even after a few puffs (maybe a social moth), still, I’m definitely more open to talking about whatever with whomever. Even if these relationships evaporate as soon as we head out the door, never to see each other again, at least we smoked some excellent, flavorful stuff. We had a good conversation, and in all honesty, what more can you ask for from a Friday or Saturday night?

Inside Hookah Chat

A Centuries-Old Ritual

Hookah lounges have been bonding people together through the use of shisha for centuries. Although you can’t expect the modern hookah lounge to be a respected meeting place for heads of state or prince and princesses like it once was, many, many years ago, the fundamentals are still the same. Hookah lounges are relaxing places where you and your friends can smoke and meet new people. Going to a hookah lounge might not change your life or make everything in your life magically click into place because you had some grape shisha, but it sure beats smoking in the park or smoking in your friend’s apartment for the umpteenth time.

Enjoy the hookah and remember don’t be anti-social; you’ll just be missing out.

Hooka Lounges in Buffalo Niagara

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C-Zar Hookah

Buffalo

Cloud Shisha

Buffalo

Hookah Chat

Buffalo

Hookawanna

Lackawanna

Lit Hookah Lounge

Amherst

Plug Hookah Lounge

Buffalo

Ramsey’s Hookah Lounge

Buffalo

Sahara Hookah Lounge

Buffalo

Wicked Hookah Lounge

Buffalo

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