What Can You Expect at a Hookah Lounge Today?
Gone are the days when a hookah lounge was a foreign thing to so many people. Not foreign for its roots in eastern culture, but for the fact that many just didn’t understand the experience of it all. Your first time at a hookah lounge may seem a bit strange or even overwhelming when you see a tower of metal coming out and being set on the table.
Hookah, and the whole experience of it, is really an art form past down from centuries ago as an instrument used to support social gathering and promote great conversation among family and friends. What is it like today? Is it simply a place to go to smoke and hang with your friends? Is it a place where those unfamiliar with the custom should feel out of place? Is it something that can be incorporated in fine dining atmospheres? Does the tradition live on? In short, any option is possible in the ever growing landscape of hookah lounges that continue to open up throughout the country and open their doors to both new and experienced hookah smokers.
Eat, Drink & Smoke Hookah
Like with any sort of social activity these days, there’s an inventiveness and ingenuity around the entire experience at a hookah lounge. Some cultures social gather over drinks or food and others do this over hookah. Today, many lounges including us cater to all three blending the old with the new and creating an ambiance and a mood that is welcoming to everyone!
There are quite a few hookah options to think about when visiting your favorite lounge, each one of them changes your experience, making every visit unique and different. Some of these options include:
- What flavor tobacco, many lounges offer unlimited flavor combinations
- Enhancing your hookah with different types of liquid and/or ice to the hookah base
- Adding a Heat Management Device to help make it easier to enjoy the perfect bowl
- You can even, add a fruit head to your hookah!
Traditionalists like to see their hookah served in a ceramic head, and at Azuza, we will continue to honor that tradition. Modernization and creativity is also welcomed in most aspects of business and one of the creative touches in the world of hookah is to serve your guests their tobacco in a fruit head!
You might be asking yourself, what in the heck is a fruit head?! They’re exactly what they sound like. Instead of using a traditional ceramic bowl at the top of the hookah pipe, many hookah lounges, like ours, offer fresh fruit heads as an option. We cut the fruit into the shape of a hookah bowl, then fill that fruit bowl with shisha tobacco and place it on your hookah pipe in lieu of a normal hookah head.
By using a fruit head, we’re bringing an extra jolt of fruit flavor to your hookah experience. When the juices of the fruit mix with the shisha tobacco as you smoke it, you’re taken to a new level of flavor. At least we think so! Not only are you smoking shisha tobacco from a bowl made of fruit, but as long as we cut the fruit to function like a bowl, we take pride in creating something that is visually stunning, a piece of art if you will. We regularly notice the flashes from the cameras after these unique fruit heads arrive at the tables and are happy to see that these pictures frequently end up on social media as our guests show them off to their network of friends. With a little imagination and an open mind to creativity, the possibilities are endless.
Not sure where to start?
Our hookah masters to guide you through the entire experience. Whether you are brand new to hookah or experienced, we encourage you to visit us at Azuza Hookah Lounge where our hookah masters can make recommendations to make sure you enjoy a world class hookah experience!