Habibi Cafe — Restaurant in Waitematā

READ THIS! So lastnight I had a pretty good night and then we decided to have some shisha and chill to end it. We decided to come here despite not knowing if it would be open of not. However they were open, its been the second time iv gone but the first time I was kind of in and out (I left early) but lastnight my partner Alex and I went up and ordered two shishas and ultimately ordered the strawberry tea (I think) we were served by the owner and he was the loveliest man! He spoke to us calmly and was interested in what we had to say, he answered all our questions as we were interested and told us the meaning of Habibi and habibti 😊 I complimented the layout of his store and how it's always clean and packed. The hookahs on display are so beautiful! He's a great man to talk to and obviously shows alot of pride and hard work into his business and I'm honestly shocked the rating is this low. I smoke shisha alot and I just have to say, that that is the best tasting smoothest shisha I have every had in my life! We finished both of them, but tbh I could've had two to myself, I didn't feel yuck after I felt amazing!! AFKNMAZING

Please appreciate and acknowledge the effort put into this place, this was my first PROPER time actually staying and doing it. I'll be back every week for sure! Omg!

The owner's name is Aram (I think sorry its been a sleepy day haha) but anyways acknowledge him! It's a great very inviting store Oh and the tea BLEW me away usually I just get normal tea, but I picked a raspberry one I think, and wow never tasted something like that before and I'm living for it! Here's a pic of me remembering the name so I can review it and also how happy my partner and I...

Went there last night to meet up with some mates. They had waited a half hour for us as we were having dinner on K road. When we got there, their shisha still hadn't come out. The place was pretty packed, we sat down and said hi. Only about 3 minutes after we'd sat down, one of the guys came out and started yelling at our guy mates. Saying he had to pay 15 more because we were taking up seats that it didn't matter if we were smoking or not he had to pay more. He acted as if he wasn't expecting more of us when my mate had told him there would be seven of us. I said yeah that's fine I was going to order some shisha just give us a bit of time. He kept ranting on about the seats and told us we had to pay right then and there. I got up and paid. Altogether we paid $65.00 for ONE shisha. I think I may have had 4 puffs of it and I paid $15.00. This guy was rude and harassed us only moments after we got there and the shisha wasn't that great. Won't ever be coming back, I'd rather go to the Lebanese Café or smoke at home where I won't...

We wanted to enjoy our first night of 2022 here as we regularly visit. The most disgusting experience we have ever had. I don't know if the Cafe is under New management, but the staff from the very start were ridiculously rude. The checkout operator was a tall lad with curly hair - he treated our group so badly. Didn't have shisha flavors available and then when asked why we were being charged so much ( 2x shishas and a bottle of water = $106) he responded by saying that public holiday surcharge rule was decided by the government, not him. Both our shisha flavours were not up to the Habibi standard at all. We weren't asked to show our vaccine passes either which is obviously not compliant with the government rules. We were there for about 20 mins and our shisha flavours had already burnt out. Being regulars for almost 7 years, I don't think we will...