PLAYING Hookah Lounge Cafe — Restaurant in Xinyi District

Was seated downstairs despite asking otherwise, but glad that was the case. Awesome service, the downstairs bartender clearly loves his job, music had me pulling out my phone to Shazam every 5 minutes, and never needed to ask to change the coal as they're always on top of that! Drinks are pricy and waitresses can be a little quick to assume our pitcher was empty, or they'd just empty it in one of our cups in order to get the cleanup job done asap, but never being rude about it. Oh, and they also house the world's friendliest dog upstairs! Grade-A place for a night out...

This place is hard to find with almost no sign. It is behind a small garden on the corner of an alley. On the night we went (Saturday) there was a 500 cover charge and I don’t know if this is normal. The staff was very helpful and took us downstairs to the second bar as upstairs was full (we didn’t have a reservation). The downstairs bar is dimly lit with nice ambiance and a good overall atmosphere with chill music. The food is ok and drinks are not bad as far as price. The only reason for the 4 star is the price is a little high. Overall we...

The workers there were very rude and also intrusive. We tried to order something but we were turned down with a glare and rude "wait" as the workers were talking amongst themselves. Then when we were finally getting into in a lady kept coming over trying to sell us overpriced shots. The set up of the whole hookah lounge was disorganised, the workers were horrid and it was just not a good experience. Even the hookah itself was very light and not thick tasted like nothing - the vodka shots were also very...