Sultana Cafe & Hookah Bar — Restaurant in Indianapolis

went in to celebrate my wife's birthday reserved a table for 8 over the phone and already had a table waiting for us on the day Ethan (if I remember correctly) was our server, and he was good....kept checking on us at regular intervals our orders Margarita pitchers : Huge.....8 people can easily have it, with an extra round each hummus : very good falafel apperizer : very good hookahs : excellent....we ordered double apple+mint and sex on the beach....both were amazing, and the server kept changing and cleaning the coals regularly entrees : chicken shawarma dinner : very good kabob combo dinner : excellent butter chicken dinner : not that great, but expected it to be that way since its not an indian place lamb kabob dinner : excellent portion size was good enough that we could share entrees without ordering a separate one for each

they have belly dancing performance every hour which is good

ambience : very good, good seating, good vibes music : perfect...not too loud like many hookah places which just keep blasting music...this was perfect....the volume would go up only when there would be belly dance performance...so thats acceptable

while we were leaving, the server came to know that it was my wife's bday....he got us a complimentary slice of their 5 layer chocolate cake....that cake was toooooooo good.... plus it was free so even better...but an excellent gesture......he even sang us the birthday song lol

and bonus....while we were leaving, he offered us a gyro wrap that someone had ordered but did not pick up for free :D...hahahhahaa so now we have some lunch too lol

overall an excellent place in Indy would definitely repeat for...

Do not tip at this establishment, they will add more on even if you tip over 50%. Very greedy and horrible at communication, half the staff have bad attitudes. I went in to celebrate my birthday last Sunday, November 3rd. A man at the door named Tetris was kind enough to let us in even tho it was an hour to close. He just said we had to “take care of him” since it was the end of the night. My tab was $40. I tipped him $20 in cash and $5 more on the tab. Once my tab updated on my bank account a few days later the establishment added a $12 tip to my card instead of the $5. When I called in to get it fixed I was told someone would contact me and help me. No one ever reached out. I reached back out today and was told that because i came in after midnight (doors are open til 3 make it make sense) SUPPOSEDLY there’s an auto gratuity, even though I ALREADY tipped 50%+. The auto gratuity was actually never explained to me or my table, we had one sober person and she doesn’t even remember this being mentioned. Had I known how greedy the establishment was I wouldn’t have tipped so well, but again I was just told to “take care” of our server, nothing more about gratuity. A $32 tip on a $40 tab and they’re saying it’s just “policy.”...

I’ve been here before and had a pretty good experience with my partner. I wanted to come back and bring a few of my friends to try it out and it was a disappointing experience. We had to wait in line for a table which is absolutely no problem, it was a busy Saturday night. There were a couple empty tables available that had yet to be cleared off. We were waiting for about 10 minutes, in the way because there wasn’t much space to wait, before any of the staff acknowledged us. Once someone did she was really great about getting a table cleared off for us but before she could even wipe the table down a couple that walked in behind our group jumped us in line and took the only large table available for my party. The server didn’t even acknowledge this and still took their order and said nothing. We were then told that we’re were in the way and needed to move, so we went ahead and left. It was super disappointing because I was really looking forward to show my friends my favorite hookah bar but after this service experience I will not...