Greetings to all owners and managers of shisha lounges! Today I would like to talk about hookah cocktails and get your opinion on this matter.I would like to immediately make out the point that in a hookah, the taste sensations are very strongly influenced by the taste of tobacco aromas, which ones you will use in the bowl and in what proportions. But I’m also sure that when smoking, everyone…

Hi, I’m  Dan, and I’ve been passionate about hookahs for 18 years. Over this time, I’ve tried various types of tobacco, hookah setups, and visited lounges in different countries. My portfolio includes the following projects: “Puffing Rabbit” (Moscow, 2014–2016): I managed the lounge entirely, including staff supervision, purchasing equipment and tobacco, and promoting the business on social media. One major challenge was navigating new tobacco advertising regulations, but I successfully maintained stable…

Greetings to all owners and managers of shisha lounges! The hookah industry is quite young by the standards of bar and kitchen culture. A lot of things are borrowed and taken from these two directions. The location of the hookah kitchen in the lounges was not spared. Bar Savoy Restaurant MarcellisI wanted to discuss with you an important thing in hookah establishments, such as the place where the hookah is…

Greetings to all owners and managers of shisha lounges! Have you ever heard about a thing called “index”? For example “Body Mass index” – a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person, this BMA index help to understand weather your mass is okay for you compare to your height. I have an idea to create some specific Index for shisha lounges.Lets call it Hookah Rent Index (HRI).I…

Hello everyone, this is Stan Medkov, founder of HookahBattle. As you may know, we do many different online and offline events, in which representatives of many countries participate. We travel around the world and know many managers of hookah lounges, and we would like to talk to them in this post.You may have heard of or even taken part in our annual online show, where hookah lounges compete for the best…

Hi Taku, my traditional question – when, how and why did you start your hookah business? Please tell your story I first started smoking hookah during my university days, around 7 or 8 years ago. At that time, hookah was not yet widely popular in Japan, but I was invited by a university senior to try it. ・I found the experience enjoyable and I soon began exploring how to prepare…

Not long ago I faced with some wonderful thing – a google based map of all hookah related locations in Japan: I’ve been so impressed about it: cant imagine how someone collected so big amount of data into the one place. And Im happy to say, that I’ve got in contact with the creator of this map. Let me introduce you GaBa:Hello GaBa! Ive been really impressed with your hookah…

The story for our Spring 2023 contest of #LoungeFAILIn 2014 me and my former partner (from Nargilia lounges) Boris travelled to Egypt to organize for the very first time Hookah Battle championship in Cairo In one day the news about the first international hookah competition in Egypt became viral and Egypt ministry of health himself cancelled our event (if you would like me to post the full story about it, let…

You may know that one of our hookahbattle shareholders Oleg Knyaginin (since 2006) run a specific project in St. Petersburg – hookah meetups (every week hookah community visit random hookah lounge and eveluate it)It was really interesting for me to find out that there someone who make a similar thing in.. Dubai. Let me introduce you to Subul sheesha.queen’ Hello Subul, many people know you as shisha queen. Can you please tell…

Visitors to the Art Hookah Family network will be able to try “Mixes with story”Hookah Battle has been hosting the “Mix And Stories” show for several years, where hookah masters from all over the world create hookah mixes and videos that convey the atmosphere of their native land.As part of the collaboration with Hookah Battle, visitors to the Art Hookah Family lounge chain can now order a mix from a…