Mary’s Place Café II (5982 Spring Garden Road) is smoking! Well, hookah, that is.
The downtown Middle Eastern restaurant now offers hookah from 7pm until midnight every night and there’s a new menu for hookah hours, which includes falafel wraps, chicken shawarma and dips like hummus, baba ghanoush and more. To smoke a hookah, it’s 10 dollars and after that, it’s only five to “change a head” (to refill the shisha, essentially). All you have to do is order some food, even if it’s just an appetizer, pick your flavour and start inhaling. The flavours available currently are double apple, grape, guava, cherry, mango and even more.
And the fun doesn’t stop there; Mary’s also has backgammon and card games to entertain during hookah hours.
This article appears in May 23-29, 2013.
So let me get this straight. You can’t smoke cigarettes, cigars or pipes in a restaurant or bar – but hookahs are okay? Seriously, I don’t know enough about the current legislation or the physics of a water pipe so I’d appreciate somer information.
As for the party games, do they include “Pin the War Crimes Indictment on the Portrait of Assad?