Mystic Water Kava Bar

Having never tried kava, I heard about it and went in with my friend. We ordered a bowl (5 servings) and split it. Ewww. We didn't feel any of the effects so we ordered a strawberry honey flavored kava, and that was surprisingly good. Although I still didn't feel it when I left, apparently it takes a while to feel the effects. Either way, the place was very relaxed and I loooved the décor. The prices, although a little steep for me, were my only real qualm. Overall, it was a fun experience. The woman bar-tender was very friendly and the male was... a character. :) Anyways, they had some really cool live music and I would love to come back just for the ambience.

I had an amazing first experience here last night. It's like entering a tropical lounge, with terrific lighting, art, Buddhas and murals, and a beautiful tree anchoring the middle. The band playing that night was a phenomenal trance-like sound creator Seven D. Kava, does not taste good. However, you should drink it like a shot (not tea) and then enjoy as it relaxes you and eases you into an all-is-good vibe.

After passing this place many  times, it  finally peaked my interest and I decided to check it out one night. After I entered  this place, I  looked around and felt like I was in Yoda's lair in the Dagobah  system. The interior of this place is kind of like  a cross between hippy heaven and a weed smokers paradise lodged in Rivendell. After I regained mental composure from my senses being bombarded by the interior design, I noticed there was no music playing or entertainment. The dude behind the counter did inform me they usually have live bands or performances or music playing. But there was some entertainment, there was a  small group of weirdo's having an odd  very  loud conversation.

So I  chose a seat at the "bar" and I asked if they honor "Yelp" check in specials, and the dude said "No". I was like Ok.. interesting. So i guess this dude did not know about the Yelp Check-in specials they listed, or they are using Yelp check-in specials to lure people to their business.Instead of walking out I decided to order one  of those Kava drink things, by the way it is the only thing they sell  to drink. After asking for "one shell" (the lingua used to order a shot of kava) the dude pulled out a Zephyrhills plastic bottle from under the counter filled with some kind of sandy brown liquid, and poured about 3 table spoons into a halved coconut shell and handed it to me. I was kind of turned off about how they maintain and serve this drink, I mean at least have a dispensing machine or have it in a  more appropriate container on  a counter or something.
 
The kava tasted like chalky forest dirt, on my tongue it felt like liquid sand. It took me  about 30 minutes to drink all of it. It was hard drinking this stuff, it was  like drinking medicine my parents forced on me when I was a kid.

While I was forcing myself to drink this hellish yet expensive drink I could not help but over hear the odd loud conversation of the weirdo's beside me. There was a skinny hippyish  loud annoying  girl who said that right after she drank a shot of kava, "she felt her "Third -eye" had opened".

OK so I am confused here, Daoist monks go to Maoshan mountain, to practice inner meditation for years living off of water, vegetables and fruit while practicing arcane inner and outer martial arts.  Using their minds to transform Qi into higher vibrating forms of energy, which then finally reveals the splendor of the Golden Flower to them. There by transforming them from  mortal into an immortal being. But this loud  profanity laced annoying fruit cake skinny hippy just drank a shot of some dirt tasting rubbish and her "Third-eye" just opened.......C'mon man... for crying out loud.... give me a god damned break man.

The one thing I did enjoy at this place outside of its creative interior is that they have many  excellent proverbial books and other books dispensing arcane knowledge you can read, while you are there.