Loved the chill atmosphere. Low couches on the ground, & dark with minimal lighting. Their hookahs last forever!! & never had a bad taste. Good music. Got hookah bubbles. The worker even brought us over an extra hookah for us to taste that flavor. 12.00$ for a hookah. Good music. Will be back soon!
Review Source:This is like the first hookah place i ever been 2 n it was pretty kool!...The vibe was very chill n relaxing!...And the service was good 2 i guess though there was one time we got a rude server but the manager was kool....And almost everytime i go there they always have like micheal jackson music playing!...Lol it definetly set the mood.
Review Source:The interior was really cute- dim with black lights, cushions on the floor, drapy fabrics. The clientele/staff seems to be completely North Park University Students. The ambience would have been perfect except it really would have benefited from some MELLOW music instead of Korn and "Smooth Criminal" blasting from a computer. Our waitress was a sweetie and the rose shisha was really nice, and decently priced at $10 for 2 people. I would have paid extra to hear some middle eastern music though.
Review Source:North Park was awesome!
I went with a friend of mine and we both agreed that North Park awesome customer service.
They would check up on us to make sure everything was going good.
The hookah was good, we tend to try new hookah flavors everytime we go to a hookah bar. So we were happy on that. The music was good and the design of the area was cool. The seating was different from what we were normally use to but a change is always good. The lights were interesting which I liked.
I say to try this place out!
Oh and I say try the "The Dark Knight" hookah =]
I first visited this place some years ago, when they used to treat you to the sweet-smelling hand potion, and the owner was actually around to socialize with the frequent patrons, such as myself. The music was always nice, chill, passive, and on topic (middle eastern). The black lights were a hit with the high school crowd, and the shoes off policy imbibed some cultural awareness in the average bubbled-in teenager. The place received some nice wall treatments, even some painting, and the hookahs were top of the line, as well as well maintained.
Fast-forward to today, the only people working the place are a handful of greenhorns who value time spent smoking with their buddies over serving the paying-customers. Granted, if you ask them for something, they'll do it, but it'd be nice to see some initiative every now and again. The music system is now everyone's personal player, so whoever is tight with these 'workers' (relative term since they mostly sit) gets to blast their blood-curling playlists whilst we try to enjoy some culturally loaded conversations over some now half-decent narghilea.
Yes, it does get cold inside in the wintertime. And yes, you do have to sit on the floor, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Oh my goodness, is all I can say, initially I was all excited as after checking the place out, a month or so ago, I went in with Luan N, asked a couple of Q's about how much and times of opening, I think the guy that I spoke to was either the manager or the owner, his name was Patt, he was helpful to be truthful, friendly, and told us to come back, he even gave us a card with a free hookah voucher on it...nice!!
Ok, so now came the visit to cash in the free hookah, ok this was the deal, there were 5 of us, and we ordered x3 Red bulls, the total came to a whopping $26 holy crap, thats some expensive red bull. According to the Staff, we were charged, $5per person and only x3 of us were charged, and the red bull was $3 per person, so total including tax it came to $26 with the discounted hookah...
I've been to a couple of hookah joints in Chicago, and this place takes the biscuit, and the tin and the shoes off my feet, it was just ridiculous. The hookah itself was oookkkay..nothing special, supposedly it was the house special called the "red line," a mix of raspberry, strawberry and cherry, to be honest I tasted a hint of strawberry and that was it. Not too impressed to be honest.
The staff were very friendly and helpful, the place was a little dark, with "black" light so a novel atmosphere and all you can see is glowing teeth and white clothes.
So...would I ever go back....I can comfortably say a big hell no, for the money and the atmosphere I would rather go somewhere else. Thanks NorthPark hookah, and no thanks..
Few months back on the way to Carthage Cafe, we stopped by to just check out the scene. Â The manager gave us a card for a free hookah on the next visit. Â
   We needed an hour to kill, so we decided to cash in on the voucher recently.  So they said the voucher was valid.  We didn't want to be total leechers so we ordered 3 red bulls and the one hookah for the five of us.  When we went to pay for our order, the tab was $26.  We did a double take because we thought we just had to pay for the drinks.  They charged us $9 for the red bulls, which is an acceptable mark up (although, I'm pretty sure the menu said $2/ red bull).  Then they claimed that the hookah was free ($9) and 2 people were credited ($10), so we had to pay $5 p/p for the other 3 guests. Â
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    So you're saying if we didn't have the voucher,  our tab would be something like $43 for one hookah!!!  That's total B.S.!!!
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   Some places like the House of Hookah require that there is a 3 person max/ hookah.  Which is totally fine because we would have at least got two hookahs for the same price at North Park.  What was even more unsettling was the hookah was horrible.  It was too heavy and harsh, with absolutely not a trace of fruit flavor.  I'm a pretty even keel guy, but that night  I just wanted to trash their $25 speaker system hidden behind the curtain.  When you listen to bose audio at home and have to listen to audio worse than my laptop for an hour, and then get underhanded, that would drive you mad too!
North Park Hookah was the first Hookah place I'd been too. I liked the laid-back atmosphere and that it was always small and intimate. The owner, Sam was always really friendly and personable. They had a lotion that you rubbed on your hands to accentuate the hookah flavors. The downside-it closed pretty early. In fact, I see the owner at this other hookah place after he's done. In winter it can get pretty cold, because you're sitting on the floor and whenever someone comes in a blast of cold air rushes at you and since you're not wearing shoes it just shoots through you. The early close time is my only real beef though, for a hookah bar anyway.
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