The MetroWest Daily News reports Narges Anbardar thinks the former cloth mecca in downtown Framingham would hit the spot for smokin' young folks desperately looking for a place to go to relax, suck nicotine through a water pipe and listen to music.
So if I want to go smoke in a bar please point me to the best places in Boston to do so. I know of one cigar bar in the city and have heard of one hookah bar as well. If there are a bunch I am curious as to where they are.
Not much, but then again they're specialty bars. I'm not a regular smoker, but it's fun to sometimes enjoy a hookah or cigar with friends over a few drinks as something different.
hopefully the boards will stop this nonsense about closing them.
Sheesha Lounge on Cambridge Street and Nile Lounge on Brighton Avenue. Also I know of at least two cigar bars (Cigar Masters and Stanza dei Sigari). Of course it's all moot in nine years. Thanks, BPHC! :-/
According to the Public Health Commission when they enacted the moratorium on new cigar and hookah bars/lounges, there were 11 total: 6 cigar, 5 hookah. I can name 3 cigar and 4 hookah.
For cigars, there's Stanza dei Sigari next door to Cafe Vittoria on Hanover St in the North End. Cigar Masters across from Lord & Taylors on Boylston in Back Bay. Churchill's Lounge on North St across from the horse carriages at Faneuil Hall.
As far as hookah bars, there's Nile Lounge in Allston on Brighton Ave a block or two east of the new Shabu Zen. The Casbah Lounge inside of Tangierino in Charlestown near Bunker Hill. Habibi's Lounge is under the Tedeschi's at Harvard and Comm Ave in Allston. I also heard there's a new one called Sheesha Lounge on Cambridge St in Allston next door to Cafe Brazil, but I just learned about that looking for Habibi's info. Most of the hookah bars opened *really* recently (like right before the moratorium) whereas some of the cigar bars have more history.
Smoke'em if you've got'em though. In 9 more years the current ruling by the Health Commission orders them closed or they have to petition for another, final, 10 year grace period.
There was another article that they did a search and it was revealed that this con artist , Narges Anbardar, never attended Harvard. Turns out she keeps walking around and telling everybody that she went to Harvard, but she is lying. There are other accounts that she has scammed some people in other ways as well.
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Her logic
If you can't beat them, turn a profit.
Way to go, doc.
If we allow hooka we should
If we allow hooka we should be able to allow cigar and cigarette bars as well. I do not like any of it but fair is fair.
Other way around
Cigarette and cigar bars already exist. It's hookahs (and their link to pot culture) that often have the harder time getting approvals.
So if I want to go smoke in
So if I want to go smoke in a bar please point me to the best places in Boston to do so. I know of one cigar bar in the city and have heard of one hookah bar as well. If there are a bunch I am curious as to where they are.
Here ya go There's also a
Here ya go
There's also a cigar bar on Boylston.
Not much, but then again they're specialty bars. I'm not a regular smoker, but it's fun to sometimes enjoy a hookah or cigar with friends over a few drinks as something different.
hopefully the boards will stop this nonsense about closing them.
Hookah/cigar bars
There are 3 hookah bars in Allston. Nile on Brighton Ave, Sheesha on Cambridge Street and another one on Comm Ave, near Harvard Ave.
Two hookah bars in Allston.
Sheesha Lounge on Cambridge Street and Nile Lounge on Brighton Avenue. Also I know of at least two cigar bars (Cigar Masters and Stanza dei Sigari). Of course it's all moot in nine years. Thanks, BPHC! :-/
Cigar bars/hookah bars
According to the Public Health Commission when they enacted the moratorium on new cigar and hookah bars/lounges, there were 11 total: 6 cigar, 5 hookah. I can name 3 cigar and 4 hookah.
For cigars, there's Stanza dei Sigari next door to Cafe Vittoria on Hanover St in the North End. Cigar Masters across from Lord & Taylors on Boylston in Back Bay. Churchill's Lounge on North St across from the horse carriages at Faneuil Hall.
As far as hookah bars, there's Nile Lounge in Allston on Brighton Ave a block or two east of the new Shabu Zen. The Casbah Lounge inside of Tangierino in Charlestown near Bunker Hill. Habibi's Lounge is under the Tedeschi's at Harvard and Comm Ave in Allston. I also heard there's a new one called Sheesha Lounge on Cambridge St in Allston next door to Cafe Brazil, but I just learned about that looking for Habibi's info. Most of the hookah bars opened *really* recently (like right before the moratorium) whereas some of the cigar bars have more history.
Smoke'em if you've got'em though. In 9 more years the current ruling by the Health Commission orders them closed or they have to petition for another, final, 10 year grace period.
There was another article
There was another article that they did a search and it was revealed that this con artist , Narges Anbardar, never attended Harvard. Turns out she keeps walking around and telling everybody that she went to Harvard, but she is lying. There are other accounts that she has scammed some people in other ways as well.
Headline:
Attack of the Return of Fleeting Fads from Five Years Ago.
we should allow all three.
we should allow all three. If you do not like them don't go, simple as that.
The boston health commission is (has? it was sometime last year) moving to ban cigar bars.
So hypocritical coming from a city that once stood for personal liberty.
(not directed at anyone here)
That's not all the city once stood for
"So hypocritical coming from a city that once stood for personal liberty."
Well, we gave up resisting Taxation Without Representation long ago, so nobody should be surprised.
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who and the what now?
Hookah
That sort of has another meaning in Massachusetts, doesn't it? :) I totally thought it meant the OTHER kind of hookah bah.