Providence Byblos

by Mary S.

Best shwarma around.

by Amanda M.

This place is pretty cool. The hookahs are inexpensive if you're going with friends, and I love the cherry flavor. The staff won't rush you and it's a good place to relax.The guy who owns this place is opening a second location next to OPA on Atwells ave, so be excited. He bought the whole building, so I'm guessing he's going to kick out the tenants above and do the same thing he's doing at this location. I know all this because I am the old tenant that was right above and moved once I found out a hoookah lounge was being built underneath (and the constant hammering by the workaholics building the place at 1am sometimes was a little much). No offense, but I do like to sleep and not have my apt. smell like ethnic food. And a little security with keeping an apartment is cool too. So yeah, Hookah bar coming to Federal Hill, you heard it here.

by Angela M.Emily S.Stephanie B.Dorothy K.LU A.

One of my favorite places in Providence!The people here are incredibly nice, and the food is always authentic and delicious. I usually get the vegetarian quatro dish, which includes their to-die-for baba ganoush, incredible hummus, and madoura ( a rice and lentil side). I get it with vegetables and pickles instead of tabouli or fattoush. They are super accommodating to my weird food requests and smile even as I ask them to make me a falafel wrap with 2 falafels instead of 4, olives, extra pickles, baba ganoush AND hummus, and no onions.I think the prices are great, and I've heard their burgers are excellent as well.Healthy and great for late nights, I think they are open until 1 or 2 am for the most part.This review is strictly for the hookah lounge, not for the food.And I give it 5 stars because it's PROVIDENCE, people.  Hookah doesn't exist here outside of the lovely little hookah dens that we call our apartments.  And yes, doing it at home is way cheaper.  But if you want to get out of the house, you pay up.  And it's cheaper than in LA or NYC.  So cope with it.$18 for a regular flavor of hookah.  I believe you can combine two flavors for $25 but why bother.  One is enough.  I think it was $30 for premium hookah, which is the Al-Fakhar brand (the best in my opinion), but I'd rather do that at home since the whole box only costs me $12-15.  But for all you cheap folks: it's $25 per person (not per hookah) at Tangierino, and at least $20 plus extra for coals in Westwood, LA.They didn't charge us for extra coals, and the tubes/hookah was clean.  Super ventilation here.  They have food, but I had just come from dinner.Bottom line, this was the best place to be around Thayer Street/Brown on a Thursday night.  Wish it was here when I went to school.Only negative: no real mint tea.  It's out of a teabag, and it's not very good.We stopped in here on a Friday night after dinner for some hookah and were seated immediately. The environment is everything you expect from a hookah bar - cozy, pillow benches, great music, and the wait staff was very friendly and attentive. We spent $18 on our hookah, which is about what I've paid elsewhere. I will definitely stop back here next time I'm in Providence.I got a hummus-gyro wrap (comes with onions, pickles, lettuce), and it was filling, but nothing special. Honestly, I found it bland, lacking the key spices that make mediterranean food what it is.I didn't try the hookah, but I did have a delicious chicken shwarma. The cashiers do have a bit of attitude, but not in excess; the shop was too cold on the winter night that I visited.Pretty good.

by Carrie U.

I didn't head into the hookah lounge, so this review is purely on the food downstairs.The meat was very good (seasoned and moist), but the bread was stale. Also, it's a three because the tables were sticky and crumbs were everywhere. ...I don't like eating in places where roaches could possibly come out and take my food away at any moment.

by Becky M.

Had falafel, which is among my favorite foods, which wasn't fresh or hot and lacked flavor.  It was just heavy.  The salad was nothing but lettuce and I watched the server count out 4 tomato pieces to add.  The dressing did have nice space and flavor. Wouldn't try this place again.  It was inexpensive, but there's better places.

by Annette A.

I guess when you're the only hookah bar in town, you can charge crazy prices. $20 for a 1-flavor hookah seems like a hell of a lot. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a hookah master, but I really don't think a single serving of shisha and coal could possibly cost that much.The service was very nice, however. Two constantly checked on us to make sure our water glasses were full and we were happy.Other than the price, it's nice here. The place has great ambience and the music is pumping. I found it really odd, the music. When you're here, you are so relaxed and all you want to do is daze out, yet all that techno is calling to you.

by Angela M.Emily S.Stephanie B.

One of my favorite places in Providence!The people here are incredibly nice, and the food is always authentic and delicious. I usually get the vegetarian quatro dish, which includes their to-die-for baba ganoush, incredible hummus, and madoura ( a rice and lentil side). I get it with vegetables and pickles instead of tabouli or fattoush. They are super accommodating to my weird food requests and smile even as I ask them to make me a falafel wrap with 2 falafels instead of 4, olives, extra pickles, baba ganoush AND hummus, and no onions.I think the prices are great, and I've heard their burgers are excellent as well.Healthy and great for late nights, I think they are open until 1 or 2 am for the most part.This review is strictly for the hookah lounge, not for the food.And I give it 5 stars because it's PROVIDENCE, people.  Hookah doesn't exist here outside of the lovely little hookah dens that we call our apartments.  And yes, doing it at home is way cheaper.  But if you want to get out of the house, you pay up.  And it's cheaper than in LA or NYC.  So cope with it.$18 for a regular flavor of hookah.  I believe you can combine two flavors for $25 but why bother.  One is enough.  I think it was $30 for premium hookah, which is the Al-Fakhar brand (the best in my opinion), but I'd rather do that at home since the whole box only costs me $12-15.  But for all you cheap folks: it's $25 per person (not per hookah) at Tangierino, and at least $20 plus extra for coals in Westwood, LA.They didn't charge us for extra coals, and the tubes/hookah was clean.  Super ventilation here.  They have food, but I had just come from dinner.Bottom line, this was the best place to be around Thayer Street/Brown on a Thursday night.  Wish it was here when I went to school.Only negative: no real mint tea.  It's out of a teabag, and it's not very good.We stopped in here on a Friday night after dinner for some hookah and were seated immediately. The environment is everything you expect from a hookah bar - cozy, pillow benches, great music, and the wait staff was very friendly and attentive. We spent $18 on our hookah, which is about what I've paid elsewhere. I will definitely stop back here next time I'm in Providence.

by Angela M.

One of my favorite places in Providence!The people here are incredibly nice, and the food is always authentic and delicious. I usually get the vegetarian quatro dish, which includes their to-die-for baba ganoush, incredible hummus, and madoura ( a rice and lentil side). I get it with vegetables and pickles instead of tabouli or fattoush. They are super accommodating to my weird food requests and smile even as I ask them to make me a falafel wrap with 2 falafels instead of 4, olives, extra pickles, baba ganoush AND hummus, and no onions.I think the prices are great, and I've heard their burgers are excellent as well.Healthy and great for late nights, I think they are open until 1 or 2 am for the most part.

by Ryan D.

The food is great and the lounge is an incredible experience for anyone who's never been to a hookah lounge before. It's a little tight but there's plenty of room to be either sheltered amongst your own friends or conversing with other patrons.They do make you order at least one hookah for every two people, which is definitely understandable considering the limited space and the number of groups who go with only half of the members smoking.The staff is friendly and will cater to any of your needs if you ask.All in all, it's definitely worth a visit. Any bar you'd go to, you'd end up spending two-three times as much at least for the amount of time you can be consuming their product... Where else can you spend an hour and a half at and only spend $8 per person?

by Kristin G.

Didn't eat any food. Headed upstairs for the hookah lounge. Kind of rude service (we had to wait a HELLA long time, even though there were tables open) and when one of our hookahs was broken, the waitress basically told us we were lying. But overall the place had a cool ambiance, good music and excellent hookah flavors (we got peach and cherry.)