I was thinking about that old club on Hillsborough St., I forgot the name of it, but it's been empty for quite a while now....do you guys think it would make for a good hookah lounge? I know that Pi started out as a hookah lounge, but now they stopped serving hookah and it's more of a club now. I'd like to start something similar to Marakesh, but larger with more tables and more variety to eat and drink.

6/6/2007 2:13:47 AM

yea...but dont play foreign music...

6/6/2007 2:26:12 AM

yeah, I figured with a mostly non-Arab customer base, I guess it'd be better to play American music. When I visited my friend in Brooklyn a few months ago, all the hookah lounges played arabic music....but 95% of the customers were arab

6/6/2007 2:31:39 AM

The answer to this question is:

NO

Manjrri lounge didnt work for a reason, which is now the Pi bar. There already is a hookah bar on Hillsb. street anyways right across from ricks hall and its never really got a terribly long wait anyways.

you would just be competing for the same customers which means split profits not to mention I dont have a clue where you would imagine putting this place...like what building and all.

The best idea is to start a dance club on hills that is similar to something like in Greenville, because then you would have pi bar and the other which would in turn create a nightlife scene to some extent.

thats my personal feeling...for what its worth.

6/6/2007 2:36:57 AM

there's that old club which is empty now on Hillsborough St., past the Wachovia....I'm trying to think what's next to it, I think a printing store, and then that ice cream shop which closed down

6/6/2007 2:41:20 AM

restaurant/hookah place would be awesome.... then at night it could be a dance club

because you're not going to make money just off the hookahs... make it more restaurant oriented with a hookah section as well where you can watch tv and shit... music in the background


i know a lot of restaurants in charlotte do this.. not the hookah thing, but restaurant during day and most of the night.. then dance/bar at night

6/6/2007 2:42:30 AM