Hookah Lounges in Tulsa

Tulsa's two open hookah rooms are a fifteen-minute drive apart, so the choice is usually about which side of the city you are on. Star Avenue Hookah Lounge at 2625 East 11th Street sits on the old Route 66 alignment east of downtown, close to the University of Tulsa, and it is the city's best-reviewed room at 4.6 stars across 310 reviews. It runs a bar alongside the pipe, opens at 5 PM every day, and closes at 1 AM on weeknights and 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays. Sessions are $20 to $30. Puff Hookah Lounge at 8234 East 71st Street, out past Memorial in the Woodland Hills retail stretch, is the cheaper and later option: $10 to $20 a session, open from 6 PM, and running until 3 AM on Fridays and Saturdays. A third room, The Buzz Hookah on East 103rd Street in south Tulsa, is currently marked temporarily closed. Tulsa also has unusually deep hookah retail, with three Cloud Chaserz smoke shops, one of them open until 2 AM. Oklahoma raised its tobacco purchase age to 21 in May 2020.

Star Avenue is the room for an evening out: it serves drinks, it is within reach of the downtown and Blue Dome bars, and it fills on Friday and Saturday nights. Puff is the room for a late, low-key session after somewhere else has closed. Mint, double apple and grape lead the menus at both, sessions run 45 to 60 minutes, coal service is included and tipping the attendant is customary. Tulsa's many cigar lounges, from Classic Cigars downtown to Bourbon and Ash on South Sheridan, are a separate scene and do not serve hookah, so check the category before you set out.