Reviews for Layali Beirut in Queens, NY
Awesome little shop, good smoke, good food and great people, the tea is really good and service is good. Pretty laid back place.... I like quite places due to being half deaf and the music is light the lighting is turned down and the seating is comfortable Read more
Highly recommend, super yummy foods! Love their owner NABIL! Homely environment, must GO?
I'm in NYC every week for business and have been wanting to try this place ... Well we stopped in yesterday for lunch and a... hookah...they just started opening at 2:00pm a few days earlier. We were starving and couldn't wait to get something toeat...so we started with several appetizers...I can recommend everything I ate...all delicious. We started with: Fried Kibbehfried cracked wheat stuffed with ground meat & onions - it was served with a Ranch "like" sauce - very tasty Falafel vegetablepatties deep fried - delicious - Stuffed Grape Leaves, stuffed with rice, tomatoes, parsley, mint & olive oil, they were servedwarm and tasted magnificent. And Naturally we had hummus - there was warmed Pita for us to enjoy with the hummus - I reallyenjoyed all these appetizers. My friend and I shared a Lunch Entree - a Shish Kebab platter, tender lamb grilled with onions,and peppers grilled in flatbread....served with fries DELICIOUS. Both my friend and I enjoy Hookah - so we had a Lemon Mintshisha and later enjoy another round of Blue Mist - GREAT HOOKAHS, the bowls are packed well and they continually replenish yourcoals as needed. I recommend this place - a very friendly staff and just a cool place to hang out - I can't wait to go back Read more
Absolutely love the food here and as a Lebanese, I would say that it?s authentic & done the right way. You won?t be... disappointed. The service was fantastic, the food tasted amazing, and the restaurant had a really nice vibe. Will def be comingback! Read more
The most amazing food and the best customer service. I love the nabeel and his smile. The only place that gets better every... time. This is an off menu item the baby lamb shoulder. Melting off the bone. Read more
If you are looking for a good crowd and a good hookah place around Astoria then I would definitely suggest you this place. It?s... a quite chilled place with some good choice of music. They have a wide variety of hookah that you can choose from. Also theirfood menu is quite enriched. Ordered half fried chicken and fried calamari for food. I really loved their fried chicken. Theseasoning was perfect and tasted super amazing. But compared to the serving quantity the price seemed a little high. Also Idon?t know about their recipe but I felt the food and fried were missing a little touch of salt. Their fried calamari wasaverage and also missing the touch of salt. Except for that, their tea platter seemed to be popular. And loved the hookah. Theychange the coal in every 30mins. So you can just take your group here and chill for hours. Also I didn?t take cash so had topay them by Venmo/Cashapp since they don?t accept cards. I?m glad that they had this option, otherwise I would just had to goout and cash out from Atm. They add 18% service charge on the bill, which seemed a little off for me. Read more
Attention to service is not a thing here. You better get your orders in one go or you would have to hunt down your waiter. We... didn?t see the waiter until we were leaving after our order. This is very chill place. We spent a good hour just smoking andchatting with a pot of tea. Love the tea set and almost want to buy a set if they sell them. After we got out hookah, we got acoal refill once after 20 mins or so and then that?s all you got. He went on to watch someone else playing game a few tablesaway. We have to wave down a guy name Sinbab who convinced us to come to their shop initially to get our bill. They take Venmo,cash or Zelle. Good bye to your credit card point. Also it?s weird to add a 18% tip to the bill for a table of 3. I didn?tcomplain as it?s pretty late but I bet someone did. Read more
Came here with my dude. Was wanting someplace to have some snacks and a hookah. Very extensive menu. Many options. The hookah... was solid and lasted forever. The tea was really good also. The only thing negative I can say is that the service is veryLebanese.... You have to tell them you want something because they won't come and check on you. This is to be expected. As faras the food, the things that were good were really good and the things that were not so good were really really bad. The hummusand falafel were very much not good. Everything else we ordered was solid. The fattoush was amazing and was maybe the third BestI ever had. I was very surprised by how good it was. Read more