Just as you never plan to go to a Denny’s at 2 AM in the morning, but end up there anyway, you will at some point end up at Siva. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when, and is often where I take my friends when they come to Prague for the first time. Your friends, your
tea-craving body, and your bank account will thank you….Siva is a hookah bar/tea room with wonderful Arabian ambiance. Boasting over 100 kinds of tea hailing from all parts of the globe, Siva really delivers an international flavor. Below the main level is downstairs room with wonderful alcoves, cushioned rooms, hookah pipes, and over 30 different flavors of tobacco called Mu’assel.
As a cultural experience, environment to relax, and a dim place to take a girl with hippie propensities you just can’t do better than a hookah lounge and tea room.
But drinking holes, like people, can only be truly loved when they drop the pretense 
of pretending to profundity and experienced for pure enjoyment and relaxation from the fast paced outside world.
The trippy atmosphere, dim, incense-tinged spaces for sipping, beatnik servers, quality and selection of teas have come together to truly create a Zen atmosphere. It’s also given the rest of us a dark, warm place in winter in which to sit on the floor and share a water pipe, or hookah with girls named Sun Child and Moon Unit.Tea at Siva is pleasant and quite agreeable with my style of hookah lounge, planted in a typical Prague rock-walled cellar hidden so far beneath the streets of Old Town you may need to bring your own oxygen. 
The staff are quite entertaining, each with their own unique style, and are more than happy to help you pair your choice of tea with one of their many flavors of Mu’assel, a half tobacco, half syrup (usually honey or molasses) mixture smoked in a Hookah.
My favorite rooms in Siva, is a particularly dark back room down in the catacombs which comes complete with a pillow-padded floor. Chambers like these often lead interesting situations if you happen to be on a date, some of which have been quite enjoyable.
Staré Mesto, P1
Tel. 222 315 983
www.siva.cajiky.cz
Open noon-midnight daily
