0 a place where customers can sit and smoke shisha (= pipes for burning tobacco, in which smoke passes through a container of water before it is breathed in):
In Belgium, smoking is allowed at shisha bars, but food may not be served in the same place.
More authentic Egyptian socializing is to be found by sharing a water pipe with friends in the numerous sheesha bars.
When a football match is on, shisha cafes are packed with people gathered around the TV sets.
There is a dense warren of outdoor shisha cafes in the back alleys surrounding Cairo's old stock exchange.
He took me to another shisha house, where we started to teach each other bits of Arabic and English.
