Sahara Mezz Bar

What a cute restaurant in midlevels! Close to Wyndham st and lkf, so it's an ideal place to eat and drink with your friends before you go out to party afterwards.

There are two things you absolutely have to get here: haloumi cheese salad and the zaaluk. The first is a salad topped with fried pieces of cheese. Sounds standard but YUM tasted like a grilled cheese sandwich without the pesky bread. The second is a wonderful eggplant based dip. Like hummus but much more flavorful.

They bring out unlimited pitas, both white and while wheat. Order a bottle of wine to accompany and they'll come around and make sure your drink is never empty. Great service and great food.

It's a chilly place to be with friends, nice music and nice sheesha. However the service is kinda slow. I recommend it anyway :)

One of the more lively places in Soho.

Yeah Soho is usually chill and all, everyone does some small talks, sips some wine, but Sahara is something different. The ground floor is, almost intentionally, always overcrowded. As in, at its full capacity, you will have a difficult time getting in or out of the place. But it's great in a way no one actually sits uncomfortably.

On the upper floor, which they only open it over weekends, is a semi-secret room that imitates a traditional Arabic/Middle Eastern social lounges (no I have no ideas what I'm talking about, but you'll understand once you are there). People take off their shoes and sit casually on the floor with mats and cushions. Pretty unique experience in Hong Kong.

Drinks are okay - nothing fancy, but you have your usual suspects all available here.

Shisha are good - very traditional, very raw in taste. Nothing to strong. Imagine Bloop, Boba Bear, or Vibe are like the "connoisseur" of shisha, Sahara will be like the down-to-earth, day-to-day friendly kind of shisha (in terms of taste, not here to recommend anyone to have shisha everyday).

The food is surprisingly good. I didn't have the chance to try it until recently (usually I'm only here for drinks and shisha), but I liked their meat platter a lot (I don't know the actual name of the dish).

And lastly, staff are utterly fun and friendly - they like to engage with the customers and actively make the place as lively as possible. Also interesting to note that, music (and the staff clapping along the music) is noticeably loud here, but having good chitchat here is not a problem at all. I'm not sure if it's the interior design, but I enjoy all the time I am here with good friends.

Lively place and lots of fun

Oh- and the food is great too!

Love all the appetizers but Tagine is king here

If you are in LKF and want to venture up the escalators or if you are in Soho area- this place is a great alternative to so many other cuisines and places

I have been here twice and both times were equally fun and excellent

Great service, food delicious and nice environment. Missed a bit of the real Moroccan flavors/spices but it was pretty close!

Definitely lovely spot for a date or a catch up with a friend - we stopped in on a Tuesday as I was craving some Middle Eastern food. The appetizer platter to share was perfect, the wine pours were nice, too. AND I liked the service, which isn't normal here in HK. I loved the atmosphere and will definitely be back.

Tiny cozy place to go if u fancy Middle Eastern food and shisha. Nice cocktails too.