Difference in Grand Joud Cafe

With pretty much everything Sunshine5580 said.. My brother's been there with friends of different ethnicities and received different treatment from the chief staff accordingly. Another incident (a negative one) with Grand Joud was when they charged my friend and I for a Grand Shisha, even though I did not request one. Their reply to my query for being overcharged was... "Ah, yes... this is the price."

I'm taking Arabic classes, to converse with the 'sole' Arabic speakers, but I don't think I'll be going to Grand Joud to try it out. They're not crying over the loss of presence and I sure as He** ain't cryin' over them! Just venting!!

thts Assaha not saha. thts the place i was talkg abut earlier. their food isnt tht great though, n their sheesha is pretty dense. n they take a hell lot of time to get the bill tht it frustates u.

I have no clue. I kno another place tht is next to toyota signal.Country sumthing. n ritz also has sheesha. they charge around 250 for 2 ppl. pretty grand.

saha is the lebanese restaurant, next to the olympic sports at the old crazy roundabout ( now its the crazy traffic signals)

you guys keep on talking about places..but for the naive ppl like ME..i don't knw where saha is?!!

so can someone tell me..

never say never!

lol...

never tried this flavour, Drac… I prefer tufaha or einab in sheesha

i like Saha in sheesha :P

i like sheesha in Saha

Sunshine..they do Have their shisha nights, we're not invited YET cause we're Newbies, we'll have to get someone to leak the location and we'll crash their little party

damn it, i love it when am all evil

one thing's for sure.sheeha is enjoyed by all.mayb ll QL members shud hav a sheesha get together.

Prettyeyez, yea candle city does have sheesha :D

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I know that Le Gourmet has good Lebanese beautifuls (sweets). Never knew they have sheesha as well.

Talking about your place, you will need to put it on the map of QLSG.

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Assaha followed the prevailing trend here. Its service and food quality sucks. yuck.

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forgot to add.. if you want there is

Le gourmet (Near Ramada instead of the one in Souq Waef)

Shami Restaurant (good food & Shesha)

And there is at my place :P:P LOL

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There is Khaymet il Bustan

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This is probably a bit late.. but the treatment there varies from waiter to waiter and you do not have to be arabic speaking in order to get a different treatment.. i have been there several times and it is as if the waiters are PMSing (no offense ment) and are either rude or take forever to get what you order and so on.. Whether it is the head waiters (who are arabic speaking) or the foreign waiters that serve the meals.. I find them all rude and obnoxious..

The reason for difference in treatment between up and down is the fact that it is more crowded up usually but I have never faced a problem of having to order something to eat.. on many occasions it is just sheesha and a drink (coffee, tea, juice, whatever)

and Darude i tried being rude back.. honestly.. it doesnt even make you feel better it gets you even more pissed off because the waiters have the gall to get even ruder.

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has nyone tried assaha near crazy signal.its prety good

Not so bad really..

Awtar charge 28 for the shisha

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thexonic..does this city candle place also have shisha..or ur just asking us to check it out lol

how much does the AWTAR Place charge for their shisha?!!

i was told by a friend that layali is also a great place to smoke shisha indoor..so i guess i'll pay it a visit after my exams and maybe smoke my head off!!

wouldnt want to go there. jsut wanted to know where it is. thnx nyways. u r a dear.

Take Salwa road pass Hardees Round about bare to the right hand side then before Kia Showroom on the right hand side take that road then after 10 yards you will see a Swiss Pattiserie on the left hand side take that left turn. then viola! Garveys is infront of you! note: the road is under construction at the moment.

WHERE'S GARVEYS?

will do every where dont worry Doha is still big on that for us all. but after tomorrow sure bowling.

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Darude there are also:

City candle restaurant near toyota signal and Verda rest. behind Ramada. U could check them out too.

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If you plan going to Awtar, then we need to decide on the number and book the place some 4 days ahead. The sheesha place has limited space.

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regarding Garveys. I was shocked when I arrived here and some of my white friends invited me for a drink at Garveys. I said yes but when I heard them say it is a white only placebut since I would be going along with them it would be OK.

I immediately declined the offer on principle as if I went with them then I would be in a manner supporting racisim.

hmm sound pretty good

Guys be ready next week we march to awatar or avtar wateva

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i know a few places for sheesha though

1. Grand Joud Cafe - go there only if u r arabic speaking.

2. Avataar restaurant - next to Crep Away (inside Muthana Complex)

3. Layali restaurant - Salwa road

4. Al kher Restaurant - Next to Popeye.

5. Souq Waqif.

6. Ras Al Nassa - Corniche Thts the one u r talkg abut.

now i m stuck . cant remember ny other places. but ll add more if i do remember.

I like my Sheesha, When I was in Abu Dhabi a few years ago, I think they have the best Sheeha place along the AD cornishe, women and men sitting and enjoying sheeha even arabic women in their habya's are frwquent visitors and some time out number the men there..

Yet to find a decent Sheesha place in Doha, I have tried the one on the Cornishe near fishing boats, and the one in the Old souqs, Do any of you QL are frequent visitors to this Garhood place, I would love some company.. PM me if any one is volunteering to take me along to this place..

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DaRude..watch me do that and get paid for my bad deed by him throwing the hot coal over me..under the excuse of being "Blind"

for that purpose are the laser just point it to their eye and they will come rushing

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never had a problem there and they never asked us to have anything "forcefully". in fact we even told them we don't even the crappy water bottle for which they charge for and we don't end up drinking but we ordered our soda's

and everyone left satisfied, the only observation the coal guy on the top floor is bloody slow as f**k, you have to call him a million times before he eventually hears you lol

Nyways its a nice suggestion tht we all go together n crowd tht place so much , tht they get frustated with us. they cant even throw us out. Lets try to be the devil for a change. hahaha.

Daruling ..

how to get rude??

the other day i remember at RC, with security staff....:)

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If you look at what you have in life;

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"i didn't experience it..wherever I go with my buddy"

Maybe they treat you nice because you have a great "buddy"??

I mean take me, for example. Ya'ani wallah I would treat you so gently and would do anything to satisfy your great "buddy"

Your "buddy" is a temple! Mine is a lunapark :-)

Sunshine...I understand your frustration about the treatment in some places!

FYI, the No.1 racist place in Qatar is called "Garveys"

 why dont we go together some day with few QLers and i teach you how to be rude with such ppl and how to piss them with in few second.

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Guess wht they started charging 10% service charge for their shitty service.

they arent even worth it...

Good morning all,

Last time I went to the above mentioned place was more than 2.5 years ago, and I never went again, and this is what happened:

Regardless the bad service, I asked for the bill at the end, and I gave the waitress my AMEX card, she came back saying it was declined, then I gave her my VISA card, and I asked her politely to charge it on this card, and get me the confirmation ticket that the AMEX transaction was declined so I can show it to AMEX office and solve the problem, because that paper has a reference number for the error.

She turned red face, and thought that I don't trust her, and she gave me sh*t, real sh*t I did not say anything, and I was just smiling as usual, but her boss noticed that, and he came to me, I asked him not do do anything with her or fire her, because she must be tired since it was almost 01:00 AM, I told him it's allright, and then he explained that no paper came out of the machine, I paid with the other card, and left, and never went back there again, there are a plenty of other places where I can smoke shiha nicley without any disturbance, so it's not the only place, and just as someone said; ignorance is a bless, and they are just loosing custoers day after day.

Just wanted to share this.

Cheers

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U know, I love pissing these people off, this other time, I made them wait for 2 hours before i ordered, just to see what happens and my friends and i were laughing our head off just by looking at their faces, thats the best part. What you can do is start scribbling on the table and stick a chewing gum under the table, since its glass, they can see it clearly and get even more pissed off lol. What will they do kick u out??? well there's ur chance of picking a fight with them... show them what u r made of ;).

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2 years ago I had a big fight at that sh*t hole... lol, it was funny, i was about the beat the living hell out of the supervisor, coz of the way he was acting. But we just had a verbal argument, then my friends pulled me away :@ idiots lol j/k...

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1 rial tip? Whats the point? Eat salad ok

...just do one thing: tell them what do you really think,loud and clear,in front of everybody there...simple!

Speak up...and keep in mind my favourite quote below:

- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent -

i went there and i got some bad treatment once so i totally disrespected them and i actually treated them in a very very bad way, i would call the head waiter and tell him to change the charcoal for me on the shisha.. and in the end i left them a 1 riyal tip... hehehhehehehhe taught them a lesson

i am not a shisha person, the first time i been to shisha place was few mths back when my mom was here. That was with QL crowd.

I cannot but agree with you

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KH.. yeah yeah yeah.. you guys are always up to any excuse..just to have more than one wife...lol...

sunshine.. to be honest, i don't think they will loose all their cliens.. as you said, they do not treat everyone equaly, it means some clients are treated extremly well..

The rule applies both ways :)

What's fair is fair

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go to the sports shop buy boxing gloves next time any one gets rude get his or her nose busted on spot but for a powerful blow you need to join a gym first to make some muscles :D

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I would recommend you go to Awtar. A nice restaurant. Very decent place, staff and customers. Reasonably priced and they have sheesha

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i never had problem with that place. only problem was no seat left.

I DO WHAT I LIKE, I LIKE WHAT I DO

dont worry i dont plan on going back there or letting ny of my friends go there either. nyways they ll lose customers in ths way. but i do wanna go bck n give a nice piece of advice to their Manager on his staff attitude and sum ethics.

by the way, i am also not in love with that place.. but for me there is something special (private) about this place...

but i didn;t go there for a loong time by now.. there are much better places in Doha..

i wonder what my other half would tell me if i said i want 4 husbands with different skin colour ??? Lol

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next time keep a ciggy in your mouth and keep puffing on their face if they get rude again.

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Good idea ...... NOT !!!!

sheesha is bad for health, it gives you lung cancer AND a bad mood

Actually i had no probs there till today. n when i saw wht was happening in tht establishment, i m going to hesitate to go bck there , unless the person i know is there. if i knew this is wht happens there, i would have never gone there. plus it was convenient for me n my freinds as its nearby to our residence. n u know the trafic in doha nowadays, its exhausting.....

They help as human "gatepass" to such places. On condition they should have different skin colors. We need here the white, wheatish, yellow and dark-skinned :)

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is any of their staff member of QL whats their id. ah dont worry chill. and find a better cafe.

Novi clear all your issues quick

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i am off for QL get together for now Da. Need to sort some issues out.

Its surprising that no one says nything to the staff for their stupid behaviour.

sunshine ... bring and spend your money somewhere else, why you have to spend your hard earned money in that place?

lets go to this cafe then and see how rude he gets with us and then HOW RUDE I GET WITH THEM :D

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We can also be rude. But y shud we stope to their level. doesnt mean we shud do sumthing like scream at sumone , coz hes being bad with us. Nyways i did make an issue abut it, the guy seemed a bit worried. so maybe he wont do it again, but i doubt it.

lol at KH ... i have received my fair treatment ...although not from the said establishment above.

And the treatment totally opposite when i bring my white husband :-)

You can get rude too no one ever stopped you. Tit for tat remember.

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Novi became racist :D

But I agree with you Novi.

Been to that place few years ago. Did not like it, neither its staff or their stupid rules.

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Y cant we do sumthing? y shud we bear it. if no one talks abut it, then how r we going to solve the probs in our society. if we just sit n do nuthing, it ll happen to others too. this is the 21st century, n we arent in a country where we are bonded labourers tht we shud bear such things. its easy to say tht we cannot do nything. we can always do sumthing.n the first thing to do is to raise our voice against such attitude.

oh, i see, Novi and sunshine...so my buddy and i together have two "qualities" ... I have "a white skin and blonde" and he is "arabic speaking"...so we must be fine, eh?...lol..

i have experienced it too.. but then there is nothin we can do.. so i dont bother.. i am irritated for a while.. and then i go to another place and am back to normal..

or if u r arabic speaking. u shud have atleast one quality. then u can expect to be treated very well there

as far as i know if you have a white skin and blonde you would be fine. Sorry QS ... couldnt resist Lol.

Maybe coz you went in with sumone who knows the person, thts y u didnt experience it. i saw a group of ppl leaving just coz they were forced to order food when they didnt want it. n tht also their order had to be taken twice and they got so fed up, tht they just got up n paid for the water n left.so its not new. i even talked to one of the waiters n it has happd many times there.

i didn't experience it.

i only expeirenced one thing: wherever I go with my buddy, we are always treated well.. it seems like everyone knows him everywhere, and he is a friend to everyone...:)

..btw, and what nationality you should be in order to be treated well?