Bringing a taste of Miami’s decor and flavor to Tysons, Virginia, Babalu serves a variety of Mediterranean food along with an extensive hookah menu. Babalu’s lounge offers live entertainment and music during the night. With unbeatable daily happy hour specials and lunch buffets, Babalu caters to a wide range of events.We have a large beautiful venue, with an attached room that can serve as a private space for happy hours, corporate events, birthday parties, graduation parties, private events, cocktail celebrations, and more!We are also a shisha and hookah lounge. Shisha is a blend of fruit, molasses and tobacco leaves. There is no tar in our hookah tobacco, which is why the smoke does not linger or stick to your clothes. The nicotine content in our tobacco is very low- .05%. The smoke produced is very light and pleasant, and comes in over 30 flavors. We carry Al Fakher Tobacco (pronounced al-fa-her) from Dubai, the finest in the world. Stop in for a demonstration! Hookah, also known as arghila, is a Middle Eastern tradition that dates back hundreds of years. Hookah is a water pipe in which flavored tobacco or “shisha” is smoked from. The shisha, which is composed of fruit, molasses and tobacco leaves is heated indirectly by hot coals. To operate the hookah, one simply inhales through the hose.