Haji Baba

Your one best stop in downtown where you can really have a good night at. They have really good hookahs and their food is amazing definitely one of the best middle eastern lounges in San Diego

The food here isn’t good at all, the chicken shwarma was not good and the rice was old. Only thing I liked was customer service.

This place is just sad. Not sure whats going on. Use to have amazing food. …now it’s dissapointing. Get it together.

Worse place ever! Where should I start? Well, my friends and I came here on a Saturday evening to watch the belly dancer and enjoy the music. 1) The cost of the food was expensive every person had to pay $ 25-​$ 36 for food, cover, and soft drinks. 2) There was only one waiter who didn’t really understand what we were trying to ask. 3) There were no fruit bowls for the hookah even though the menu said they had them 4) They couldn’t tell us when the belly dancer was coming out 5) The hookah was not smooth at all 6) The bathrooms were disgusting!!! 7) The menu was only limited to certain food items for the evening and the price we paid and we didn’t even get the items that were supposed to be included so they substituted certain dishes for others.
The only good thing was the taste of the food, and the entertainment which finally came out around midnight.

Very disappointed. after I made reservation on the phone for B-​day party I was told the singer and the belly dancing start at 10pm. The singer didn’t show up till pass 11. There was no belly dancer. The food was a joke. I was embarrassed I front of the people I invited. The meet was very old and dry. Checkin was burned. Even though my deal was to have dinner or appetizer with soft drinks, they served water for everyone with out asking what they wanted. I had to go ask them to come to our table and ask each person what they wanted to drink. Our table was the only table in the whole restaurant. They had no customers on Friday night. I expected better service. Never making reservation there anymore. Glad we as a group were able to enjoy ourselves.

Not a very happy bride. I inquired with this restaurant back in February and spoke to rami. He have me a quote of 21 $ per person and told me that he would run it past his brother, raji, and he would get back to me within a week. Weeks go by and I call back. I ended up having to leave a message and still no reply back from them. I kept having to call several times. Excuse after excuse. «Oh the owner isn’t here. He’s out of town. Blah blah blah.» I leave my contact information. Still no one calls me back. Then weeks later I call again to finally get a hold of the owner and I inform him of the quote his brother gave me back in February. He told me no that, that’s incorrect. He ended up trying to charge me 5 dollars more and I asked him for a contract and he said he doesn’t deal with contracts. That was a huge red flag for me! I informed him that I’ve been there many times with my family and that I go to his same church and I don’t understand why all the chaos and headache just to get this venue booked???
Long story short he refused to do a contract with me and gave me a very hard time about it and gave me so much attitude to the point where I canceled and will be taking my business elsewhere!!! I will never ever do business with raji again! Very unprofessional, rude and unacommodating!

The service is horrible, we waited for well over an hour and a half for our food and after we got up to leave, they said that our food was ready. We paid the $ 500 tab for appetizers that we had and left without eating our dinner. I will never go there again nor will I ever recommend it to anyone to go this place. This place is a JOKE.

This place is by far terrible, from service to food, atmosphere and the owner is a slick shiester. Food took almost 2hrs to come out and it wasnt busy yet. Their employees cannot comprehend english or how to serve ppl. Their hookah and drinks were beyond bad and expensive, better places to go in downtown San Diego. The owner and crowd look like a bunch of punks and thieves, stay away.

Stay away!!! This place should get negative 5stars, food took me so long to bring out then we asked them to cancel our order and then they demanded us to pay still. they brought us the bill prior to us even getting our food we were overcharged and had paid for something that we never even received. These guys should be shut down! there is another middle eastern restaurant in El Cajon called Ali Baba’s much choice

Trust me this is garbage if you know what I mean !! The owner was drunk and the staff were just stupid

Everything about our experience was Terrible! We had a large party and we were the ONLY people there and jt still took 2 hours until we were served dinner. The waiter brought out two plates at a time and in between bringing plates, he would go talk to people walking in the door. The chicken and beef kabobs were extremely dry. I’m pretty sure they reheated the food in the microwave before serving. We had to go to bar to ask for water several times. Our appetizer plates were never cleared before dinner came out. I physically cleared our table and put our dirty plates on the table next to us.
We brought family visiting from out of town and were embarrassed to have brought them. We will never come back here.

this place is fabulous they have the best Mediterranean food out there, went last Saturday and they had a life band with the best singers, this place is rocking i had a lot of fun i will differently go back again.

Management sucksssssssss… the place is almost empty they still wana charge u a cover charge cuz we did not wana eat and what ever u order is extra after long negotiations we paid 15 dollars cover .what the owner don’t get is every were we go we do spend regardless its the attetiude that sucks instead of making people feel welcomed they make u go wow wat a cheap @$$ owner… the waitress was amazing though forgot her name. never going back ever

I’ve never been to an establishment that charges me $ 25 just for sitting there. I didn’t even touch the food, yet I was billed. Ok, I lied. I paid $ 5-​$ 10 on occasion to go watch UFC fights at the Bullpen (beats Pay-​Per-​View).
But what the hell! Charging people $ 25/​person for bread and some sauce! What a selfish joke!
In addition to this, a group gratuity charge was added to my bill. The nerve. This is 2015 do they read about the new law in place in regards to automatic gratuity?
The one star and gratuity was set strictly for the waitress Chantel who took care of us constantly refilling our drink and checking up on us.

I like to go when they have the live singer, place is nice, prices are little bit high.

Very bad food + very expensive place, I get recipe and You have to get tip $ 20: /​. It was really bad services. Anyone who want hookah. + tax 10 $ and more. It is really fake place. He should go to another place in market street

This is place a joke .
They charge so much it’s unbelievable
no wonder hardly anyone goes their beside Fob
I will never ever go back here and I don’t recommend this place to anyone .
We walked in They bright us small plante of
(hummus, labne, and 4 pices of falafel)
and the worst hookah ever …
our bill was over $ 130 !!i don’t mind paying this much for good service or food
but when everything is so bad it’s just bad
They charge us $ 31 for sitting r u kidding me !!
The singer sucked so bad
The belly dancer I have no idea what she was doing or what kind of music she was dancing too .
The must we stayed was less then hour and I couldn’t wait to walk out of there
I will never ever go back to this place.

Great customer service ! The owner and nephew are so generous gave us free appetizer and dessert. The food is delicious and big portions.

I’ve frequented this place many times, notice I said MANY! Solely because they never disappoint! The place is everything a middle eastern establishment should be, great food & drink, wonderful ambiance and of course the hookah, lets not forget the live entertainment as well! This place gets an easy 5stars from me! Keep up the great food and service guys, it’s always on point!
Satisfied costumer!

This place is a joke.
We ordered on Friday night at 6:48pm and didn’t receive the food until after 10 PM.
They couldn’t have at least called us to tell us they were going to be late?
Needless to say, it arrived cold and soggy, and there were dirty napkins in the bag. I tossed it it right in the trash.
When I called them to tell them about the poor service, they told us they’re not going to refund us because I accepted the food at the door. Am I supposed to open this up on the street and feel it to make sure it’s hot?
The guy I talked to also got very rude with me when I asked for the manager, telling me that he just stepped out. I left my contact info and the manager eventually did call me back. He was also very rude and didn’t want to do anything about the mess. Poor service, rude people, bad business.