E Squared Cafe

We ordered tiramisu from here once — soooooo gentle tasty melting in your mouth! This is my secret ’ I want amazing desert’ place!

I keep hoping cute coffee shops and such will take off on Staten Island. This shop didn’t live up to what I hoped it’d be. On a side note-​I don’t smoke hookah so maybe this shop is more for hookah smokers. That aside, it’s dark and had a musky smell. They have a lot of frappé options such as cotton candy. I tried the vanilla bean for $ 5.25. It tasted very sweet and lacked a delicious vanilla flavor. Nothing on their menu enticed me but that may have been because I couldn’t see it well with the dim lighting at noon. I wouldn’t return.

This is good for Staten Island. Sorry guys but I’ve been to Hookah spots in both Morocco and Turkey and Egypt, its just not the same.
I came here late late Monday or Tuesday, can’t remember (aka the place was unremarkable)
Let me tell you why:
–3 people took our order. All 3 people came back to see if we had ordered or not 15 Minutes later
–What we ordered: Coffee, tea, a chocolate crossant, cheesecake
40 minutes later the coffee and chocolate crossant come out. Um ok were you baking the pastery in the back? I asked where my items were. The guy looked at me like I was nuts. I restated my order and he ran away only to come back 10 minutes later to tell me no cheesecake. OK that only took you 50 minutes to tell me… ok I will have the pudding… NO PUDDING HUH? OK HOW ABOUT YOU JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE… A BROWNIE? SURE IF THATS THE ONLY LEFT SUREEEE…
Hey buddy! MY TEA? How about that?
urghhhhhhhhhhhh…
Finally my stuck came.
After the «service part» was done we started having a good time.
The crowd is young and I was like the only female besides one of the servers.

The ambience is great and the seating is very cozy, especially the couch area they have for bigger groups. The waitress was very helpful and she always checked up on us. I took one star away because the shisha was a bit too harsh.

Best hookah that Staten Island has to offer. The staff is very nice and attentive too.

Went to get hookah and some coffee and this place never disappoints. The owner is always so pleasant and comes over to say hello and check on how everything is going. The crowd is a little young for my taste but if your with a date it doesn’t matter whose around. The waitress came over a bunch of times to make sure we were good, had coal and were ok with our drinks. The bubble tea was yum and so was the decaf cappuccino I had. The apple hookah was pretty good to, I’m not a huge fan but it def met my standards. Overall I recommend this place, especially for the high school college kids. Its a good hangout spot.

This is a great place to sit and relax and enjoy a cup of coffee with friends. I would most defiantly recommend this place to a lot of people. I have been here multiple times and never get tired of it. The waitresses are very nice and don’t take long to serve you.
It is a very clean and friendly environment, I get to have nice conversations with the owner and waitresses which are always present.
It is also open till late so you can stay as long as you would like, it’s never crowded when i go there which is around 5 PM to 8 PM so it is a very good chill out spot. The lack of WiFi isn’t a big concern but probably should be improved.
Other than that i enjoy my stay there very much and am always encouraged to come back again!

A favorite hang out spot, open late

Great place to sit, smoke a good hookah, and have a cup of coffee. The owner is always present and conversing with patrons and every time I go there, I get such great treatment and service. The hookah is good and the smoke is thick, there is a coal-​boy (?) that comes around every few minutes and you can always customize yr flavors. One drawback is the lack of wifi. Another is the amount of annoying staten island kids in there.
The only other hookah place I go to is 101 Café at Akron Place of off Richmond Ave… only because it has a full bar, dancing and parties … and those kinds of things are important to me :)

The major drawback of this place is that there is no WiFi (they loose 2 stars for this). They already put so much effort and money into the place that it’s hard to understand why, and it’s the only place on the island with hookah that has no WiFi. They are open very early which makes it tempting to make the drive all the way to the southern tip of the island, but I find myself not bothering because of the lack of WiFi.
The place is very well decorated and has two booth spots with curtains that resemble more traditionally Middle Eastern places that have these areas. There is even a little water fountain, and choices between standard table seating and leather sofas.
They have a very wide selection of snacks and drinks but no alcohol. They do not serve meals, but there are so many things to snack on that you could hold yourself over until you go eat.
The hookah was quite a bit better than most places on the island, except that they do use the round chemical coals, and the waitress overstuffed the head, but it didn’t seem to cause a problem. You can request natural coals, but the staff admitted she doesn’t use them often and would put them on when they weren’t fully hot yet, and then they would go out soon after. Hookahs are $ 15.

Like I said before, not many places on SI deserve recognition. I love E Squared café because it doesn’t belong in SI. Where else can you smoke a hookah while drinking bubble milk tea? Exactly, not in SI. The coffee and tea drinks are delicious, but way over priced. I paid around $ 6 for a large iced flavored milk tea w tapioca. That is insane, but there was nowhere else I could go to satisfy that craving. The décor is very cozy and cute. The only downside is the fist pumping music of 2000.