Two shisha restaurants in Park Royal have been ordered to pay thousands of pounds after repeatedly ignoring warnings from Ealing Council about breaches of smoking laws.
Last month (19 August 2025), Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court heard that council officers discovered shisha smoking taking place in enclosed spaces at both businesses, despite prior advice that the practice was illegal.
Terrace Bakery, on Chase Road, and its director, Ali Bidarbakht, pleaded guilty to breaches of smokefree legislation. Bidarbakht was ordered to pay a £1,400 fine, £1,600.70 in court costs and a £560 victim surcharge. The prosecution followed two unannounced visits and repeated warnings, which the business failed to act upon, continuing to allow customers to smoke shisha indoors.
MRYB Ltd, trading as Alaturca Lounge on Coronation Road, and its director, Meriem Harchi, also pleaded guilty to similar offences. Harchi admitted to failing to register the premises as a food business, a legal requirement before opening. She was ordered to pay a £600 fine, £160 court costs and a £240 victim surcharge.
During an unannounced inspection in November 2024, officers were initially denied access to Alaturca Lounge before finding shisha pipes and a strong smell resembling shisha inside. A follow-up visit in January 2025 with police officers found two customers smoking despite “no smoking” signs displayed on the wall.
Since 2023, 14 businesses across the borough have been prosecuted and fined a combined total of more than £61,000 under the Health Act 2006 and Smokefree (Premises and Enforcement) Regulations 2006.
Councillor Kamaljit Nagpal, Ealing Council’s cabinet member for decent living incomes, said: “Tackling unsafe shisha operations is part of our commitment to keep our residents safe and healthy.”
Councillor Nagpal added: “Every business has a duty to operate responsibly. When they repeatedly ignore warnings of the smoking law, we will take decisive action to uphold safety standards and protect our residents.”
