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Tell Us About Your Favorite Local Cigar Lounge
Streater
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Let's hear about your favorite local cigar lounge. I have a place i frequent about 5 times a week and will give a detailed description later in the thread. I just thought I'd start this thread as I haven't seen this question posted yet and would like to hear what yall look for in a lounge.
I quote the words of the great tobacconist Steve Jones, "Smoke in peace."
I quote the words of the great tobacconist Steve Jones, "Smoke in peace."
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A cigar shop is only as good as the guy who runs it, and Sam at Barlows is the best there is.
that same guy introduced me to LFD
that same guy helped me develop my palate
that same guy and i would talk for hours about blending theory.
he ensured that my local B&M always had LFD, LG, Room 101, Camacho, Davidoff, Tatuaje, Fuente (including some rare OpusX), Oliva, Avo, Zino, Ashton, DPG, and in general my favorite cigars.
a few months ago, the owner fired him.
so i stopped going. im currently looking for a new B&M.
im miss access to LGs...
it was pretty much the only place i could go to smoke in the winter. i can get cigars here. thats for sure not a problem. this winter is gunna be a difficult one.
Smokey Joes in Fife. Very relaxing nice comfy chairs with pretty decent food and drinks. Tobacconist is there all the time and they have a great selection with a pretty decent prices.
Thunderbird Trading Company in puyallup. Fantastic selection and great prices but not the selection with food and drink. This place is closer and not usually as busy.
It's pricey, there is no lounge or alcohol served although sometimes there is a cooler with a few beers and soft drinks in it (complimentary). The regulars are all younger (who isn't younger than me?) and seem to be comprised mainly of groupies and cigar snobs. Early on, I attended a few events hosted by this B&M and they were OK but they must not have worked out well for them because they dwindled to nothing more than a cigar rep visiting the shop once in a while. All in all, just a disappointing experience. I'll happily settle for my patio or my campsite wherever I happen to have my trailer parked.
Last week, he waited over a month for me to make it into town to break open 3 boxes, one of a Pre Embargo puro from 59, rolled in 99 dated by US customs 1959. Then he busted out two more boxes from the same guy of 70/30 cuban/nic maduro's from 04. He's had these boxes for three weeks, and waited until I got there to open them to my surprise. Needless to say, we always try and one up each other, no different then here, and the discussions at the B&M are always excellent. Oh.....and I just found out there is a Chicago deep dish pizza place across the lot that has the best pizza I've ever had in my life.
The lounge is in the back. The membership fee is fairly priced, and you can rent a perfectly humidified locker as well. It's beautifully decorated with wood paneled walls and luxurious leather couches. There are 3 rooms. There is the main room with 3 big screens, the billiard room with a pool table, nice barstools and captains chairs, and the poker room with a full sized poker table and another big screen. It's byob, but he has free beer on tap. He usually has Shiner Bock and Miller Lite.
During the workweek, I spend most of my lunches there, and I have been known to make a long, working lunch as he has a wireless internet connection. The atmosphere is great, and the members are cool too. The owner of AKA cigars are members there, but I have yet to meet them. I've only been going here for a few months.
just as good as the last one (better actually) no Davidoff stuff though. that may change. it is an Avo lounge. love it. they have some good stuff and most importantly... they have a heater when it cold here in NE ohio.
Also, in Fayetteville, NC, there's Anstead's. It used to be a small shop in the mall, but my last time home I found out that they had moved. They now have a huge, two-room walk-in, a downstairs and upstairs lounge. I didn't get to hang there this last time, but it looked like one of the nicest cigar lounges I've ever seen.
They are expanding the liquor selection a little at a time and they have several special events, almost one a month. They also have a great pipe selection.