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Bars in Which to Have Cigars

Cigars on my porch are fine but nothing is quite as good as sitting on a comfortable couch and having cigars in well-ventilated room. Since I graduated from Penn, and no longer could justify spending large amounts of time in the Pine Room at the KA lodge, I been looking for a good place indoors to smoke a cigar. The search intensified when I moved in with Janice. Occasionally I used to smoke in my apartment, but that's a non starter in our house. For all these reasons, I've looked to bars where I could smoke.

Consequently I'll be highlighting a couple of my favorite places to grab a smoke in Philly over the few weeks. I say "Bars in Which to Have Cigars" instead of "Cigar Bars," because most of the bars are just places that happen to let you smoke cigars, not full fledged cigar bars. The first bar I chose to highlight is perhaps the highest quality place to go (and the only real cigar bar on the list). It might not be a great value, but I will get to good values in later entries.

If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know.


September 20, 2005 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 1:22 AM

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Comments

Terrance, read your blog just surfing around before calling it a night. Thought I would drop a comment of no particular importance or for that matter relevance other than a suggestion should you ever visit my area. I was looking up a review on Cohibas and their relative value and somehow got to your blog. For what its worth (nothing) I am an IT guy myself although with a security/lan/wan background. I manage a few programmers but the black arts of programming is not my specialty. Wish I knew more but I try. Regarding Philly I have never been there although it is a town I would be up for checking out (maybe around the pretense of checking out a ballgame) but I will keep your cigar bar recommendation in mind. Boston recommendations if you have any interest - I am a fairly newer cigar aficionado but If you are in Boston you should check out Stanza dei Sigari which has a very cool old old Boston feel to it - lots of history there. We had a great dinner and drinks at Cafe Vitoria and after a cigar check out Mike's or Modern if you have a sweet tooth. I went in a rush and went on the cheap and had a house cigar which I regretted - not horrible but I have had many better. I will get a decent name brand next time but I only had half an hour or so with my wife who wouldn't last the hour and didn't want to pay 20-25 for a twenty-thirty minute smoke. She had a desert on the brain at Mike's Pastry or Modern's) - a Boston must if you are in the North End.

I noticed one guy brought in his own smokes and I asked him about it and he said there was no lighting fee - sounds like a bargain as normally there is a 10 lighting fee at some places. Stanzi had some nice smokes but you would trade the green for the sticks.


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