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Merchants Cigar Bar Reopens In New York City After Four Year Hiatus

(Cigar Aficionado) Merchants Cigar Bar in Manhattan reopened on Wednesday, December 2 after a four-year shutdown. The cigar-friendly bar, which had been closed since December 2016, is new and improved, a smoking, eating and drinking lounge that sells an array of premium cigars, curated cocktails and even food in Manhattan’s Midtown East neighborhood, just by the Queensboro Bridge. Continued

My Trip To Boswell’s Pipe Shop

A Cigar-Friendly Steakhouse Opens in Frisco, Texas

(Cigar Aficionado) After two years of back-and-forth negotiation, Frisco, Texas, now has a cigar-friendly steakhouse where diners can legally puff on a post-porterhouse cigar in peace—or a rib eye. Restaurateur Dee Lincoln was originally going to build a separate, offsite cigar club outside her namesake restaurant, but she continued to push for a smoking room within the structure, and now Dee Lincoln Prime and Havana Dee’s cigar room are under the same roof. Continued

Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Cuba

(Tobacco Business) The Trump Administration is imposing new restrictions on Cuba, prohibiting Americans from staying at government-owned hotels in the country as well as making it illegal for them to buy rum or tobacco products. Continued

Tour de Suisse with John Panzer - Tobacconists, Urs Portmann in Kreuzlingen

The Black Swann Shoppe, Tobacconist

Road to Hard Rock: Davidoff Hard Rock’s Eric Douglas

(Tobacco Business Magazine) Rather than wait to announce the new releases coming for its Avo and Camacho brands, Oettinger Davidoff opted to hold a product showcase to make a splash. To help celebrate the company’s new launches, it chose a venue that would match the excitement and innovation seen in the company’s new products: the new Davidoff of Geneva­­—Since 1911 within the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Continued

Review of Mac Baren Navy Flake

Boston Cigar Shop Turns 150

 

(Cigar Aficionado) In 1870, the U.S. had only 37 states, a population of 39 million, Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant was one year into his first presidential term and a cigar shop opened in Boston. Many things have changed in the subsequent 150 years, but L.J. Peretti Co. is still in business, selling cigars, pipes and smoker’s accessories. It’s one of the oldest cigar shops in the United States. Continued

Tobacco & Salt Museum, Tokyo

A Christmas visit to Aachen

Legacy of Service - The Danish Pipe Shop

Organization believes historic tobacco barns are worth saving

 

(The Gazette-Virginian) … Preservation Virginia, a privately funded statewide organization founded more than 100 years ago, has been working since 2009 to preserve historic tobacco barns and educate the public about their significance to Southside history.

The organization launched the Tobacco Barn Preservation Project to research two types of barns: curing barns, where tobacco was hung to dry; and pack barns, where tobacco leaves were stored until they were taken to market. Continued

Nashville's cigar-friendly Red Phone Booth harkens back to speakeasies

H. L. Mencken celebrates the end of Prohibition in the appropriate way

(Cigar Aficionado) Prohibition came early to Nashville, in 1917. Once the number four exporter of liquor in the United States, suddenly production and sales went underground. Politicians took to their illicit “clubs” along Printers Alley to make deals over whiskey and cigars, while doyennes of society had their “medicine” delivered to the back door of their Georgian mansions via taxi. The newly opened cigar-friendly Red Phone Booth in Nashville harkens back to the speakeasies of that time. Continued

Pivat Cigar Lounge featuring Romeo y Julieta Cigar Review

Ybor City Cigar Heritage Fesival 2019 | Cigar Prop

Visiting tobacconist W. Schimmel in Zutphen

Romeo & Juliet Cigar Shop Havana

Review: Silver Leaf Cigar Lounge, Fort Worth, Texas

 

(Cigar Aficionado) When you think of Fort Worth, Texas, often cowboys, boots and cattle come to mind. It is where the West begins, but with its upscale urban center of Sundance Square, it is also home to Silver Leaf Cigar Lounge, a sleek and modern place to light up. Continued