A year ago, I visited one of my first cigar stores ever: Baltimore’s Cross Street Tobacco. A very laid back place, it was quiet and friendly. This past week I ended up back in Baltimore and decided to visit it again. I went to Ropewalk Tavern, one of only two restaurants in Maryland where you […]
Category: Cigar Store Reviews
San Francisco: The city of hills..
As I mentioned, a couple of weeks ago I was in San Francisco. I was there to do a training course before my company’s big conference. Along with me were about 4 other colleagues. One in particular, D, is a cigar aficionado. He tends to travel internationally more than me (him being a bachelor and […]
Cigar Store Reviews: Mickey’s Only Cigar Haunt
This past week I had to head to Disney World in Orlando. Everything that I had to do for work was at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. The resort is designed so that you really never have to leave the park as it has everything that anyone would want. Because I knew the part […]
La Rosa Cubana Cigars and the Cuban Poll
One of the things about getting older is that while you may feel a lot younger, your body has this awful tendency to not feel so much so. I spent the better part of yesterday visiting various doctors’ offices, getting poked, prodded and queried. Once they were done with me, they sent me on my […]
A Sunday in NYC’s Little Chinatown/Little Italy
So this weekend I’m on my own as my girlfriend is out of town. I started last night by enjoying a sweet Ashton Aged Maduro #10. I got to enjoy a Forty Creek Barrel Select over the rocks with a splash of cranberry and watched some pretty cheesy ’80s action movies, including the RoboCop trilogy. […]
Cigar Store Review: OK Cigars (Soho, Manhattan, NY)
Today, I sit in my home office, enjoying a AVO Domaine #20 I picked up yesterday. The temperature in NYC had dipped well below the freezing mark (F) into negative numbers, making it hard to enjoy the sun and sometimes harder to enjoy a cigar on the breeze. But it does make it good weather […]
Charleston, SC — Tinderbox and the Enchantment of the City
I had arrived in Charleston, sans luggage. This about freaked me out since I had about 10 nice cigars in there that I wanted to review — never mind that I had clothes for the week (I’m here until Saturday morning). I checked into my hotel and got a shuttle into the city core. One […]
Cigar Store Review: Baltimore’s Cross Street Tobacco
In addition to a review of their cigars, I figured I’d do a review of the store. One day, when I retire, I’d like to run a store like Cross Street Tobacco. It’s a place where you can easily go in, pick out a nice cigar and sit and enjoy. It’s very down home and […]