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Cigar & Spirits

Cigar lounge

We keep this page cigar-forward and short on purpose. A place earns its line here by selling cigars, by welcoming a smoker on its own premises, or by keeping a cellar or a whiskey room worth travelling across town for — and we say plainly which of those it is, because a member planning an evening deserves to know before he goes.

Cigar & Spirits Listings

CDM Cigars

Corona del Mar · Newport Beach

An active cigar shop, in-store and online, drawing on roughly 26 years’ experience, per its own About page. Smoking on the premises is not claimed, because the source checked does not state it.

Sells cigars

Orange County Cigars

Costa Mesa

A cigar shop and lounge. Per its own description, customers can purchase cigars and enjoy them on the premises, with seating and beverages; listing summaries describe two indoor lounges and an outdoor patio.

Sells cigars · Smoking allowed

Hi-Time Wine Cellars

Costa Mesa

Family-owned since 1957, per its own story page, with a 3,000-square-foot climate-controlled underground wine cellar and a wine bar with self-serve wine machines. It carries a cigar humidor, per Chowhound’s national wine-shop list. Smoking on the premises is not claimed.

Sells spirits · Sells cigars

Bosscat Kitchen & Libations

Newport Beach

Founded in 2014 and known for a whiskey room housing hundreds of whiskeys from Scotland, Ireland, Japan, Canada and the United States, per the firm’s own description. It does not sell cigars and no smoking is claimed.

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