Going out there for the week pretty soon. Any good cigar shops to visit. Preferable friendly ones where they let you sit down and smoke. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Liberty Tobacco on Clairmont Mesa, exit east off the 805.
Good selection, sitting room and good people, the only thing missing is the alcohol.
If you like beer you can sit out side at a place called O' Brian's and light up with a good ESB or Porter. To get to O’Brien’s continue east on Clairmont Mesa and after two or three lights take a right on Convoy. O’Brien’s is up about a mile on your right in a strip mall with a couple of Oriental restaurants. If you cross Balboa Ave you've gone a block or two too far.
Since you are staying in downtown San Diego, I would recommend your checking out 1 of 2 places: Cesar's Cigars and Wine bar on 4th Street has a decent selection of cigars, plasma TV's, and wine & beer selection.....up the street, also on 4th and part of Horton Plaza, is a place called Habana Cafe--same set up (cigars, plasma, wine & beer)....you can smoke inside both places and they should be no longer than a good 10 minute (15 minute maximum) walk from your hotel.
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In my brief 2 years of smoking cigars, two of the most pleasurable were in San Diego. I stopped at Cesar's (if that's the shop in the Gaslamp district) with my wife and had a smoke outside. The Padres were in town, and I enjoyed a great coffee and cigar while watching the crowd walk to the game. Very nice! The other was outside a coffee shop in La Jolla. It was early evening, and the shop was getting ready to close, so I had another coffee and cigar in the outdoor seats. A group of 3 couples walked by, and one of the men "faked" coughed as he walked by. I decided to let him live. About 5 minutes later, my wife points to a guy walking toward us. 60' ish, crew cut, short sleeves, a couple of tattoos and a stub of a cigar in his mouth. His look screamed "retired navy". Anyway, he said to me that this looked like his kind of place to hang for a while while his wife shopped nearby. We got to talking, and it turned out he lived in La Jolla half the year and in Phoenix the other half. As the conversation continued, he told me his wife worked Republican state politics in Arizona. As chance would have it, a childhood friend had just run for State Attorney General there. We swapped stories about the guy (he and I had grown up in Philly). It was a perfect example of why I like the cigar scene so much....other cigar smokers are never strangers for long...
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