Galleria · The Heights · Upper Kirby · Houston, Texas
Energy money and good taste, occasionally in the same room. Houston builds its lounges to scale — one of the largest humidors in the country, a members' floor you could get lost on, and a handful of genuine full-bar cigar bars in a city where the ordinance keeps most rooms BYOB. Room to settle in, and then some.
Editor's Pick · No. 1
Galleria · Houston, TX · ★4.8
Fifteen years in, Stogies is the room the rest of the city measures against — one of the largest humidors in Houston, past forty-five hundred facings, and two lounges under one roof: a public room to walk into and a members-only floor that never closes. BYOB, per Houston's rules, so bring the bottle and stay as long as the humidor keeps tempting you. This is what an institution looks like.
The Galleria to the Heights
One of the rare licensed full-bar cigar bars in the city — craft cocktails and a kitchen, not a cooler in the corner. Private rooms, lockers, live entertainment, and doors open to 2 a.m.
The "larger than you'd expect" made literal: eight thousand square feet, a five-thousand-foot members' lounge, a library with twin fireplaces, and cedar lockers. Houston's most ambitious room.
A speakeasy-style members' lounge with a full bar, hand-crafted cocktails, DJs nightly and a live band on Wednesdays. Private rooms, lockers, walk-ins welcome, open to 2 a.m.
A Black-owned lounge near the Medical Center with a service-first reputation the reviews keep returning to. Two cigar rooms, a large walk-in humidor, and ventilation people actually notice.
Voted the city's best cigar bar by the Houston Press, and it plays the part: leather recliners, a big fireplace, game tables, and the easy feel of a neighborhood room you settle into for the afternoon.