Beverly Hills · Downtown · Melrose · Los Angeles, California
LA keeps its best rooms quiet — an invitation-only club up an unmarked alley off Canon Drive, a soaring humidor downtown, a Melrose patio twenty-five years deep. California law splits the field between tobacco lounges that don't pour and private clubs that do, and a good terrace settles the rest. A surprising number of these rooms know exactly what they're doing.
Editor's Pick · No. 1
Beverly Hills, CA · Members-only
The national benchmark for the high-end cigar club, and the reason the others exist. Open since 1995, hidden up an unmarked alley off Canon Drive, the Grand Havana Room is invitation-only — a glassed-in humidor with some three hundred fifty private lockers whose nameplates read like a Hollywood roster, a full bar, food service, and a patio. Most readers won't simply walk in. That's rather the point.
Downtown to the Valley to the coast
The standout modern DTLA room, near the arena — a soaring, high-ceiling public space, a walk-in humidor of exclusive brands, staff with sommelier certificates, a patio, and doors open to midnight.
One of the few LA rooms with a genuine full bar and legal indoor smoking. Cuban-born ownership, a gentleman's-club upstairs of leather armchairs, a serious whiskey program, and doors open to 2 a.m.
Twenty-five years on the Melrose strip, with one of the city's deepest boutique and small-batch selections — hand-picked by the owner — and a street-front patio to smoke it on, next door to the Improv.
The discretion pick: an upscale private room with serious air filtration, four big screens, a small-plates kitchen and a focused cocktail list — and a rooftop with open-air skyline views.
The Valley institution: a five-hundred-square-foot walk-in humidor with hundreds of ready-to-smoke cigars, a comfortable customer lounge, and the long hours that make it many a regular's default.
The coast's entry — a warm, regulars-driven room in Belmont Shore with indoor and outdoor seating, a Nicaraguan-leaning boutique humidor, screens for the game, and annual lockers to make it yours.