The Quarter · Canal · Uptown · New Orleans, Louisiana
When the 2015 ban came, New Orleans kept its cigar bars — a grandfathered handful where the smoke and the Sazerac still share a roof. Add the last rolling factory in Louisiana and jazz six nights a week, and no city wears the ritual more naturally.
Editor's Pick · No. 1
French Quarter · New Orleans, LA · ★4.7
A former bath house on Toulouse — marble atrium, vaulted ceilings — holding the Quarter's rarest asset: a grandfathered license to smoke and drink indoors, attached to the building itself. Domino tables in the back, allocated bourbon behind the bar, a Sazerac as the best-seller, and doors open ten in the morning to two at night, every day.
Decatur Street to Magazine Street
Live jazz and blues six nights a week, never a cover — the last place in the city to hear a band indoors with a legal cigar. A locals' living room since 1996.
Eight master rollers, thirty thousand cigars a month, six house blends, and a museum of the city's tobacco century — the last factory in Louisiana, working in the window.
A Dominican family legacy on the Canal corner — house hand-rolled cigars, a full whiskey bar, and deep leather built for a long game.
The Quarter's quiet overachiever: a thousand open boxes behind exposed brick, a couch that grew into a clubhouse, and the neighborhood's best marks.
The Magazine Street tobacconist since 1997 — an indoor lounge in the old Orphanage Building and a patio shaded by hundred-year-old live oaks.