Midtown · SoHo · The Village · New York, New York
When New York banned indoor smoking in 2003, a handful of cigar bars were written out of the ban — a fixed list that can shrink but never grow. These are the survivors worth your evening.
Editor's Pick · No. 1
Midtown · New York, NY · ★4.6
Twenty-foot ceilings, a stone fireplace, hand-carved eighteenth-century bookcases — and on Saturday nights an eleven-piece orchestra swinging Sinatra, the longest-running cabaret in the city. Steps from Carnegie Hall, it's everything the grandfathered license protects: cocktails, cigars, indoors, legal.
Midtown to the Financial District
Speakeasy deco with a house-brand humidor, a whisky wall from Kentucky to Kyoto, and a real kitchen — the rarest amenity in New York smoke.
The first cigar bar in New York and the oldest still standing — a candlelit library pouring serious Scotch since 1990.
Engraved lockers, a full dinner menu, and thirty years of famous names in the smoke. Membership optional — the room is open to anyone dressed for it.
The old Cigar Inn on 2nd Avenue, polished up: deep humidors, nine screens, midnight hours, and a bring-your-own-bottle pour with glasses and ice waiting.
New York's oldest family tobacconist — house blends rolled under the same name since 1910, now in its fourth generation, with the Rex Club upstairs.