Downtown Smoking Club

Full disclosure, I have a locker here and spend a fair amount of time here. What’s not to love. A locker to store cigars and drinks, yep, it’s BYOB. There’s a brewery next door where you can get growlers of beer and bring over. A humidor stocked with cigars, as a locker holder I alternate with buying from the humidor or bringing my own. There’s a front lounge, a TV lounge, a game room, a patio outback, and sometimes a table and chairs out front where you can watch the world go by while enjoying a cigar. I go here as much for the people as the place. There’s a great crowd of regulars I met here who are friends outside the cigar bar now.

Went here for a cigar the other night. The owner, Al, stayed open late just so I could finish and we had a friendly chat. The place looks a little unfinished, but is well on its way to becoming a real cigar bar. I think so plants would add a nice touch. The place is BYOB, so if you like a nip of Scotch, bourbon or port with your cigar, just bring your favorite tipple and you can store it there. I would have liked to see a better selection of cigars (like my favorite, Rocky Patel’s The Edge…). Music would have been a nice touch. Supposedly, the place gets traffic from Cooley students, who study there, but I’m not sure if there is Wi-​Fi. I haven’t been to any other cigar places in the Lansing area, so I don’t know how this compares, but if you like a good cigar, stop in.