Stogies

Michael is very knowledgable and will help you find a cigar that fits your taste. They carry some rare beauties like the Alpha Absinthe Infused by Alpha Cigar Company.

Fun place to grab a stogie. It enhances the entire experience of wandering around North Beach and the Pier/​Wharf. We tried the Nicaraguan.

My daughter gave me 3 cigars from Stogies for Christmas. I was unfamiliar with the label so I looked it up on the internet. I discovered that Stogies only sells their brand. Ostensibly, they grow their own tobacco and roll their own cigars. I’m doubtful that’s actually true but whatever.
I smoked the John Wayne signature #49 this afternoon. $ 10.95. A bit pricey but not a bad smoke. Very mild. Not much info on the website but the wrapper appears to be a Conneticut wrapper. My impressions: subtle spicy flavor. Nice aroma, excellent even burn. Overall not very complex. Smooth. A bit bland but not in a bad way. I smoked it to the label and found it to be a surprisingly pleasant afternoon smoke. It was very mild from start to finish. I give the cigar three stars. I’ll be back to review the other two cigars soon. Cheers.

What makes a decent cigar?
I don’t know, but Laurence Fishburne was gracing the cover of this month’s Cigar Aficionado.
You might not find the best cigars here, but they do come with wooden matches, which is always a plus.
What makes a decent Sunday? Coffee and a cigar. Too bad doing these in public makes you look like a complete tool. I’ve come to terms with that.

Cool little place on the warf. We were walking by and spotted the large cigar sticking out of the building (see attached picture).
The person working in there only asked us what we were looking for. I noticed that 95% of the sticks in there were their own brand. They have cigars from Nicaragua, Honduras and Cuban seed with many different vitolas. They also are not affiliated nor do they have any other stores.
They have apparently been growing tobacco on their own farms for 17 years now.
We didn’t buy anything in there as it seemed quite humid in there and the guy behind the desk wasn’t very friendly.

The main guy was really nice when I came in. He checked my ID and wished me a happy birthday (it was my 18^th) and he educated me on everything Cigar related. Sold me a pack of Al Capone Cognac Dipped Cigarillos and gave me a bunch of free boxes of matches. Awesome well kept store and nice management! Will defiantly return next time I am in San Francisco!

Ran in here real quick to grab some cigars while we were up in SF. The selection is decent enough and they have a good range of flavors for the ladies out there who like flavors.
I didn’t have much time, so I basically just told the guy at the counter who I was shopping for and their tastes and he was FANTASTIC in getting me the best options for them.
With my limited time, he explained to me three options: the most popular, the lightest for the ladies and a heavier one for the men. He was great about asking if I needed them cut and included matches for us too since I was in a hurry.
Needless to say, the relatives enjoyed their night !

The guy at the counter, Very cool to talk to, helped me pick out a nice maduro.
This was the only cigar shop I tried while in SF, but for its location, and helpful friendliness of the guy, I give it a 4, would come back here!

The gentleman staffing the store was very nice, but that not withstanding, this review is about the cigars themselves. The house brand cigars are reportedly made in the DR in «their own factory». This is of course ridiculous, but I will say that the initial impression is one of a well made stick. Nice cubano wrapper, figurado roll, well made. Unfortunately the smoking experience is another matter. The draw is very tight and the taste is abysmal. Not a cigar worth $ 5 much less the $ 12 you will pay.
In summary, avoid these cigars as they are poor at any price.

Awful cigar! Asked the guy if he had anything like one of my favorite cigars. He told me their cigars were their own brand and pointed me to a cigar he said I’d like. $ 11.95. Smoked it later and it was awful. Over priced and tasted like a very cheap cigar. I was hesitant about buying a store brand cigar in a tourist area and am sorry I did. FYI, I like to smoke Partagas, Hoya de Nicaraguas, de Aromas.

I have passed this place up a few times, but on this trip I decided to give them a shot.
My first clue that this might be a bad idea was the fact that none of the cigars were humidified and the store was not kept at a constant 70ish degrees. All the «house brand» are just stored on shelves, individually wrapped in cellophane.
After some trepidation, I purchased a #33 house brand. The guy working there was friendly, and seemed knowledgeable enough; but I got a bad feeling when I told him I was in the mood for a medium bodied cigar and he recommended the #33 by saying «It smokes like a Partagas».
Really? What kind of Partagas?
But whatever, I didn’t push it. He said that all the house brand are hand-​rolled from tobacco grown on their private plantation. Now, I know how most «house brand» cigars are actually just purchased by the stores from someone else’s plantation (who services multiple customers as well as usually selling their own name brand cigars) and tagged with a private wrapper, so I was excited to give this a try. I gave it a cursory sniff and it smelled on the robust side of medium, so I shelled out $ 11 and brought it home.
The stick lit nice and evenly, which is about the only good thing I can say about it. It was so tightly rolled that the draw was incredibly difficult. The flavor profile was also definitely closer to robust than medium. Between the hard draw and the bolder-​than-​requested flavor, it was literally not worth smoking.
I smoke a fair amount of cigars of all different price and «quality» levels, and I didn’t even get to the ¼ mark before putting this one out.
The only reason this doesn’t get One Star is because what residual flavor I did get wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t what I asked for, and it definitely was not as good a stick as «advertised».

One of my favorite memories was here. Before my dad decided to abandon his daughters, we came here once and had a cigar while sitting out in front on the rocking chairs they used to have. We just sat there, smoked and people watched. It was a wonderful day and memory.
The rocking chairs are gone now and so is my dad.
Now my husband and I come here and have been a few times. I do enjoy the occasional stogie. I personally like when the woman is working rather than the guys who work here. Their knowledgeable and ready to give you advice.
This time around I had a Rum flavored cigar. My husband had a smaller regular stogie. The Rum was really good, it actually tasted more like Butterscotch than Rum. The Vanilla is good but I like the Rum now better.
We usually make it a point to buy a cigar here if we are down by the pier. Then we walk around smoking them. It also keeps the public at bay. People don’t want to get to close to you with a billow of cigar smoke coming out of you.

Great cigars can be found at Stogies. I only like sweet tasting cigars and this place has quite a bit of them.
The staff has always been super helpful.
If you like sweet cigars they have a cigar wrapped in sugar cane. It is by far my favorite cigar of all time.
Prices are very reasonable here as well.

I used to smoke only expensive cigars, like Romeo and Julieta, Monte Cristo, … When I was in SF on business I tried a Stoies Stogies cigar — it was the «Fisherman’s Wharf 2 year aged.» I like it BETTER than the expensive «brand names» cigars I had been smoking! Now I order them by the bundle every month. Great little cigar store!
They also had a great selection of humidors, lighters and ashtrays. I even bought a Sopranos picture with an actual cigar in the frame!

Mediocre private label cigars. Do yourself a favor and go to a real cigar store like Grant’s or Sherlock’s.

The mere whiff of cigar smoke makes me nauseous, and if I’m exposed to it for an extended period of time, I won’t be a pretty sight. I wandered in here only because I was in seach of a gift for a stogie-​sucking friend who has everything. My ignorance made me feel vulnerable, but my concerns were assuaged by the seemingly knowledgeable salesman, whose suggestions of lesser-​priced options convinced me I wasn’t being taken for a ride. Obviously he didn’t lead me astray, because my buddy said it was the best present I’d ever given him. So much for the antique brass samovar I bought him in Jerusalem.

Very knowledgeable, staff good cigars tried their 7 year aged cigar, burnt well, drew well, had tons of flavor, looking into mail ordering from them now, it is a shame that good cigar shops like this are a rarity where I live, NYC, that does not charge you a arm and a leg for mediocre products.4 stars for no wooden matches. I don’t like to mess the flavor of the tobacco with paper matches.