South Beach

Ok so I am finally in Miami. South Beach to be exact. Let me first say I am sorry to Miami and the entire state of Florida for bringing this crappy cold weather with me from Houston. Now back to our regularly scheduled program. So far not very impressed with the cigar scene here in South Beach. There are four shops around my hotel and you can only smoke in one of them. Deco Drive Cigars has three locations and the one at 414 Lincoln Road is where I am sitting right now. Its a nice shop with a good selection a little pricey but it’s a tourist driven area and it is a “Davidoff appointed store” so it’s not surprising. It has a full bar so that doesn’t suck too badly. I’m sitting here typing smoking a Padron and drinking a Presidente beer. They also have a bunch of hookahs, seems like every bar I pass has them. Anyway, there are several cigar shops when I did a search but it turns out that they are either candy stores or head shops so I didn’t even bother going in. The Deco Drive Cigars on Ocean Drive in kind of perplexing to me. You can’t smoke in the shop and they have a nice size patio area but they don’t have any tables out there. That is so strange to me. It seems like a huge opportunity missed to me. Oh well we all do business differently. Thankfully I always bring my smokes with me and there is not a lack of outdoor patios to smoke at. I hope to make it over to Little Havana tomorrow night. We will see how it goes and how expensive the cab ride is going to be. New Orleans is my next scheduled trip and i should have plenty to report from there. That’s all for now as always any comments or suggestions on a shop I should check out in my travels drop me a line Sean@lasvegashtv.com.

See Ya

Sean

Update. I was just talking to the manager of the Lincoln Road store and he was telling me that they can’t smoke inside or outside of the Ocean Drive store because it is residential above the shop. The smoking Nazis strike again!!!