Moved up to Raleigh North Carolina

[JPark3]

On 9/3/2025 at 10:51 AM, JDoughty said:

Never tried them, but I definitely will next time I'm headed that far up! Bit of a commute from Raleigh. Pipe and Pint has some other locations near there, don't they? 

They do! Greensboro is the one I've been to, but I believe they have 3 or 4 locations in total.

[Allroz]

On 9/2/2025 at 12:14 PM, JDoughty said:

Capitol Smoke has a couple of chairs, but I rarely go there because parking is straight up horrible downtown and that particular store leans pretty heavy on the vape and bong stuff. Havana Deluxe is a nice place to smoke and has a superb collection of top shelf and rare liquor, but they are squarely in the middle of the party district on Glenwood which I much prefer to avoid. Parking is horrendous, the noise and crowds are awful, and I don't trust leaving my vehicle anywhere near there with all the drunken idiots careening around. 

If you mean Virgin Cigars on a very different stretch of Glenwood, it is very nice but the annual membership model doesn't make sense for me personally because I don't smoke much if at all from mid-September through the end of December due to bowhunting. Also not in February if I'm participating in urban archery season. Gives my cigars more time to age and conserves the collection. I do break my cigar fast every so often during that time if I've just gotten a deer and I know I'm not going back out to my stands very soon, but there is a lot of decontaminating involved. 

Thanks, I forgot the name - Virgin cigars is it? Completely agree on Havana - love the spot, hate the parking.