This is one of the coolest spots in Vegas. Â I'm an avid live music fan and this place does it right, and four nights a week (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday). Â Great ambiance, nice patio, great staff. Â The cigar selection is wonderful and the bar is stocked full of great scotch as well everything else you could probably think of. Â The last time I went I was with a girl that was hesitant about the smoke and whether her hair would stink the next day (women), but she said its actually well ventilated and the smoke was minimal. Â La Casa is definitely a place you could find me at a few times a week.
Review Source:Good selection of cigars, and reasonably priced. Â
Free music is great, but way too loud to have a conversation - they need to decide if they are a dance club or a casual meeting spot.
The cocktail service is completely in shambles. Â I've been there a few times now, and they let you sit with empty drink glasses forever. Â The "servers" all have to make their own drinks. Â Half of them have no bar tending experience at all and look at you like you have 3 head if you order anything more complicated than a beer.
Then there's the "manager". Â A young woman who obviously has no service experience at all. Â She knows her cigars, but spends more time smoking them than making sure her customers are taken care of. Â I asked her 3 times about the membership, but she was too busy sitting outside smoking a cigar to even hand me the paperwork. Â
All in all, not the kind of place I would chose to spend my time or money.
LIVE Jazz was what brought us in! Walking around Tivoli Village realizing how small this "mall" really is (how disappointing) we were drawn in by the sounds of a LIVE Jazz band... Wait, LIVE and Jazz in the same sentence?! Yessir!!!
I've never known what the difference between a good or bad cigar, but leave it to my husband to teach me! I've NEVER come across a cigar that I was a fan of, NEVER. As I've told my hubs, "They all taste like Butt!!" and his response is always "You've tasted butt?!?! Eww!!" Ugh, booger. But he selected one Padrón, an anniversary series... Again-- never came across a cigar I liked-- 'til tonight. I now know about that taste that my hubs speaks of!
Tonight's lesson: my new fondness of cigars + LIVE (capitalized bc the only other LIVE Jazz I've found is at the Cosmo) Jazz Band found locally + the lovely ladies on staff = our new Friday night hangout!!
Why the star deduction? Here it is:
One person, per use-- UNISEX restroom. Call me a "potty snob" but I find it pretty damn uncomfortable going in as a person of the other sex is coming out. I'm the only female in my household and growing up my brother and I shared a bathroom... As clean as my guys are, boys are kinda gross. As much as I want to think that the other sex washes their hands, wipes down the seat and doesn't adjust the jewels all nice and raw, I know damn well that they don't. Don't get me wrong, females are disgusting in their own right, but as nice, clean and easy on the schnozzola, it's just an uncomfortable situation for me.
Love,
The Potty Snob ;)
We paid Tivoli Village a visit for Dishcrawl's Vegas debut afterwards we went over to La Casa Cigar Lounge for a smoke and nightcap. It has a huge properly humidified humidor with a good selection that is reasonably priced. I just love the smell. I could camp out in there all night. Instead, my husband tore me away and we went out on the back patio. It was a nice place relax for an evening. Midnight came much too soon. I see more evenings there in our future. It would only be better with a good beer selection. In the meantime, wine and whiskey will do.
Review Source:We walked around Tivoli after lunch to see what's new and were to surprised to see a cigar shop.
We browsed their humidor which is rather large and filled. I've never seen that many Rocky Patels before, theres a few brands I've not seen in other shops and they have their own house cigars. I don't pretend to be a expert, but I think I dabble enough to see that things I have had, they weren't hiked up crazy and were prices I was okay paying. We ended up getting something we haven't really seen elsewhere, Kristoff Original Maduro which ended up being fantastic for $10. Seriously would consider that as a good everyday.
The bartender was beyond nice from the time we walked in, explaining about the place and their features. We decided to have a drink and she was more than helpful in that department and let us look at bottles and check them out and even let us sample something we haven't really seen before. We settled on Balvenie Carribean Cask which was I believe $14. She thought about little things like asking if we would want water and we wanted to sit outside. It was a bust as it was too windy where the smoke just blew in our faces so we went inside. When we were inside she asked hows the music level and if it was something we liked. Most people don't think about stuff like that. It was Top 40 pop which wasn't exactly our thing and she let the BF change the stations. It was really cool big plus for me since we were the only ones in the main room at that time. It was early so it wasn't the most bumping time.
They do live music as it gets later though. Reggae Weds. ($4 martinis 6-9), Contemporary Ladies Night Thurs. ( $4 red win 6-9) , Best Jazz + Contemporary New Orleans Style Fri. , Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Sat. (apparently cast from the show Rat Pack). Their hours are a bit flexible right now, but on nights with music sometimes they can be open rather late.
I really don't hang out in cigar lounges, but this one felt comfortable enough that we decided to hang out instead of take a cigar home. I'm a fan and definitely will be back.
Sticks are comparably priced to other shops and drinks are alright as well. Â I need to give it another try as some event was happening and there was a bit too much hip hop and rap blasting from a DJ and a huge crowd for my taste. Â But friends who frequent it said it's usually laid back and relaxing with more a Rat Pack soundtrack and vibe. Â Nice to have a place to go enjoy a cocktail and cigar that's open later and not on the Strip.
Review Source:I've been to this place half a dozen times, largely because I had high hopes for it. We need a good cigar lounge in the area to replace the long gone Cigar Bar at the Rampart. But this place short pours the drinks. They claim to pour 1.5 ounces, but you're lucky to get enough to wet the bottom of the glass. At Onyx Bar in Red Rock they pour closer to 2 ounces for less money than this place charges for just a thimble full of booze. This has been brought to the manager's attention more than once, and they have refused to change their stingy pouring methods. (They use a 1 oz. jigger, fill it not quite to the top and call that one ounce, then fill it again to the half way point and call it half an ounce. Anyone who took high school geometry will know this is a clever way to make sure the customer gets no more than about an ounce.)
Apparently people who drink scotch and cognac have noticed. We were there Tuesday night and they issued last call at 8:45 because they didn't have enough customers. What sort of cigar lounge closes at 8:45? We passed on the last call and went to Onyx just as La Casa was denying service to two more customers that had just walked in. In a blink of an eye they just lost four customers because they didn't want to stay open. This place doesn't act like it wants to be in business.
If you go to this place, stick to bottled beer if you value your cash. Meanwhile, my friends and I will do our cigar and fine whiskey drinking somewhere else where you get a legitimate pour at a decent price, and they won't run you out at 9 pm.
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