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Voodoo Lounge
7-9
Cranbourne Street WC 2H7AG
020 7434 0606 |
| The lift shaft, with its hanging chains,
looks curiously apt as you enter Voodoo Lounge. A few flights of stairs and the
ultra violet light casts its eerie spell as you select from the mirror or flame
bar. In both the windows are covered with billowing white drapes of muslin
consistency. If the spirits weren't with me, they were certainly close at hand.
Cigars in each bar are kept in well stocked box humidors, but the main stash is
up in the Cigar Lounge, on the same floor as the member's bar. Here, either side
of the fireplaceare chest-high humidors. If you want a cigar, then this is where
to come. The same level of service prevails whether you obtain your cigar at the
bar or in this room, but there is a far greater sense of occasion up here.
The lift shaft, with its hanging chains, looks curiously apt as you enter
Voodoo Lounge.
Voodoo Lounge is one of the growing band of non-traditional smoking bars. The
bar is big on cocktails and the cigars are equally serious. "American customers
tend to go for the bigger sizes," according to the manager, Freddie, "but to be
honest we get all sorts. Our customers are all over 25, young professionals some
of them are regular smokers, some
have never smoked a cigar before in their life. The new converts often head
for the Cuaba, there is something of the Groucho Marx in all of us I suppose.
The City boys head for the Cohibas and the more discerning probably are more
inclined towards the Montecristos and Romeo y Julieta."
"The great thing about cigar smoking these days," according to Freddie who
speaks as a fellow lover of the weed, "is that most regular smokers swap about.
After all, what is the point of having a choice like this if you don't make use
of it."
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