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The Couches
Leather, well-worn
Two rooms of leather couches and chairs, broken in by ten winters of company. No barstools-as-furniture; no design-magazine seating. Sit down. Stay down.
In 2015, Brian Alati took over the old Village Cigar Emporium — and the first thing he did was empty the room.
He gutted it. Walls down to the studs, floors up, cases out. What had been a tobacco shop with a few chairs in the back became something else entirely — a proper lounge, built from scratch with one idea in mind: a place worth staying.
Today, The Original Cigar & Bar is the only full-service cigar lounge in the Mt. Washington Valley. Walk in off White Mountain Highway, past the green door, and the room does the rest of the work — leather couches, low light, a walk-in humidor on one side and an honest bar on the other.
Four 55" HDTVs along the wall for the games that matter. A state-of-the-art air purification system that does its job so quietly you forget it's there. And a chair — yours, eventually — that knows your shape by the second visit.
“We didn't build a tobacco shop. We built a room you'd want to spend a Tuesday in.”
— Brian Alati, Proprietor