Our Mission.

Our main goal online is to bring you the best boutique cigar brands on the market today. Concentrating on this we will be featuring such brands as Tatuaje, La Riqueza, El Triunfador and Cabiguan. These brands are rolled in classic Cuban tradition by master rollers in Little Havana Florida as well as in Esteli, Nicaragua. Headed by maestro tobaquero Jose “Pepin” Garcia. Most of these cigars are rolled with a beautiful Cuban triple-cap and are medium to full in flavor. Also there is quite a lot of buzz surrounding Illusione Cigars. The company, which is only a few years old, was founded by Dion Giolito. The idea behind Illusione is to recreate the flavor of Nicaraguan cigars from the period before the Sandinistas took over in 1979. Illusiones are a Nicuraguan puro made in Honduras.

The Big Easy is an authorized dealer of brands such as:

• Arturo Fuente (Yes all the hard to get ones too)
• Ashton (Cabinet Maduro E.S.G. V.S.G. Heritage)
• Avo (Domaine, Maduro, Signature, X.O.)
• Brick House (Fuente/J.C. Newman)
• C.A.O. (Pronounced C-A-O not Chow or Cow)
• Camacho (Full Line)
• Casa Magna (Full Line)
• Cohiba (Sorry only the Dominican ones by General Cigar)
• Diamond Crown (Original and Maximus)
• Illusione (Full Line)
• La Aroma De Cuba (The new blend)
• La Flor Dominicana (Full Line including the Coronado and LG’s )
• La Gloria Cubana (Full Line)
• Montecristo (Full Line)
• Nub (Full Line)
• Oliva (Full Line)
• Opus X (Full Line 4 times a year)
• Padron (Yes Anniversary 1964,1926, and Limited Editions)
• Partagas (Black Label etc.)
• Punch (The usual suspects)
• Rocky Patel (Full Line)
• Romeo Y Julieta (Full Line)
• Swisher Sweets (Just Kidding)
• Tatuaje (The Best selection in Los Angeles if not the planet.)
• Villiger (Exports)
• Zino (Platinum Crown and Scepter Series)
• And many many others.
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We try to stay on the cutting edge of cigar smoking.
If we don’t have it let us know so we can get it for you.
If it’s good we want to have it.

Our Smoking Lounge.

This is a great late night hang!  One stop through the doors, past the anointed guitar wielding wooden Indian, and you realize you are about to experience nirvana meeting Havana! Inside you’re likely to find men and women enjoying fine cigars and camaraderie, far removed from the day to day worries of work and life. The Big Easy’s movie style palace neon sign is a multi colored beacon, calling all who search for a casual and friendly sanctuary to purchase and enjoy one of life’s glowing pleasures.

Opened in 1994, The Big Easy is located on Ventura Blvd. in Studio City right at the Coldwater Curve. This is a bastion of sanctity for cigar lovers. Featuring an art deco lounge for aficionados of the leaf, along with a walk-in humidor including more than 90 different brands of cigars in over 400 shapes and sizes! As Los Angeles’s hottest destination for a casual smoke. Visitors are surrounded by funky furnishings and bric-a-brac that dates from the 1920′s to the 1950′s. To age and humidify cigars, The Big Easy also has a separate storage facility with private lockers available for rent.

From Ashton to Zino, the Big Easy carries a full line of brands. If you are looking for the perfect gift for the cigar enthusiast, the Big Easy has it all. To help store your stogies, the Big Easy has an extensive selection of humidors featuring such brands as Daniel Marshal, Prometheus, Savoy, and many more. As for lighters we stock S.T. DuPont, Porsche Design, Blazer, Lotus, Brizard & Co., Prometheus, and Zippo. Other items non tobacco include a large selection of ashtrays, flasks, cigar cases, cutters and cigar themed apparel. As a full tobacconist we also blend our own pipe tobacco that is sold by the oz. and stock tins of Dunhill, Ashton, Peterson, Samual Gawith and MacBaren.

Press Reviews.

“The Big Easy, No we’re not talking New Orleans, but the retro-cool, loungy, Studio City cigar emporium. First-class service and a stellar humidor would be enough of a draw, but it also serves as a haven for a colorful rogue gallery of Southern California smoking personae. Here I keep a private locker. Yet I’m just as likely to walk through the door, snatch a Snapple from the fridge, and ask tobacconist Eric what’s smoking good? Believe me, this guy knows. Or I’ll just look at what’s in Eric’s hand and ask for one of the same. A notorious hipster, he still indulges me. If I’m buying, it might be something short and pricey, or it might be some true-burning, satin-drawing bundled beauty that these guys have unearthed. Whatever the flavor, it cures my creative-afternoon ills as well as anything with an embossed band and a double-digit price tag.”

– Taken from Cigar Aficionado Magazine

“A large neon sign above this Ventura Boulevard storefront proclaims CIGARS: in the window, a smaller neon display spells out Fine Cigars. Smoking Room. Private Humidors. Sanctuary. The latter is indeed found at the Big Easy, a comfortable, low-key lounge, decorated with funky vintage furnishings. Technically, this is a cigar store: there is no liquor license or food service, but patrons can hang out for hours chewing the fat and enjoying their smokes.”

— Taken from Cigar Aficionado Magazine