Posted on 02/25/2015 2:08:00 PM PST by BBell
A French Quarter cigar bar's battle over state and city liquor permits has struck a major chord among New Orleans policy makers and civic leaders.
Councilwoman Nadine Ramsey wants to create a new category in the zoning code -- called a "tobacco retail business" -- to keep La Habana Hemingway Cigar Bar on Toulouse Street in operation.
But critics say that doing so could undermine the impending citywide smoking ban by exempting more drinking establishments from it and also impact the Quarter's long-standing prohibition on new cocktail lounges in commercial zones.
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Or buried not too far. Proofread damn it.
LOL
I might have tossed my cookie once or twice, when I was in my twenties, at Carry Nations in Los Gatos, California...
We use to start at a bar called the “Black Watch”, a Scottish bar that offers an old standard that goes back decades called the “Kamikaze”.
After a few of those and stopping at other bars on the way to Carry Nations, you are going to need a seeing eye dog to get home...
I didn’t know there was a saloon named after her. The old hag would not have liked that.
I was strolling around the cemetery in the dark looking for ghosts. Did not locate any.
Oh yeah, the place is awesome and that gigantic wooden bar is beautiful.
A friend of mine had the bar replicated and installed in the north wing of her mansion.
I have no idea where that is but, looking at the properties on the pic, it seems to be from “New Bedford”
Her mansion? You must know higher level people than I do.
Private Jet Class
Foiled again! I binged Black Watch Scottish Pub and that popped up.
Foiled again! I binged Black Watch Scottish Pub and that popped up.
Twice! Even...
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