Two Brothers Open 500-Cigar Lounge Inside Former Bank Branch
A cigar lounge with roughly 500 cigars and a full spirits list has opened in a renovated bank building on Grand Rapids' West Side after years of planning.
Two brothers have opened a cigar lounge on the West Side, tucked inside a former bank branch they spent years renovating. The spot carries around 500 different cigars plus a range of spirits — a combination that's rare in the city. It's the latest signal that the West Side keeps pulling in new, owner-operated businesses.
Two brothers have finally cut the ribbon on their cigar lounge inside a former bank branch on Grand Rapids' West Side, a project that took years of planning and construction. The space reuses a piece of neighborhood commercial history rather than starting from scratch — one of the more interesting adaptive-reuse bets on the near West Side in a while, where former storefronts and small commercial buildings have been steadily turning into restaurants, bars, and shops.
Inside, the humidor carries roughly 500 different cigars alongside a full range of spirits, a pairing that's tougher to find in Grand Rapids than you might expect. Most places in town lean one way or the other — a bar with a limited humidor, or a smoke shop with little to pour. A dedicated lounge built around both, in a purpose-renovated room with the ceilings and scale a bank building tends to bring, is a genuinely different format for the city.
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The brothers say the years of work came down to getting the buildout right — including the kind of ventilation and licensing setup a cigar lounge needs to operate as a proper venue rather than a back-room setup. For the West Side, it's the newest reason to head over, joining a stretch of the city that's been quietly filling in.
