places to puff on a cigar without anyone whinging Sick of objections to your 'smelly cigars'? There are plenty of places where you can suck that stogie in peace. David Tang's Cohiba Cigar Divan stocks 15 brands in 40 sizes ($35 to $5,400). Regulars can store their stash in a walk-in humidor on the premises. A second divan will open in the Sheraton hotel this month. 10 am - 9 pm; Sunday, noon - 6 pm. G/F, Mandarin Hotel, 5 Connaught Road. Call 2522-0111.
For entertainment while you puff, try the Chater Lounge where live music is performed between 4 pm and 12.30 am. 10 am - 1 am. Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 3 Connaught Road. Call 2877-6666. A younger crowd can be found at the Davidoff divan at Kowloon's newly reopened Hot Gossip nightclub. Membership is $6,888 a year and includes $2,500 of cigar coupons and free entry for five people. 6 pm - 3 am. 2/F-3/F, 100 Canton Road. Call 2956-3383.
Cigar-smoking is frowned upon in the Conrad's Nicholini's and Brasserie on the Eighth restaurants but positively encouraged in the Pacific Bar linking the two. Ten cigar varieties and 40 cognacs are available. 11 am -3 pm, 5 pm - 1 am, closed Sunday lunchtimes. 8/F, Conrad International, Pacific Place 2. Call 2521-3838. Look out for two new cigar bars in Central. The China Bar, opening this month in Lan Kwai Fong, will have a wine and cigar bar on its second floor, while Silk Strands in Tun Wo Lane, opening in December, will have a cigar room resembling a Shanghai opium den.
