My spouse and I dined at Leaf Cigar Bar most recently on a Sunday afternoon in late September 2015, although we have dined there several times previously since the establishment opened in 2012. Leaf is open daily for lunch and dinner. Reservations are available via telephone or using the Open Table reservation system.
This restaurant
is a bit difficult to locate, so be sure to create a map or use your GPS. It is
located in an industrial park area, which may confuse prospective guests.
We have only ever
dined on the patio of this restaurant, although we have stepped inside to speak
to the hostess and to use the restrooms. Because we are not smokers, it would
be difficult for us to enjoy a meal indoors, even though the restaurant does
what it can with its exhaust system. Indoors, in addition to the bar/dining
room area, is a lounge area, where smokers can relax in Barcaloungers while
they enjoy smokes and drinks. The third part to the building accessible to
patrons is the Famous Smoke Shop, where you can purchase cigars and other
smoking paraphenalia. (The rear of the building contains warehousing for the
business and is not open to the public.) The restaurant seems to have designed
the patio to accommodate plenty of outdoor dining, because the concrete patio
features many square tables, each with four chairs, that can be joined together
for larger parties. A burgundy umbrella tops each table, and the patio itself
is surrounded by low plants and foliage that buffer it from the parking lot.
When Leaf first
opened, the restaurant offered different menus for lunch and dinner, but
currently, it appears that a more all-day menu is offered, although a few items
are not available until after 4:00 pm (such as the meatloaf, which did not make
sense to us because a meatloaf sandwich is available anytime). We attempted to
order an appetizer called the “Cuban Cigars”, but our waitress informed us that
the restaurant was sold out of them (pork, ham, Swiss, and a pickle wrapped in
a spring roll). We wondered whether the “Cuban Cigars” were not a housemade
item, because the regular Cuban sandwich was still available, which used many
of the same ingredients. Instead, we shared the calamari as an appetizer,
followed by the cheesesteak (served “wit or witout” Whiz) and the “Bat Out of
Hell” (sandwich made with bacon-wrapped meatloaf). We shared a pumpkin raisin
bread pudding as a dessert, which first arrived without any housemade ice cream
as promised on the menu (and the ice cream was definitely necessary, because
the pudding was extremely dry), and overloaded with golden raisins. The menu
sections are cleverly named: “Quickies”, “The Cauldron” for soups, “Rabbit
Food” for salads, “Beefcake” for burgers (which are cooked “Bloody As Hell”,
“Burnt to a Crisp”, or “Pink and Tender”), “Pub Jobs”, “Stuck In the Middle”
(for sandwiches) and “Epic Mealtime” (entrees like the meatloaf that are
available only after 4:00 pm).
We like to sit on
the patio at Leaf, and the location provides a meandering drive from our home,
so we will return when the weather is nice.
