Fri, Oct 23 · 9:00 PMOur story
Simply the best
Rick Collins, The Guv’nor, an enjoyer of fine cigars and single malts, first looked into opening a cigar lounge and bar in 2005. In 2023, nearly twenty years later, he went home to London on a sabbatical and visited the ten best cigar lounges in the city.
He brought back two ideas. There is no reason a cigar lounge and bar cannot have the most amazing client service. And cigar lounges were stuck in the past, with their dark interiors, brown furniture and obligatory Scarface and Clint Eastwood pictures.
So Rick and his partner, Deb, reimagined the cigar lounge and sports bar here in San Juan Capistrano: fine whiskeys, bourbons and craft cocktails, cigar events, whiskey and tequila tastings, weekend music, and enough TVs to show every game.
“We have the passion and drive to ensure that Winston’s will be the poster child for how cigar lounges and sports bars should look.”Rick Collins, The Guv’nor













