For vendors, exhibitors & crews · 15 minutes from the Kentucky Expo Center

Cigars After the NSRA Street Rod Nationals

One of the biggest street rod gatherings in the country rolls into the Kentucky Exposition Center every August — thousands of cars and the people who build, sell, and love them. When the gates close, give your customers, your vendors, or your crew a place to land. Reserve our private upstairs lounge, fifteen minutes across the river, and trade the heat and the noise for a good chair and a good cigar.

The private upstairs VIP cigar lounge at The Office Cigar Lounge in New Albany, IN

Kentucky Expo Center · August

NSRA Street Rod Nationals Louisville

  • When Each August — the first weekend (August 7–9 in 2026; dates shift year to year)
  • Show Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, KY
  • Our room The Office Cigar Lounge — 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150 · 15 minutes from the KEC

The Street Rod Nationals is one of the NSRA's flagship events, and the Louisville stop fills the Exposition Center grounds with tens of thousands of cars, builders, and aftermarket vendors. It's a hot, busy, all-day affair — which is exactly why a cool, quiet room to land in at the end of the day is worth its weight in gold.

The After-Show Move for Vendors & Crews

If you're vending at the Nationals, the floor is where the sales happen — but the loyalty gets built after the gates close, when you can actually sit down with your best customers. A hotel bar is loud and full of the same crowd you just left. We're a different kind of room: a premium cigar lounge fifteen minutes across the river in New Albany, Indiana, with a door you can close behind your group.

Maybe it's a customer-appreciation night for the folks who buy your parts every year. Maybe it's just the crew, finally off their feet after three days in the August sun. Either way, the upstairs lounge is the kind of place a good day at the show turns into a great night you'll all remember.

Your Own Private Floor

Book the upstairs and the entire second floor is yours for the night — fully private, doors closed, no walk-in traffic. That includes:

We keep the focus on cigars and good company. Plenty of groups bring their own food to enjoy alongside their cigars — just ask us how it works.

Plan your Nationals night

Lock in Your Date Before the Show Fills the City

Nationals weekend draws a big crowd to Louisville, and our private room books up fast. Pick your night now and we'll have it ready — from group size to a flight of cigars matched to your crowd.

Getting here

Fifteen Minutes From the Kentucky Expo Center

An easy ride for the whole group — straight up I-264 and over the Sherman Minton Bridge, or I-265 to State Street (Exit 1), turn right and head up the hill. 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150. Free parking out front. Hours & map →