Scotch and Cigars at The Beaumont
What do you do with a car park – indeed, a former garage forecourt -…
Browsing: Cigars
Cuban Chester: La Casa del Habano
Never be afraid to spread your wings and travel in search of something new, advises…
Online Cigar Auctions
Dig behind your sofa cushions – there’s a new cigar auction in town. Cigar Editor…
Cigar Chatter: Dunhill & Regius
New super blends, funky new stores, last minute festive buying – it’s been a busy…
Cigar Writer of the Year
Our Cigar Editor, Nick Hammond, wins the Spectator Cigar Writer of the Year Award 2013.…
Ten Manchester Street Hotel
Cigar Editor Nick Hammond shakes the dust of Baker Street from his brogues and samples the new menu – and cigar sampling room – at Marylebone’s No. Ten Manchester Street Hotel…
Fancy a Nightcap?
Cigar Editor Nick Hammond discovers the perfect ‘nightcap’, employs his very own cigar butler and stumbles across the ideal aide memoire for the forgetful cigarophile in your life…
Smoke, Spirits and a Garden Room
December may seem a curious time in which to launch a new menu for a…
A Cigar Dinner at The Montague
“Linen-draped table, sparkling glasses, bottles of inky wine, a pastoral outlook and a full humidor. That’s a recipe for success.” Nick ‘Monty Cristo’ Hammond dines and puffs at The Montague on the Gardens.
The Lanesborough’s Cigar Luncheon
As I sit down and reach for my napkin, a silver platter arrives before me with 12 Flor de Canos arranged clockwise upon it. I steal four o’clock with a murmur of thanks and fire it up with quiet elation. Crikey, this is something special.
Nowhere I’d Rather Be
The gathered crowd – lawyers, army officers, restaurateurs, luxury retailers and your dedicated correspondent – were united by the love of food, drink and fine cigars and by golly, didn’t we prove it…
Lovers of the Leaf
In the first of a series of articles on the gloriously eccentric pastime of selecting, storing, collecting and perhaps even smoking cigars, we take a look at how the landscape has changed of late for London’s lovers of the leaf…