The Manila cigar lands in Dubai this autumn, in three places. A lounge, a hotel bar and a boutique. We will name them when the ink is dry.
We chose Dubai to start for a plain reason: it is where the four origins of the cigar world already sit side by side on the same menu, and where a fourth one gets tasted before it gets judged. Three partners have agreed to carry the house from the first day. A lounge in DIFC, the financial district, where the Robusto Maduro will be on the menu from opening night. A cigar bar in a hotel on the Palm, which asked for the Toro first. And a boutique on the beach road, which will hold the boxes of twenty-five and the gift boxes of ten for those who prefer to smoke at home.
What you will find
The three vitolas, rolled in Laguna between March and June and rested since. The boxes of twenty-five in Spanish cedar. The gift boxes of ten in molave from Paete, with the Cagayan lithograph inside the lid. Each box travels with a humidity pack, and each venue has been through a morning with us on how to keep, cut and light the cigar.
Prices in the lounges are set by the lounges. The boutique price is the recommended one, taxes included, and you will find it on each cigar's page once you select the Emirates as your market.
Addresses, hours and the cigars each venue carries are on the Find us page, updated as the partners open.
After Dubai
Hong Kong follows. A distributor is appointed and the first venues are in conversation. If your city is on neither list, the form on the Find us page takes an email and a city name, and we write once, when we arrive. Nothing else.
