The shortlist
Not a ranking of everything — a ranking of what we'd actually drive across town for. The short list that carries our name.
No. 1 · Featured
Little Havana · Miami, FL · ★4.8
A torcedor at the front of the shop, a mojito on the bar, and a live band finding its groove as the evening settles in. The Montagne family has run this corner of Calle Ocho since 1997 — with tobacco roots running some 130 years back to Las Villas, Cuba. On weekends the smoke goes to 3 a.m. Everything Miami claims to be, in one room.
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A torcedor in the front window, rolling the way Ybor has since 1886. Everything smoked here was rolled here — and the Cuban coffee holds its own.
Level 9 Cuban masters rolling the small batches the cult brands are built on. Weekdays only, and worth arranging a day around.
Through a restored London phone booth — if you know the number — to 400-plus rare pours and a Prohibition room built for the long sit.
The polished end of Miami smoke: 250-plus whiskeys, a proper walk-in humidor, and an ozone closet that sends your jacket home clean.
Four floors up by private elevator, smoke where you sit. The upscale end of 7th Avenue — and Cigar Aficionado noticed.
An 1896 American icon back at the bench. Tour the factory, taste with the rollers — or sit down and blend a box of your own.