A luxury smoking lounge and cigar shop has opened at the Ritz
London has strengthened its claim to be the cigar capital of the world with the launch of an opulent shop and smoking lounge at one of its most famous hotels. Ritz London Cigars opened this week on the ground floor of the five-star Piccadilly landmark and will be open daily from 10am to 11pm. It is the latest venue in central London where cigar-lovers jav sex uncensored can buy and sample some of the world’s finest Havanas. The shop will display a range of Cohiba, Partagás, Montecristo, Ramón Allones and Bolívar cigars as well as its collection of six Ritz cigars from Cuba in a walk-in humidor. The range includes the rare Cohiba Behike 56 priced at £210 per cigar. The Ritz Collection Laquito Number Six box and the Ritz Cigars Churchill Box 12 each cost £960 for 12 cigars. Buyers will be able to try their purchases in an art deco-style “sampling lounge” which is exempt from the ban on smoking in public places, and get advice from a cigar sommelier. Some of the wo...