Tucked away just off Española Way, one of the trendiest streets on South Beach, is a discreet black door simply marked with the letters SB. Behind it lies Sushi Bar Miami Beach, a reservation-only, 14-seat, speakeasy-style sushi bar offering a 17-course Omakase dining experience. Situated at the rear of the chic Esmé Miami Beach Hotel, Chef Francis Arguilla and his team deftly combine responsibly sourced fish, traditional Japanese methods, and a creative flair that has made Sushi Bar one of the hottest tables in town. Omakase, a dining style rooted in trust, has no menu. “The word ‘omakase’ m ..read more

Artesano Del Tobacco announces a new size of EL Pulpo cigars, the Fry, a 4 x 48 pigtailed Gordita ($12.40). It features a San Andreas Maduro wrapper with Nicaraguan binder and filler. It comes packaged in a travel cardboard box that holds five cigars and a pocket for matches and a magnet flip-top with a child proof lock. The cigars ship June 14. Click HERE for our latest news ..read more

City Cigar Lounge will celebrate four years at its downtown Miami location on May 30 starting at 7 pm.  The event will feature entertainment, a welcome cocktail, light bites, and music.  “We at City Cigar Lounge are looking forward to a grand celebration with our friends, customers, and colleagues,” Tico Gutierrez, co-owner, and founder of City Cigar Lounge said in a press release. “Here at the City Cigar Lounge, we believe very much in the customer experience, and we will provide a most memorable event.” The lounge is located at 41 NW 2nd St in Miami. Click HERE for our la ..read more

J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is shipping the first release of the year of its Yagua cigars.   The misshapen 6 x 54 cigar is designed to look farm-rolled, similar to what  Lazaro Lopez, general manager of the J.C. Newman PENSA cigar factory in Nicaragua, remembers his grandfather making at his family’s tobacco farm in Cuba in the 1940s. It uses unfermented tobacco, and no two are alike. Shortly after being rolled, 20 Yagua cigars are bound together while still wet using a Yagua palmiche palm leaf. Each box of Yagua contains a bundle of 20 cigars still wrapped in the palm leaf. “Yagua is ..read more

The shore on Lake Geneva in Montreux Photo: Michael Ludwiczak/stock.adobe.com Zermatt, Switzerland – By the time the gondola reached 9,000 feet, we were in the middle of a whiteout. It was pure static outside our sizable tin can, which rolled back and forth, whipped by the 45 mph winds, enveloped in a gray blur of snowflakes. The gondola, with a capacity of roughly 30 people, had no heat and a handful of passengers. Toes and fingers were icy despite multiple layers of gloves and socks. The trek up the side of an Alps mountain was a high point of a Swiss Alps visit, which took in the city of Ge ..read more

Coming in hot for a weekend edition of MAILTIME! The fun and packages build up to a Joya de Nicaragua crescendo topped off with an Espinosa – La Bomba X. Can you handle the strength of the La Bomba? Let us know! In the video, Jamy is enjoying a Nub Cameroon while Erik fired up a Rocky Patel White Label. Thanks to all who sent in packages and don’t forget to set a reminder to jump on our Instagram (www.instagram.com/cigarsnobmag) every Friday at 3 PM EST. We give away some incredible prizes every week! Click HERE to check out our other Mail Time videos ..read more

Quality Importers Trading Company is shipping the Palió Veneto Quad Lighter globally.  The quadruple jet-flame lighter is sold as an individual lighter or a 15-count display with an MSRP of $29.99 each. The lighter includes a gift box. The Palió Veneto Quad Lighter features a customizable design, and transparency fuel tank and comes in five colors with gunmetal accents. It measures  1.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 or 35 x 138 x 27 mm. Click HERE for our latest news ..read more

Le Petit is offering free engraving on its blades through June 7.  To take advantage of the offer, select a knife, add personalization in the box on the product page, and check out.  The offer applies only to blades without initial engraving on them. Engraving takes place on the outer half of the blade. Order at https://www.lesfineslames.com/en-usd?mc_cid=43997ddd1f Click HERE for our latest news ..read more

La Aurora USA announces the Best Sellers 2024 Sampler Pack, a collection of 10 of the brand’s top-rated cigars. The Best Seller package ($120) features two Toro cigars from the 120th Anniversary, the 107 Nicaragua, ADN Dominicano, Cameroon 1903 Time Capsule Series, and the Connecticut 1987 Time Capsule Series. The box that holds the ten toros pays homage to the cultural heritage of Santiago de los Caballeros. It is adorned with intricate sketches of iconic Dominican figures: a couple dancing the folkloric merengue beneath the Monumento de la Restauración, and the lechón from the city’s Februar ..read more

E.P. Carrillo announces the E.P. Carrillo Pledge of Allegiance 2024 cigar, a commemorative cigar limited to 1,776 boxes. The 6 x 54 box-pressed cigar ($22) features a U.S. Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, an Ecuadorian Connecticut binder, and a combination of U.S., Nicaraguan, and Dominican Republic filler.  As part of the patriotic theme, the band is representative of the bands on La Historia, Encore, Pledge, and Allegiance, the company’s biggest sellers, but with a change in coloration to emphasize the American color theme. It comes in a 10-count box featuring an American flag motif, and ..read more