Burns Night herf

Burns night herf was as usual held at Boisdale in Bishopsgate last night. Attended by members of the NoMoreScots herf group and the splinter group The3Amigos, and excellent evening was had by all.


A delightful 4 course meal with Haggis of course ( Veggie for me!) accompanied with The MacCallum 21 year old scotch….whilst the Pipe blasted away in my ear !


Gordon chose the red wine and we toasted both Burns as well as Gordon’s birthday…happy birthday Commander…power herfer extraordinaire !


Thanks to Sandra for the aged Punch Punch…splendid smoke.


Craig was enjoying his usual Monte 2’s and me …P2’s,Zaff was on BBF’s and Sandra Trini Robusto Extras,Chris was too busy eating to smoke :-)


Vimal popped in for a quick smoke and drink but had to race off…something about a few family weddings that evening :-) If you are in the City I can tell you the finest cigar shop can be found at http://www.bbertie-cigars.com/


Likely to be our last Burns night herf in Bishopsgate due to the stupid smoking ban due 1st July but we hear that good old Ranald is planning a smoking roof terrace in Boisdale of Belgravia …well done Ranald :-) …and see ya next year.


Thanks to Katie for the most attentive service.


C.Gars Ltd thoroughly recommends Boisdale restaurants http://www.boisdale.co.uk/ …tell them we sent you when you book ( and they will charge you double!)


Slanj !


McMitch :-)

New York New York :-)

Just back from a lightening visit to New York City where my cigar buddy Gary was married on Sunday….Congrats Gary and Cathy!…..we enjoyed some of the new Cohiba limited edition piramides with some excellent old Balvenie ;-)


Great value for us Brits with the current exchange rate:-)


Managed to sneak in a quick smoke at Club Macanudo which I am delighted to confirm is a most delightful venue for smokes/drinks/eats :-) www.clubmacanudonyc.com


Good to see that there is somewhere that smoking is still ( barely ) legal.


Back to the office and a zillion emails as well as a server delay with no doubt another zillion emails delayed by up to 24 hours…hope to have the problem sorted out by the morning.


For an urgent response please email me at [email protected].


Stacks of vintage Havanas waiting for me to quality check and list this week…looking for something special ?…drop me an email.


Good smoking


Best


Mitchell

Happy new year :-)

Sorry for the lack of blogging of recent…if not busy selecting finest Havanas,have been waaay busy spending time with the family over Christmas weekend:-)…OK so now I have 8 Pounds in weight to lose after 4 days of non stop eating in and eating out !…and just a little drinking too :-) Thanks to J and J for a magnificent marathon Xmas lunch!…and welcome to Niall as our newest and youngest herf club member :-)


Herfed with Zaff and JB at the London office last week and matched up the new Cohiba piramides LE with some splendid 1990 Lanson…needless to say we all agreed that match was perfect…we then continued to smoke some awesome Partagas SD4 Reserva that I was keeping back for a suitable occasion….sublime.


On the matter of “Sublimes” there are no more left! not a single cigars…we have totally and utterly sold out…thanks to all of my clients no happily enjoying a good Cohiba Sublimes.


Popped over to my Father yesterday and we smoked Davidoff Dom Perignon 1988 with a wee dram off 1975 Littlemill…now that was a great pairing.Both subtle taste and flavour combos with great balance and complexity.


Looking forward to next year…should be a BIG cigar year…great regional editions including the PL magnificos for the UK market ( thank you Simon Chase!) and the new Cohiba maduros which I am hoping to see at the Festival at the end of Feb.


Launch party for my La Casa del Habano in Hamburg now scheduled for late April with many famous personalities from the industry due to attend ( email me for more details should you wish to attend) Christoph and Art at LCDH-Hamburg tell me business is booming in the shop and we will be opening our private cigar meeting/tasting room early next year which we are really excited about as we will be holding regular tastings of vintage cigars that will be reported by the cigar Press no doubt.


So I’m off for a week in the sunshine….herf’dor full of P2’s and BBF’s…blazer full :-)


Happy new year All…good smoking and long ashes.


Best


SmokeyMo

Pre Christmas herf at the Churchill

The annual pre Christmas herf for the “Nomorescots” cigar group was as usual help at the Churchill cigar bar and divan on Portman square.


The usual suspects appeared Craig,Gordon,Vimal,Zaff,Chris and of course we all mocched cigars from each other whilst planning the 2007 herf schedule:-) the winning mooch was a very dark and oily BBF by Gordon ( from me !) which was power herfed in around 15 minutes or less :-)


So it looks like 25th January Burns night herf at Boisdales in the City and May bank holiday could be in Cyprus/Spain or France…no agreement yet!


Home herfs are likely after the ridiculous smoking ban planned due next year)-:


If you’re in London try the Churchill while you can…my fave venue for a smoke/snack/drink.


Best


Mitch