Cigar Shops and Cigar Bars in Casablanca: The 2026 Guide

Marrakech has the palaces, Rabat the diplomacy; Casablanca has the market. The economic capital is the Moroccan city with the most cigar addresses — two of the kingdom’s five official shops, nineteen licensed points of sale, the country’s only factory — but it does not put them in the window: it scatters them from Bourgogne to Aïn Diab, from the Maârif to the port. In Casablanca, the cigar is a regulars’ affair more than a tourists’ one. Here is the map.

Cigar shops in Casablanca: two official shops, two styles

Bourgogne, the club-house

Opened in January 2019 at 6, rue Ibnou Jahir, La Casa del Habano in Bourgogne is the most complete shop in the country: more than 400 references in the catalogue, a “Fumoir d’Exception” where you settle in to taste, private lockers for regulars, made-to-measure humidors and even nationwide delivery — a shop service, ordered through the tobacconist, not an online sale. It is the de facto club of Casablanca’s aficionados: people come as much for the advice and the conversation as for the purchase.

Al Massira, the historic one

At 23, Boulevard Al Massira Al Khadra, the Maârif address is the city’s old one, kept by the exclusive distributor of Havanas in Morocco. Less spectacular than Bourgogne, closer to the offices: this is the counter you drop into between two meetings. These two shops are the only ones in Casablanca supplied directly by the official Habanos channel; our guide to the buying channels explains why that matters.

The only city that rolls its own cigars

A curiosity neither Marrakech nor Havana can offer: Casablanca manufactures, the latest chapter in the history of cigars in Morocco. A local factory — trading under the name “Habanos S.A.”, a namesake with no link to the Cuban house — grows and hand-rolls 100% Moroccan puros, in what it presents as Africa’s first cigar factory. You discover them in its shop-cum-club, among local vitolas and workshop conversation. No international honours to date, but for the curious aficionado it is a tasting that exists nowhere else; our guide to the brands places it in the landscape of the market.

History enjoys its winks: it was on the heights of Anfa, in Casablanca, that Churchill and Roosevelt met in January 1943 for the so-called Casablanca Conference — the Prime Minister’s cigar in the background. A century after the Algeciras monopoly, the city no longer settles for importing the cigar: it produces it.

Cigar bars and lounges in Casablanca: from the Royal Mansour to Rick’s

The Bar at the Royal Mansour, on Avenue des FAR, is the first bar in the city to have described itself as a cigar bar, and the reference: fifties elegance, rare whiskies, a humidor stocked with Cubans and a clientele of regulars. It is the evening address, and it also helps by the single stick when you arrive empty-handed.

Three complements, depending on the mood. The “Fumoir d’Exception” in Bourgogne, to smoke among the lockers, in the shop, without ceremony. The 28th-floor rooftop of the Kenzi Tower, which embraces a smoking area with the finest view in the city. And the legendary Rick’s Café, an unashamed recreation of the bar from the film, which tolerates cigars indoors — the reviews from non-smokers bear witness, which says it all — under a smart casual dress code: no shorts, T-shirts or backpacks, and the house means it. For the table, the institutions of the centre — the Taverne du Dauphin near the port, since 1957 — remain houses where a cigar surprises no one: Casablanca’s circles of aficionados hold their dinners there, cigar lit at the table. Our guide to Morocco’s smoking lounges completes the tour.

A new generation of addresses now owns the cigar indoors. Annabel’s, 17 rue El Houcine Ben Ali, a stone’s throw from the Sacré-Cœur, occupies an Art Deco building on three levels: cigar bar and cigar-and-spirits cellar on the ground floor, restaurant upstairs, lounge at the top, open from noon to 2 am, until 3 am from Thursday to Saturday. L’Octave, 6 rue Michel-Ange in Racine, opened in 2025, keeps its second floor for a Cigar Club of club armchairs and Chesterfields, with a live quartet below. Same address, another door: Bond, the house speakeasy opened in 2026, a cocktail bar whose backlit cabinets line up cognacs and cigar boxes; call ahead for your cigar. The Café M at the Hyatt Regency, on Place des Nations Unies, a brasserie of regulars, keeps a wine cellar and a cigar cellar where you pick your vitola from the humidor. And on the Corniche, the terrace of the Four Seasons and its blue-and-gold zellige fire pit are, by the house’s own admission, the place for a cigar and an aperitif facing the ocean; Kyúb, its Latin-coastal table, adds a Cigar Room. Two more lounges: in the heart of the business district, the Library, Cigar Lounge & Bar of the Odyssee Center hotel, a library of thousands of volumes, fine spirits and cigars; and on the Corniche, the “Roméo et Juliette” at the Shore Club, the English-style cigar lounge of the Aïn Diab complex, between the restaurant Le Métis and the Sea Lounge. In Anfa, finally, the Terrasse Jasmin of Le Casablanca Hôtel (19 boulevard Moulay Rachid), open from 8 am to 11 pm onto the gardens and pool, lets you smoke a cigar at the table in its Art Deco setting; bring your own.

Circles of aficionados, for their part, have their own tables. Villa Boga, 7 rue de la Tempête in Aïn Diab — Casablanca’s Boga Boga since 1982, reopened in June 2024 — sees them gather around a large round table, cigar in hand. Beyond the city limits, in Bouskoura, Casa José, the Spanish restaurant of the Casa Green Town golf clubhouse, open daily from noon to 11 pm, hosts their evenings: a terrace facing the greens, a fireside corner and two private rooms. Neither presents itself as a cigar bar; call ahead to find out where you may light yours.

Nineteen addresses, one map

The distributor’s map lists nineteen licensed points of sale in Casablanca — the national record — but they are not all equal. The specialist tobacconists first: the three Brooklyn Smoke Shops (Aïn Diab, Racine, Taddart) and Pipe House, where you will find advice. Not on the map, La Brume, a tobacconist and concept store at Les Faubourgs d’Anfa (Boulevard Abdellah Bencherif, Casablanca Finance City), also keeps a cigar counter and stays open late into the evening. The wine merchants next, Drinks & Co foremost, to pair the bottle with the cigar. The rest — petrol stations, mini-markets, hotel counters — helps out more than it advises: useful on a Sunday evening, not for putting together a box. The full list, with directions, sits at the end of our guide on where to buy; everywhere, the reflex is the same: ring before you travel, shipments are irregular.

What the ocean changes for your cigars

Good news: Casablanca is the kindest city on the Moroccan circuit. The Atlantic tempers what Marrakech dries out, and a cigar survives a Casablanca weekend better than two days in the south. The threat changes sides: it comes from the air conditioning of bedrooms and offices, which dries the indoor air, and from the swings between morning mist and sunny afternoon. The reflexes therefore stay the same, in a relaxed version: a rigid case for the day, a humidity pack in your luggage for the stay — our guide to humidity control covers the dosages — and buying as you go rather than a box on day one.

The framework and the prices

Law 15-91 prohibits smoking in hospitals, government offices, public transport, theatres and classrooms; neither cafés, nor restaurants, nor bars, nor hotels appear in it. Casablanca custom comes down to two gestures: the terrace by default, indoors where the house embraces it — a humidor at the bar is answer enough. The city being more business than resort, a jacket is rarely out of place in the evening.

As for price, cigar prices are set by the state and identical across the official channel: a Montecristo No. 4 at 150 DH, a Cohiba Siglo I at 400 DH, here as in Marrakech. Nobody will give you a deal, and that is your best protection: a cigar well below the list is a fake, in a port city where contraband is no legend. Our official price list gives the rate for every vitola.

A Casablanca day, aficionado’s version

• Morning. A visit to La Casa del Habano in Bourgogne: two or three vitolas chosen in the walk-in, a word on the current shipments, a case if you do not have one.
• Afternoon. The Aïn Diab corniche for a walk, and the detour that earns its medal: the esplanade of the Hassan II mosque facing the ocean — you do not smoke on the esplanade, you look.
• Evening. Dinner in the centre, then the Bar at the Royal Mansour for the cigar of the evening, or the Fumoir d’Exception if you miss the conversation. The Kenzi Tower rooftop if the night is mild.

The visitor’s reflexes

1. Ring before you travel, shops and bars alike: stocks are irregular, even at the official counter.
2. Buy at the counter, never online or “by courier”: there is no legal online sale of cigars in Morocco.
3. Beware the knock-down price: the regulated rate is your guarantee of authenticity, above all in a port city.
4. Taste the Moroccan puro. It is the souvenir nobody else will bring home, and it is found only here.

Casablanca stands on no ceremony. But for the aficionado who knows which doors to push — a walk-in humidor in Bourgogne, an armchair on Avenue des FAR, a wisp of smoke facing the Atlantic — the white city is, quietly, Morocco’s everyday cigar capital.