Where can you buy cigars in Rabat?

At La Casa del Habano in Souissi, the capital's official shop: units 33-34, Galerie Prestige, on the corner of Avenue Mohammed VI and Rue Ahmed Rifaii, in the embassy quarter. It is the first shop of Morocco's official network, opened in July 2011 and supplied by the exclusive distributor of Havanas in Morocco. As a fallback, the distributor's map lists a few approved outlets — Man Ray Drugstore and three petrol stations — useful for an evening vitola, not for putting a box together. Off the map, CIG HOUSE, the tobacconist of the Marché Dar Essalam in Souissi, keeps a humidor cabinet stocked with open boxes (Oliva, Horacio) that deserves better than fallback status. Everywhere, call before you make the trip: stocks are erratic.

Where can you smoke a cigar in Rabat?

Six addresses own it, in five registers. The cigar lounge at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, on the institutional side: the Cigare House of the ClubHouse Robuchon, the capital's hushed tasting room, within the grounds of one of Africa's most renowned golf courses. Le Dhow, on the curious side: a dhow moored on the Bouregreg below the Kasbah of the Udayas, which devotes its Sunday evenings to cigars and cognac. The Blind Tiger, on the palace side: the speakeasy bar of The Ritz-Carlton Rabat, in Dar Es Salam, where a cigar goes with the cocktail. The Laila Lounge, on the palace side again: the night lounge of the Four Seasons Kasr Al Bahr, facing the Atlantic, with its own selection of cigars and rare spirits, in a jazz atmosphere. The Amber Bar at the Sofitel Jardin des Roses, in Souissi, a hushed lounge bar with a reputed cocktail list, where Rabat's aficionados have their habits without the house making a menu of it. Egiodola, on the dining side: the bistronomic restaurant in Hay Riad announces its own cigar bar, with jazz nights. Le Deck, on the terrace side: the rooftop of the Fairmont La Marina, on the Salé bank of the Bouregreg, Pan-Latin cooking and a large open-air terrace where you smoke facing the river, until 1 am. For the rest, Rabat follows the Moroccan custom: the terrace by default, indoors where the house owns it.

Are cigars cheaper in Rabat?

No: prices are set by the state, published by customs circular and identical across the official channel. A Montecristo No. 4 costs 150 DH in Rabat as in Casablanca or Marrakech, a Cohiba Siglo I 400 DH. Nobody will give you a deal, and that is your best protection: a cigar well below the list price is not a bargain, it is a fake. Our official price list details every reference.

Is the Rabat shop really Morocco's first?

Yes. La Casa del Habano in Souissi opened in July 2011, and Morocco's official network was built from it: Marrakech only followed in 2018, Casablanca in 2019. For seven years, a Moroccan aficionado who wanted a Havana from the official channel had a single address, and it was in the capital. It is a title Rabat does not put in the window — true to its temperament.

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Cigars in Rabat: Shops, Lounges and the Right Addresses

By the CIGARA house, published 1 September 2026, updated 23 September 2026

Stylised illustration of the Hassan Tower in golden line work, rows of unfinished columns on the esplanade, a banded cigar in the foreground and a rising wisp of smoke

The essentials

Rabat is home to the kingdom's first official shop: La Casa del Habano in Souissi, opened in July 2011, seven years before Marrakech and eight before Casablanca.
The city plays it with diplomatic discretion: a single official shop, but in the embassy quarter, at the Galerie Prestige on Avenue Mohammed VI.
Five registers for smoking: the cigar lounge at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam on the institutional side, Le Dhow — a dhow moored on the Bouregreg — on the curious side, on Sunday evenings; and, on the palace side, the Blind Tiger at The Ritz-Carlton Rabat, where cigars are welcome, the Laila Lounge at the Four Seasons Kasr Al Bahr, which keeps its own cigar selection, and the Amber Bar at the Sofitel Jardin des Roses, a regulars' haunt; and, on the dining side, the cigar bar at Egiodola, a bistronomic restaurant in Hay Riad; and, on the terrace side, Le Deck, the rooftop of the Fairmont La Marina, facing the Bouregreg.
Prices are state-administered: a Montecristo No. 4 costs 150 DH in Rabat as in Casablanca, and a discounted cigar is a fake, not a bargain.
The Atlantic tempers the climate as it does in Casablanca: the real threat to your vitolas is the air conditioning, not the street.

Casablanca has the market, Marrakech the palaces; Rabat has seniority. It was in the capital that Morocco’s official Havana channel was born, in July 2011, with the kingdom’s first Casa del Habano — seven years before Marrakech, eight before Casablanca. The city makes no poster of it: a single shop, seven lounges that matter, addresses passed on rather than advertised. That is the manner of Rabat, the administrative and diplomatic capital — and it is also the city where CIGARA is written. Here is the map.

Souissi, the shop where it all began

La Casa del Habano Rabat occupies units 33-34 of the Galerie Prestige, on the corner of Avenue Mohammed VI and Rue Ahmed Rifaii, in Souissi — the quarter of embassies, residences and gardens. The location says everything about the local style: no showy window on a boulevard, but a quiet gallery in the city’s most hushed neighbourhood.

It is the first shop of Morocco’s official network, opened in July 2011 and supplied ever since by the exclusive distributor of Havanas in Morocco. For seven years, before Marrakech (2018) and then Casablanca (2019), the country’s entire official channel fitted into this one address. You will find the counsel of a house with seniority on its side, and the reflex is the same across the whole channel: call before you make the trip, stocks are erratic. Our guide to the buying channels explains why these official shops matter so much.

Where to smoke: the golf course or the river

Rabat long lacked a self-declared cigar bar like Casablanca’s; it has one now, and seven addresses many capitals would envy.

The cigar lounge at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, on the institutional side. It has had a name since 2021: the Cigare House of the ClubHouse Robuchon, Joël Robuchon’s table overlooking the greens of one of Africa’s most renowned golf courses. This hushed lounge is the capital’s tasting room — where you finish a round or a day of meetings, vitola in hand, at the table and indoors, and nobody raises an eyebrow.

Le Dhow, on the curious side. A dhow moored on the Bouregreg, below the Kasbah of the Udayas, which devotes its Sunday evenings to cigars and cognac: you smoke on the water, the city on one side, Salé on the other. It is the most singular address on the Moroccan circuit, and the easiest to offer a friend passing through.

The Blind Tiger, on the palace side. The speakeasy bar of The Ritz-Carlton Rabat, in Dar Es Salam, at the gates of the Royal Golf: black walls, a gilded chandelier, cocktails in the 1920s manner — and cigars are welcome, which remains rare in a palace hotel. It is the evening address when you want to pair the vitola with a glass without leaving Souissi.

The Laila Lounge, on the palace side again, but facing the ocean. The night lounge of the Four Seasons Kasr Al Bahr, opened in November 2025 in the hotel’s oldest building, announces what few addresses in the capital own up to: a selection of cigars and rare spirits, a cocktail list and a jazz atmosphere. With the golf club, it is the only lounge in Rabat where you need not arrive equipped.

The Amber Bar at the Sofitel Jardin des Roses, on the side of habit. A low-lit lounge bar on avenue Imam Malek in Souissi, known for its signature cocktails rather than for a humidor: the house announces nothing, but the capital’s aficionados have their armchairs there. You arrive equipped, and smoke to the rhythm of the cocktail list.

Egiodola, on the dining side. The bistronomic restaurant in Hay Riad, with its timber mezzanine and spiral staircase, is the only house in the capital to announce a cigar bar in so many words: a space apart, where dinner carries on vitola in hand, on jazz nights above all. Open from 4 pm, booking advised.

Le Deck at the Fairmont La Marina, on the terrace side. The hotel’s rooftop, at the Bouregreg marina on the Salé bank, looks across at Rabat between river and ocean: Pan-Latin cooking with a Nikkei accent, cabanas around the pool and a large open-air terrace where a cigar finds its place quite naturally — at sunset above all. The house announces no cigar list: you arrive equipped. Open daily from noon to 1 am, booking advised.

For everything else, Rabat’s custom is the country’s: the terrace by default, indoors where the house owns it. Our guide to Morocco’s cigar lounges places these seven addresses in the national picture.

The fallbacks, in their proper place

The distributor’s map lists a handful of approved outlets in Rabat alongside the official shop: Man Ray Drugstore, and three petrol stations — OLA Energy and Winxo in town, the TotalEnergies Bouregreg services on the road to Salé. Take them for what they are: a Sunday-night fallback, not a counter for advice. You will find a common vitola there, rarely the makings of a box, and the administered price tag remains the only benchmark that counts.

Absent from that map, CIG HOUSE, the tobacconist of the Marché Dar Essalam (corner of rue Sahel and avenue du 10 Mars 1982, in Souissi), deserves better than fallback status: behind its news and confectionery counter, a glazed, lit humidor cabinet lines up open boxes — Oliva and Horacio among them — a stone’s throw from the Royal Golf. Open from 10 am to 8.30 pm. A recent address, worth a call to confirm, but one that at last gives the capital a second counter where a vitola can be chosen.

The Atlantic works for you

Like Casablanca, Rabat enjoys the Atlantic’s clemency: the sea air tempers what Marrakech dries out, and a vitola survives a weekend in the capital without drama. The threat is indoors: the air conditioning of offices, ministries and hotel rooms, which dries the air more surely than the street does. The reflexes come down to two objects: a rigid case for the day, a regulating pouch in the luggage for the stay — our guide to humidity gives the dosages.

The rules and the prices

Law 15-91 bans smoking in hospitals, public administrations, public transport, performance halls and classrooms — and in a city of ministries, administrations are never far. Neither cafés, nor restaurants, nor hotels appear on the list: the terrace remains the rule of courtesy, and discretion the rule full stop. Rabat is a city of protocol; you smoke a cigar there the way you dress there, without flash.

As for prices, they are administered by the state and identical across the official channel: a Montecristo No. 4 at 150 DH, a Cohiba Siglo I at 400 DH, in Rabat as everywhere. Nobody will give you a deal, and that is your best protection: a cigar well below the list is a fake. Our official price list gives the tariff for every vitola.

A Rabat day, the aficionado’s version

Morning. A visit to La Casa del Habano in Souissi: two or three vitolas chosen at the counter, advice on the latest arrivals, a case if you have none.
Afternoon. The city knows how to walk: the esplanade of the Hassan Tower and its unfinished columns, the Chellah, the blue-and-white lanes of the Udayas — you do not smoke on the monuments, you look at them.
Evening. Dinner in the quarter, then the lounge at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam for the evening’s vitola. On a Sunday, Le Dhow: a cigar on the water, with the deck for a terrace.

The visitor’s reflexes

Call before you make the trip, shop and lounges alike: stocks are erratic, even at the official counter.
Buy at the counter, never online or “by courier”: there is no legal online sale of cigars in Morocco.
Beware the discounted price: the administered tariff is your guarantee of authenticity, in Rabat as anywhere.
Keep Sunday evening for the river. A vitola on the deck of the Dhow, facing the Udayas, is a memory neither Casablanca nor Marrakech can offer.

Rabat does not shout, it receives. A shop with the network’s seniority, a golf-club lounge, a dhow on the river: for the aficionado who prefers conversation to spectacle, the capital may be the Moroccan city where a cigar smokes best — it is, at any rate, the one CIGARA knows by heart.

Frequently asked questions

Where can you buy cigars in Rabat?: At La Casa del Habano in Souissi, the capital's official shop: units 33-34, Galerie Prestige, on the corner of Avenue Mohammed VI and Rue Ahmed Rifaii, in the embassy quarter. It is the first shop of Morocco's official network, opened in July 2011 and supplied by the exclusive distributor of Havanas in Morocco. As a fallback, the distributor's map lists a few approved outlets — Man Ray Drugstore and three petrol stations — useful for an evening vitola, not for putting a box together. Off the map, CIG HOUSE, the tobacconist of the Marché Dar Essalam in Souissi, keeps a humidor cabinet stocked with open boxes (Oliva, Horacio) that deserves better than fallback status. Everywhere, call before you make the trip: stocks are erratic.
Where can you smoke a cigar in Rabat?: Six addresses own it, in five registers. The cigar lounge at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, on the institutional side: the Cigare House of the ClubHouse Robuchon, the capital's hushed tasting room, within the grounds of one of Africa's most renowned golf courses. Le Dhow, on the curious side: a dhow moored on the Bouregreg below the Kasbah of the Udayas, which devotes its Sunday evenings to cigars and cognac. The Blind Tiger, on the palace side: the speakeasy bar of The Ritz-Carlton Rabat, in Dar Es Salam, where a cigar goes with the cocktail. The Laila Lounge, on the palace side again: the night lounge of the Four Seasons Kasr Al Bahr, facing the Atlantic, with its own selection of cigars and rare spirits, in a jazz atmosphere. The Amber Bar at the Sofitel Jardin des Roses, in Souissi, a hushed lounge bar with a reputed cocktail list, where Rabat's aficionados have their habits without the house making a menu of it. Egiodola, on the dining side: the bistronomic restaurant in Hay Riad announces its own cigar bar, with jazz nights. Le Deck, on the terrace side: the rooftop of the Fairmont La Marina, on the Salé bank of the Bouregreg, Pan-Latin cooking and a large open-air terrace where you smoke facing the river, until 1 am. For the rest, Rabat follows the Moroccan custom: the terrace by default, indoors where the house owns it.
Are cigars cheaper in Rabat?: No: prices are set by the state, published by customs circular and identical across the official channel. A Montecristo No. 4 costs 150 DH in Rabat as in Casablanca or Marrakech, a Cohiba Siglo I 400 DH. Nobody will give you a deal, and that is your best protection: a cigar well below the list price is not a bargain, it is a fake. Our official price list details every reference.
Is the Rabat shop really Morocco's first?: Yes. La Casa del Habano in Souissi opened in July 2011, and Morocco's official network was built from it: Marrakech only followed in 2018, Casablanca in 2019. For seven years, a Moroccan aficionado who wanted a Havana from the official channel had a single address, and it was in the capital. It is a title Rabat does not put in the window — true to its temperament.