Smoke and Mirrors: Vienna
Nick Hammond visits Vienna for the first time and enjoys the atmosphere at some of the city’s best cigar spots…
Author Nick Hammond
A Tale of Two Cellos
Nick Hammond wallows in a rare evening of musical bliss with the extraordinary cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber and his equally talented wife…
The Belgraves Hotel London
The Arb’s Cigar Editor, Nick Hammond, dons his raincoat and goes singin’ in the rain at the quietly luxurious Belgraves Hotel in, well, Belgravia, of course…
Cigar Chatter: Dunhill & Regius
New super blends, funky new stores, last minute festive buying – it’s been a busy…
Carmen at the ROH
Carmen still has something to offer, 138 years on. Nick Hammond watches Bizet’s classic opera comique at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden…
Cigar Writer of the Year
Our Cigar Editor, Nick Hammond, wins the Spectator Cigar Writer of the Year Award 2013.…
Ten Manchester Street Hotel
Cigar Editor Nick Hammond shakes the dust of Baker Street from his brogues and samples the new menu – and cigar sampling room – at Marylebone’s No. Ten Manchester Street Hotel…
No. 2 Cambridge Street
“Effortlessly elegant and as batty as a fruitcake, Erlend Clouston shows me around his beautiful ground floor apartment.” Nick visits Edinburgh’s No. 2 Cambridge Street…
Alec Bradley & Don Pepin Garcia
Cigar Editor Nick Hammond is pleased to see two New World brands hit the UK…
The May Fair Hotel
On a mission to find the residence of choice in Mayfair, Cigar Editor Nick Hammond strides manfully to the eponymous May Fair Hotel…
The Sloane Club Apartments
“This is the sacred hollows of The Sloane Club, an oasis of civility tucked amongst the hubris of commercial Chelsea.”
The Grove Hotel
The Grove hotel in Hertfordshire is so vast that I actually discovered faults in my footwear while negotiating its cavernous interior…