Originally Posted by Frog84

Since there are pages and pages of posts about parillas (steak houses), I don't want to touch that, but I do want to comment on the OP's question on cigars. I am a woman but I probably know more about cigars than at least 75% of most men.

Anyway, there are 2 shops that I have not encountered fakes so I will only mention these 2. First the one I do not shop at, although you will find a perfectly good cuban there. La Casa del Habano on Calle San Martin 690. They are certified to be real. The reason I do not shop there is because the sales women there was rude to me more than once, does not really know the product, and would not let me touch the cigar (and if I am buying a $15 (USD stick) I want to touch it. There site is here anyway. http://www.lacasadelhabano.com.ar/

Davidoff (the only place I will shop) is just a few blocks away on Maipu between Cordoba and Paraguay). They know their stuff. They let me touch away. They speak english (they speak spanish to me and english to the friends I bring visiting from the states). The manager has been there for at least the 7 years I have lived here and so has his employee. They have a really nice room downstairs (big leather chairs and couches) they will let you sit and smoke in if you buy a few cigars. They are not open on weekend or late so you have to go business hours. Also, if you are here for a long time and miss a good Dominican cigar (the horrors! but you will get sick of always smoking Cubans and I bring cigars from the States here now), you can get some non-Cubans there too.