Three generations.
One craft.
Family-owned, hand-rolled, and rooted in the neighborhood that put American cigars on the map.
Where We Come From
Ybor City: the birthplace of the American cigar.
In 1886, a Spanish-born cigar maker named Vicente Martínez Ybor moved his factory from Key West to a patch of scrubland outside Tampa — bringing with him thousands of Cuban and Spanish cigar workers, the torcedores who had built his trade in Havana. The neighborhood that grew up around that factory took his name: Ybor City. Within a generation it was known as the Cigar Capital of the World.
Market of Cigars carries that same tradition forward today, on the same streets where it began. The shop is family-owned and operated, led today by Yordany and his family, hand-rolling cigars for three generations. Every cigar sold in the shop is rolled by hand — not mass-produced — the same way it's been done here since 1886.
Nuestra Herencia
A Cuban craft, carried forward.
Every cigar in the shop is rolled by hand by a torcedor — the traditional Cuban and Spanish word for a master cigar roller — using the same technique passed down since Ybor City's earliest days. Pair one with a cafecito, a cortadito, or a full colada from the lounge, and you're sitting in the same tradition that built this neighborhood: Cuban craft, Spanish roots, hand-rolled in Tampa.
The Craft
What we believe.
Hand-Rolled, Always
Every cigar is rolled by hand in-shop — not a factory product, not mass-produced. Craftsmanship over volume.
Family, Three Generations
This is a family business, passed down and still hand-rolling today — the same craft, the same care, generation to generation.
A Lounge, Not Just a Shop
Fine Cuban coffee and a place to sit and enjoy your cigar — Market of Cigars is built to slow down in, not just shop in.
Cuban Roots
Rolled the way torcedores have rolled since Ybor City's earliest days — a Cuban and Spanish craft, carried forward in Tampa.
The Lounge
Hand-rolled cigars, fine Cuban coffee.
Stop in, pick a cigar, and stay for a Cuban coffee in the lounge. Open seven days a week in the heart of Ybor City — whether you're a longtime regular or visiting the district for the first time, there's a seat for you.
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