Catlin's

One of the few specialist shops around now. Cigars are ONE of my vices, and here I have had a great selection to choose from. More importantly they are not “dried” out, as you find in supermarkets and other stores ie Martins and such like.
First class attitude and treatment from the moment you walk in.
Thank you, many, many times!

What a lovely man. Sold me the best smoke of my life after I asked for something special the night before I gave up. Drat.

An amazing survivor on Lewes High Street is this tiny but fabulous traditional tobacconists and sweet shop. It sells a wide range of cigars, tobacco, pipes and snuff, and the chocolate range includes Belgian, Swiss, English, Italian and even high-quality Ghanaian Chocolate.

The range of specialty confectionery is impressive - Amarelli Liquorice, Lassiters' White Mint Truffles, Beeches Coffee Creams, Bovetti Perigord Chocolate, Cocadance Handmade English Chocolates, Devine Fairtrade African Chocolate, Anthon Berg Liqueurs, Whitakers Chocolates, Villars Swiss Chocolate, Revillon Chocolates, Leon Torino and Venchi Italian sweets, to name but a few. Younger customers are catered for with more traditional sweets in jars.

This is pretty much the perfect shop for a really special present, and the service is - as you might expect - knowledgeable and helpful, with traditional 'Old-World' values. (It's a while since I have been addressed as 'Sir' just on entering). But they've also entered the modern era, with a wonderful web-site to whet your palate.

Chocoholics beware!