Mission Statement

The purpose of this blog is help those that smoke cigars and travel for work find the best cigar stores when they travel.

Top Ten Cigar Stores I've Visited - Midwest / Northeast US

  • Avon Cigars, Agawam, MA
  • House of Cigar, Powell, OH
  • Belicoso Lounge, Tinley Park, IL

Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Lost art of the Cigar Lounge...

Today I'm blogging about how there is such a lack of cigar lounges in the state of New Jersey.  To be specific Southern New Jersey!!  Here are the cigar lounges that I have found in my travels throughout New Jersey:

JR Cigar - Route 10 Whippany, NJ
The lounge is ok - there are 4 - 5 tables and some nice leather type chairs around them as well as some standard chairs you'd find ait a poker table...  The only real issue is that the temperature is a little hot for me.  The best cigar lounge experience for me is where its nice and cool!!.  Oh yeah - alot of people rave about JR cigar stores.  They have a few great brands added as of late - Pepin (the best), Camacho, Fuente, La Gloria but they shove those JR cigars down your throat and alot of "crap" Altadis" and General Cigar brands...  Mayorga?  Ramon Allones - what the F.....  those suck and really are only smoke by people who are casual smokers who dont know shi$%^t about what a good cigar is.....

Cigar Stop
1607 Broad St
Shrewsbury, NJ

Very nice little lounge in the back of the Store, decent guys at the shop, very accomadating staff..  The cigar selection is weak but none the less they do what seems to be a good business.

Rubens Smoke Stack
Hackensack, NJ

I  found this place when I desperate for a place to work and smoke early one evening after work.  Wild selection of sticks, from Tatuaje's to Crappy Romeos.

Friday, July 13, 2012

La Palina... EL DIARIO


I took another plunge today and dropped some bucks ($13)on the La Palina - 
I bought and then smoke the stick at Ruben's Smoke Stack in Hackensack, NJ.

(I found this place a few weeks ago on one of my cigar store hunts I frequently do when in a town I've not been in for a while...   Really a great selection of smokes - Alot of boutique stuff along with the regulars - General Cigars - Altadis etc... Prices are reasonable for the area and a good  group of guys there...)


I've heard so much acclaim for this stick I had to try it!!

This cigar tasted sweet before the light. Once lit I can say that I have never smoked a more effortless draw.  The cigar is medium to say the least.  The wrapper, binder and filler are 12+ years old and are incredibly smooth but I have to say that there is not quite enough bite for me.. Again tastes very good but not real kick!!