Drove up from Roanoke the other day to review the two tobacco shops there in Lynchburg. A buddy of mine wanted me to write a ""Tobacco Shop Review"" for his private magazine. The magazine was an experiment he started three years ago. Today he has 250 subscribers in VA and 120 nation wide. The magazine is all about the love to tobacco, and new subscribers must be recommended by a current member. Anyway, when I got to Tarazona Tobacco & Coffee Co. I was pretty impressed by the look of the inside, (as far as the lounge look goes), but once I got past that my opinion changed real quick. There was a poor slection of cigars, considering the term ""purveyor of fine cigars"" has been used to describe Tarazonas. I was the oldest person there along with about 5 very younger looking people sitting around. The most embarrassing part was when I attempted to get coffee. There where two coffee pots out, and both where empty. When I politly asked if they were going to make more coffee, the guy working rudly snapped, ""Yeah, IF and WHEN I feel like!"" Even the little community this place was in was a joke. It was like a ghost town, or some post apocolyptic set built for a Twilight Zone episode. I wish this site allowed people to award only half a star, because that's exactly what this place needs, or no star at all.
Pros: Lounge looks nice.
Cons: Poor employee attitude (something you have to have in the cigar industry), poor slection, unfriendly atmosphere.
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