Smokin' Shops #2
Matchstix in the Desert?
Update: I just received a photo of the shop from Craig at Matchstix, so I thought I'd bump this post up to the top. Also, for those concerned, this shop's appearance is anything but "run-of-the-mill" as I make mention of below!! So take pride in what you've created! Thanks!
Matchstix Fine Cigars
3305 West Chandler Blvd. Suite 1
Chandler, AZ 85226
(480) 726-STIX [7849]
craig@matchstixcigars.com
Update: I just received a photo of the shop from Craig at Matchstix, so I thought I'd bump this post up to the top. Also, for those concerned, this shop's appearance is anything but "run-of-the-mill" as I make mention of below!! So take pride in what you've created! Thanks!
Our last visit brought us to the Windy City for a stop at Up Down Tobacco. With it’s warm and muggy summers, to the bitter cold of winter, anytime is a good time for a cigar in downtown Chicago. Today we’ll travel southwest to the arid desert, where it seems on any given summer day you’d hardly need a match to light up; just hold your sticks high and let the intense sun do the rest. Welcome to Matchstix Fine Cigars in Chandler, Arizona.
Phoenix is a city of sprawl. With every branch extending from it’s heart you’ll find a new town, a new master-planned housing community, a new mall, a new golf course and a new set of socialites trying to convince you that their town is bigger, better and more livable than the last to crop up just months ago on some desolate patch of vacant dairy farm. What seems to connect these private worlds from Verrado to Mesa, from Carefree to Ahwatukee? Strip malls. A seemingly endless line of strip malls as far as the eye can see, however there is a benefit to all this. Occasionally there can be found a diamond in the rough; an elegant privately owned restaurant, a shop that seems to have any imaginable gift for any occasion, or if you’re lucky a fine cigar shop.
Just across the north parking lot of Chandler Fashion Center, in you guessed it, a strip mall, houses what is a gleaming example of what a cigar shop should be. Here you’ll find Matchstix Fine Cigars. Upon first glance, it may seem as your ordinary run-of-the-mill smoke shop, but the owners and patrons make the difference here. With plush leather sofas and a game or movie showing on the big screen, a glass of wine or espresso in one hand and a stick in the other, I can’t think of a better place to enjoy a leisurely smoke.
There is a fine selection to choose from in a walk-in humidor containing all the staples such like Macanudo, Fuente, Avo and Acid (for the trendy smokers). If you’re lucky, you’ll stumble across some hard-to-finds such as the elusive 1926 Padron. There’s also a decent selection of handcrafted humidors on display as well as a wide variety of gift packs. On Wednesday night, this shop is bustling with aficionados, all engaging in good smokes and great conversation.
Should your significant other feel the need to satisfy a shopping bug, make the suggestion to head over to Chandler Fashion Center, and quietly slip away into Matchstix Fine Cigars. You wont be sorry.
Phoenix is a city of sprawl. With every branch extending from it’s heart you’ll find a new town, a new master-planned housing community, a new mall, a new golf course and a new set of socialites trying to convince you that their town is bigger, better and more livable than the last to crop up just months ago on some desolate patch of vacant dairy farm. What seems to connect these private worlds from Verrado to Mesa, from Carefree to Ahwatukee? Strip malls. A seemingly endless line of strip malls as far as the eye can see, however there is a benefit to all this. Occasionally there can be found a diamond in the rough; an elegant privately owned restaurant, a shop that seems to have any imaginable gift for any occasion, or if you’re lucky a fine cigar shop.
Just across the north parking lot of Chandler Fashion Center, in you guessed it, a strip mall, houses what is a gleaming example of what a cigar shop should be. Here you’ll find Matchstix Fine Cigars. Upon first glance, it may seem as your ordinary run-of-the-mill smoke shop, but the owners and patrons make the difference here. With plush leather sofas and a game or movie showing on the big screen, a glass of wine or espresso in one hand and a stick in the other, I can’t think of a better place to enjoy a leisurely smoke.
There is a fine selection to choose from in a walk-in humidor containing all the staples such like Macanudo, Fuente, Avo and Acid (for the trendy smokers). If you’re lucky, you’ll stumble across some hard-to-finds such as the elusive 1926 Padron. There’s also a decent selection of handcrafted humidors on display as well as a wide variety of gift packs. On Wednesday night, this shop is bustling with aficionados, all engaging in good smokes and great conversation.
Should your significant other feel the need to satisfy a shopping bug, make the suggestion to head over to Chandler Fashion Center, and quietly slip away into Matchstix Fine Cigars. You wont be sorry.
Matchstix Fine Cigars
3305 West Chandler Blvd. Suite 1
Chandler, AZ 85226
(480) 726-STIX [7849]
craig@matchstixcigars.com
Matchstix Fine Cigars
posted by Fumo Santo | 9:14 PM
2 Comments:
This place looks a lot better than what I thought it would look like... Thanks for the Pictures Mike
~Crystal
MATCHSTIX FINE CIGARS USED TO BE A GREAT PLACE TO HANG OUT. THE SELECTION IS LIMITED AS OF LATE AND I PREFER SOME OF THE OTHER SHOPS IN TOWN. PRICES ARE BETTER AND I CAN GET MY MONTE'S ELSEWHERE. ITS JUST NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE.
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