Smoker’s Haven

The selection is more than average but the service was terrible. As soon as I entered the shop, the owner did not leave me alone to look around. He asked what my price range was before I said anything. He was extremely rude even after I complimented his shop for having wide variety of cigars. I am not too experienced with cigar but I knew he grabbed me the worst quality ones from lower shelf. When he was cutting my cigars he didnt not even ask how deep I wanted it. He ended up cutting it way to deep and ripped some of the end. Then he toss my cigars after transaction with fuck off attitude. I will never come here again. The owner needs to learn to respect customers.

Smokers Haven does a nice selection of pipes and cigars with a huge walk in humidor. The store manager, Abe is very knowledgeable and always helpful. Prices are reasonable and the stock does change enough to keep you coming back. I have attended a few of the cigar events they have had, at other venues and all have been what a cigar event should be. They have a good loyal following with a diverse background. With all that said, the store does need a makeover so to speak. The smoking lounge is nothing to talk about. I am surprised with Metuchen being a nice small town they don’t have a nicer lounge with matching furniture. Nothing over the top just a place you would want to sit back and spend an hour or two. As it is, it looks like someone cleaned out a storage unit and had nothing better to do with the furniture. I think if the owners spend a little time to de-​clutter and have it arranged so that you would have a larger/​nicer smoking lounge. More smokers would find themselves staying, spending more time and $$$ in the store as opposed to just a puff of smoke.
I would give it 4 stars but with the store not giving me the warm and fuzzy to want to stay I have to give it a 2.5 Sorry… I need to want to hang around a place…
Remember to drink responsibly.
Crazy Cubano Out

The selection here is terrific. The humidor is HUGE with a great selection from cheaper Don Pepin benchmades to the high end stuff like Montecristos and such. They’ve got a ton of pipe tobacco as well, and not all of it is from Altadis. They are also the only place in the area that sells General snus in the regular 24-​piece cans and not the trial 10 piece packs. I primarily buy snus there since it’s incredibly cheap (4 bucks and change with tax) compared to what I’m used to in Boston (8 and change) and all the varieties are always in stock. There’s also a smoking lounge area with a tv and a fridge and its not bad at all.
The staff seems incredibly knowledgeable and helpful. The only reason i’m not giving it five stars is the man I usually see (the older man with the beard usually wearing a militia hat) is kind of rude to me. I’m not the typical clientele and I understand that but sometimes its incredibly awkward shopping in there. I’m in there about once a week and I always see the same guy and he hasn’t really warmed up to me yet. I’m fairly knowledgeable about cigars but he kind of talks down to me sometimes which is frustrating.
He is incredibly knowledgeable so I can’t fault him TOO much.