Tinder Box

Stopped by this great shop today. Good selection of sticks and a very knowledgeable lady to assist in my selections. Nice outdoor area to relax and enjoy a cigar.
Prices are on par with most shops across the country-​very competitive. Based upon the reviews I read about some of the other shops, I recommend this shop highly.

Best cigar friendly good service best selection nice seating downtown to enjoy your cigar and people watch defiantly the best in town and I’ve been all cigar shop I highly recommend

I was very happy with this Tinderbox! Went in with a friend looking for a decent pipe shop, finally found this one! The Riverside Tinderbox was my go-​to for good pipe tobacco and they unfortunately closed. The staff is really wonderful and communicative. I almost broke a jar of of tobacco and they only were concerned with whether or not I was okay and not hurt by possible glass shards, that shows character. They’re pipe selection is grand and their house blends are numerous. With regard to tinned tobaccos, the substantiality of their selection is decent but it could stand to have a little more variety added. The walk-​in is supreme and their house cigars are very tasty. Furthermore, they recommended a wonderful bar that was absolutely suited for my friend and me. Their prices are a skosh high but I understand that it is harder and harder for a full service tobacconist to make it in this current boom if anti-​smoking and online retailers, so In retrospect, it’s worth the money. I am more than willing to pay a smidgen more for goods as long as I can contribute to their staying in business. They also offer online services or over the phone services as well. After I told them I lived quite a distance from them, they were more than amenable to offer their services. They have enough tourist items, beginner-​pipe smoker items and seasoned-​pipe smoker items to make everyone happy. I was also dying of heat and they insisted on providing me chilled water, so I love em’!! I can’t wait to go back in a few weeks.

Lovely man behind the counter was so kind. I just wanted to go in the cigar room to go back in time and remember when I used to go with my grandpa. They have a wonderful selection of fine cigars and some quite lovely accoutrements for a great smoke. We bought a great little trinket for our kid and left happy.

Great place with a healthy selection of cigars. Staff is very attentive especially the young girl. She was beyond helpful and knowledgeable on their stock and cigars. Went in there planning to by a couple of sticks and ended up buying a bunch along with a humidor. Will return.

I was at palms for vacation so I decided to stop by tinder box and check out what I can buy as a gift with very little knowledge about cigars. The gentleman who helped me was very nice and answered any questions i had while helping me choose out the best gift. The staff was very friendly and they had nice items for u cigar junkies!

Pretty lame selection. Staff was friendly, but nothing compelling in the humidor. And what sticks they do have are just insanely overpriced. I’m all for supporting the local tobacconist, but this just feels like an overpriced chain store. Get a 5 pack online for the price of 1 ½ stick here. Better yet, hit Palm Desert Tobacco on El Paseo. Great selection, great prices, friendly staff. The type of family owned brick and mortar shop you’ll want to support.

Enjoy going to Tinder Box and having a smoke with the collection of characters that gather every morning and most evenings. Friendly group of people who are inviting to anyone to sit and smoke with them as they solve the world’s problems.
Good smokes in the Box and fair prices (for California).
Overall a good choice for cigar smokers and intellectuals looking to wax eloquent on subjects they know nothing about (like me)

Average selection at OK prices. Unfriendly staff. Outside area where you can smoke is nice.

Great place! Great people! Dennis is very informative, taking time to get you into a great cigar and a great price.
A must drop by when I’m in town.

While visiting downtown Palm Springs after attending a work-​related conference in Rancho Mirage, I was able to sneak away from my colleagues and do a little cigar shopping. I went to two other stores in the downtown area and each had a dismal selection in terms of variety and the prices were absurdly high even given high tobacco taxes in CA. Felt reserved about Tinder Box, since the quality of each store hinges on the owner and I have visited some real duds in the past, I walked a couple of extra blocks to get there.
What a pleasant experience! Both of the staff working were helpful and friendly. I like to ask for recommendations based on my favorites and ultimately it is easy to tell whether the store employee knows their tobacco. The male employee who assisted me was knowledgeable and made great recommendations including one cigar that I knew I liked and a new one that was wonderful. While it is unlikely that I will be in Palm Springs again anytime soon, I wanted to share that this store is worth visiting and has a good selection and typical prices.

We hit up Tinder Box every time we come to Palm Springs. I enjoy cigars, what can I say?!
I have been to many cigar shops, some good and some bad. While Tinder Box is technically a chain they are all independently run so you get that small business feel. The owner was in this time and I found him to be very social. He recommended a few of his favorites. I can always respect a shop owner when they make recommendations that clearly aren’t solely to line their pockets. You know the ones I’m talking about. They point out the most expensive item and can’t tell you much more than ‘It’s the best!’. This guy was able to describe the experience to me in depth and while his recommendation wasn’t cheap, it clearly wasn’t the most expensive either.
He was very welcoming and friendly which can be a bit of a rarity in the Cigar world when you aren’t a middle aged older guy. My partner also purchased me one of my favorite expensive cigars and the shop owner made a friendly comment that I have a ‘very nice sweety’ It made me smile. I’ll definitely be back on our next Palm Springs trip.

The woman at the counter on April 5, during the Thursday night street fair, was rude and indifferent to my complaint. Yes, it’s a Tinder Box – a chain – and not a higher-​end cigar shop with an owner or staff of real aficionados. But I didn’t need help picking my cigars this time, so against my better judgment I gave it a chance because I had mistakenly thought my local favorite had closed.
I had walked in with a bag of sealed, UNOPENED kettle corn that I was taking home and walked straight to the walk-​in humidor. The woman at the counter immediately barked out to me that I can’t have my bag with me.
That’s fine if they don’t want food in the store (though she would not say why I could not have the bag). But if she would have been more friendly, maybe suggesting she could hold my bag at the counter instead of telling me to leave it outside or on a chair, I might not have walked out.
When a customer comes into a store intending to spend money – my heading straight for the humidor knowing what I was going to buy should have been a signal to a savvy retailer – the operative word is «hello,» not «You can’t go in there with that!»
Then what should follow is something like, «Can I help you find something?» or a friendlier way to deal with customers.
If you want to be helped by a friendlier owner and by folks who know about the cigars they sell, go to Fame, across the street and a bit south just past the Ruby’s restaurant. I had not been to Palm Springs in a year and mistakenly thought it was on the other side of Ruby’s and missed it. I’m glad I found it soonafter my mistake of going to a chain cigar store. I should have trusted my original feeling that these are just a step up from the common low-​end smoke shop.

The staff/​owner was so helpful and friendly. They have a huge selection and prices are reasonable.

The tinder box is my choice in the valley for tobacco even though it is in Palm Springs. This is one of the stores that I do not mind crossing over to go to. They stock not only the top notch cigars and pipe tobacco’s, they also stock a decent selection of affordable cigars.
Be sure to attend one of their amazing cigar dinners to meet a really interesting collection of people from throughout the valley (and across the country).
It is worth the drive to visit this friendly and knowledgeable staffed store.

Palm Springs weekend. Rental upgrade to a Mustang convertible. Cool hat to beat the sun. Poolside wedding and party. Feeling very Rat Pack. I can do that era.
We wander into the Tinder Box looking for something interesting. The smells were wonderful and the staff was welcoming. They pulled out their bin of «affordable» pipes – not cheap – and we found an amazing Italian-​made number straight from the Rene Magritte painting. It’s aesthetically pleasing, felt good in the hand, and was purported to be versatile. Then we move to tobacco. They ask about our likes and dislikes, help us compare tobacco to wine, and select two one-​ounce bags of smooth and sweet shredded leaf to get us started. A few pipe tools (affordable but well-​made) complete the purchase.
I have to say I’ve derived a great amount of pleasure from the stuff they sold us. The tobacco tastes great, the pipe work perfectly, and the little book they handed us on the way out explained exactly how to make everything work properly. The flavors of the leaf closely matched our tastes, just as promised, and the prices were more than reasonable (dangerously so, even, since a bag of the good stuff still cost less than a pack of nasty cigarettes).
I don’t smoke very often, but I’m sure to enjoy that pipe now and then.

Nothing like a visit to the Springs, and when you’re there, make sure you take a visit to one of the many tobacco shops in the area. I chose to go to the tinder box as I was familiar with it back in LA. The folks here are very knowledgeable about their product, and weren’t afraid to call customers out on their bullshit when they came off douchey as they asked for every cigar on the top 10 list of the cigar aficionado magazine. They also have a nice assortment of lighters, I think I saw every Colibri lighter in stock at this place, definitely a nice place to visit for a cigar smoker.