Cancel

    Open app

    Search

    Katra Gala

    4.3 (4 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm

    Katra Gala Photos

    You might also consider

    Recommended Reviews - Katra Gala

    Your trust is our priority, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews. Learn more about reviews.
    Yelp app icon
    Browse more easily on the app
    Review Feed Illustration

    9 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    14 years ago

    Helpful 1
    Thanks 0
    Love this 1
    Oh no 0

    11 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    13 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    Verify this business for free

    People searched for Tobacco Shops 934 times last month within 15 miles of this business.

    Verify this business

    Richmond Cigar Factory

    Richmond Cigar Factory

    3.2(30 reviews)
    2.5 miShockoe Bottom
    $$

    HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE. We walked in this cigar shop and a man around 30 or 40 in sweatpants, Adidas…read moreslides and dirty socks comes downstairs. The first red flag was noticing that the cigars are not humidified! There is a front door and then you walk into another door where the the cigars are. The second door is wide open, and not properly humidified. The man asked if we were veterans and we told him both of us were. The policy posted was 20% for veterans. He looked at us and said "I'll make it 50% off for you two!". We asked him about 3 or 4 cigars and ended up getting two of them. We went to put them back in their box and he says "I'll do it!". As if we couldn't figure it out for ourselves. He was rude to other customers that came in after us as well as some people that were just sitting outside at the patio table. We go to check out and ask if he needs to see our military ID and he says no and something about trusting veterans and their honesty. He tells us the total is 29.70. Which is much more than it should be with the 50% off he promised. I tip $5 because he was helpful finding a specific flavor. We noticed the price was way off but didn't say anything and let it go. We go across the street to Havana '59 to smoke and the cigars are COMPLETELY dried out. We had to order from the restaurant which were accurately priced and humidified. After dinner we walked back across to Richmond Cigar Factory and politely ask the man for a refund. We show him the dried out cigar, and slightly bent it to demonstrate how dried out it was and it ended up snapping in half. He says he can't refund us. We ask for a refund on the other unbroken one and bring up the fact that he lied about giving us a military discount. He tries to cover up his lie by saying he meant to say he was trying to "convince the owner to do 50% discount for vets", when he CLEARLY stated he would give us 50% off. He continued to argue with us about getting a refund. He told us that he's going to call the cops because "a lot of cops smoke cigars and can agree that they are good cigars". We tell him that's insane and then says we can just call the cops and then deal with it "in the courts". He walks away and goes behind the register and we follow him to the counter thinking he's about to refund us and he tells us to go to the other side of the store near the door. He comes back around with nothing and then starts looking out the windows for a person that may potentially come inside the store to "ask them for their unbiased opinion" on what a ideal moisture content of a cigar should be. He walks outside and we follow as well taking a seat at the patio table. Eventually a couple approaches the shop and he asks them if they're knowledgeable about cigars. The guy says he knows a little bit, and we explain the situation on how the cigars are complete garbage and how the seller won't give us a refund. I pick up the cigar that is snapped in half and show them how it crumbles. The couple walks away after noticing this store and seller are not worth lies and dried out, over priced cigars. The seller gets irritated and he goes back inside grabs a random twenty dollar bill and I ask him for the remaining $9.70 he owes me for the other one we couldn't smoke. He goes inside again and then slams the door and locks it. You are better off going to your local park, snapping a branch off a pine tree and smoking that. Anywhere but here!

    I don't even know where to begin. From the over priced dried out cigars, to the shop keeper being…read moreso disrespectful that he jumped in my face with his hands waving around my head asking me in a yelling tone "What do you want!" He charged my friend and I 18 bucks per cigar, when asked why he told us to "Look around!" Referring to the location. I have lived in Richmond for 13 yrs, and I have never spent 18 bucks on a fat bottom Betty. When asked if hd could cut said 18 dollar cigar so that I could take it with me. He refused initially, then took it to the back and lopped it off with a box cutter. Tearing the cigar into pieces. I asked why he would do such a thing he simply stated "You wanted it cut right?" If someone is willing to get into your personal space because they know that they are wrong, and overprice your cigars go the opposite way!!! I want to believe that the owner is way more pleasant and kind. I want to believe that we can as POC support this POC owned business. However....that Saturday was both scaring and bewildering. At the behavior of the shop keeper, the prices, and my overall experience there.

    Photos
    Richmond Cigar Factory - Just on a chill

    Just on a chill

    Richmond Cigar Factory
    Richmond Cigar Factory - Dried out cigar cracking as it burns.

    See all

    Dried out cigar cracking as it burns.

    Katra Gala - tobaccoshops - Updated May 2026

    Loading...
    Loading...
    Loading...