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Bellezia
Smoke Shop
is a Buffalo - Amherst, NY smoke shop. We offer a wide
variety of tobacco products and Accessories. One of
our main focuses is pipe tobacco and we offer an assortment
of both hand blended tobacco and house blends. We also
offer a wide variety of cigars and tobacco related accessories.
If there is something you don't see here, contact us
and we should be able to get it for you.
Bellezia
Smoke Shop offers expert pipe repair and
some of the finest hand crafted pipes from major manufacturers
as well as from our own pipe maker and store owner Milton
& David Kalnitz. - "Bellezia Pipes"
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Specialties
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 Fine
cigars, Handmade Pipes, Over 40 Custom Blended Tobacco's,
All Natural Cigarettes from Nat Sherman and American Spirit.
Come enjoy our smokers lounge with free wi-fi. We offer a
full service pipe repair shop, with all repairs being done
in store. we offer a fantastic selection of cigars featuring
your favorite brands ie: Arturo Fuente, Rocky Patel, Padron,
Gurkha, Oliva, Romeo and Juliet, Macanudo, Punch, and many
many more.
We
hand make briar pipes from 100 year old briar in store in
our full service pipe shop, as well as offering pipes from
Peterson, Savinelli, Stanwell, Nording, Butz-Choquin, and
Ben Wade to name a few. We offer over 30 custom blended pipe
tobacco's and we love making new blends for customers so come
on in and try making your own pipe tobaccco! We also carry
a huge selection of Zippo and Vector lighters. And for all
the roll your own cigarette smokers we carry Peter Stokkebye
premium rolling tobacco available in pouches and in bulk by
the ounce. At Bellezia customer service is our motto, so come
on in with any questions you may have.
History
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 Following
40 years of business on Main Street in Snyder, Bellezia
Tobacco Shop opened a new Amherst location on Friday,
Aug. 31, 2012 on Transit Road in Williamsville. Bellezia owner
Milton Kalnitz said he is extremely excited about the reopening
of the store, which closed its Snyder location in December.
A fire in the business’s building led to its closing.
“We are ready for this grand opening,” Kalnitz said.
“This store is three to four times larger than our former
Main Street store.”
Kalnitz
started the business after beginning to craft a supply of
handmade tobacco pipes about 40 years ago. “At the time,
It was one of only seven businesses in North America that
sold handmade pipes,” he said. Kalnitz said that when
seeking a name for the store in the 1970s, he asked his son
for a name that sounded “romantic.” “Pipes,
to me, are kind of romantic,” he said. “I asked
my son to find a nice romantic name in Spanish. I found belleza,
which means beautiful. I learned I couldn’t use that
name, though, because it was already being used. So, I added
a ‘I’ and took Bellezia, which actually means beautiful
aunt in Italian.”
At
Bellezia, Kalnitz said he has crafted and sold pipes to many
area professional sports stars as well as politicians throughout
his years of business. Kalnitz said he is happy to be able
to carry on the tradition of pipe making with his grandson,
David, who also works at the store. “I am so glad that
our younger generation can carry on this business,”
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