The Bea’s Knees Wine Cheese & Gifts

GO INSIDE.
I’ve walked by this place a million times going to Copa Vida and I finally decided to walk in. What a gem! It has a charming small town feel to it and, more importantly, a great selection of wine and cheeses. I walked out with a Pasadena muffuletta sandwich and I’m currently in a very blissful food coma. I’m definitely going to start stopping in on my way to coffee.

Just happened upon this little amazing shop! Actually the warm savory aromas wafting thru Stats Flowers was beckoning to me. I had no choice, I was a prisoner. The store is small with every nook and cranny filled with wondrous spirits and wines, cooking oils, Italian pasta sauces, trinkets, etc.
There’s the cheese counter. It made me speechless. Too many cheeses, too little time!
They also have a delectable dessert counter with the most heavenly looking pastries all baked in house.
I opted for a hot, made to order panini. They use an amazing house made spicy Aoli that was so delicious, it just made the panini pop!
Unfortunately they don’t sell it by itself.
Prices are surprisingly reasonable for their menu and actually I had to wrap the panini because it was so large and couldn’t finish.
It’s a wonderful place and I’ll be coming back to enjoy again!

I love cheese, and I love puns. So… this place is as good as it can get for me. Tried the best goat cheese I have ever had here. And that is saying a lot. Also got a blue. Delicious. Almost got the buffalo cheese (which tasted amazing!). I could spend a ridiculous amount of money here. I’m eating the goat and the blue right now, and I’m just in heaven.

If you like plastic in your sandwich, this is the place for you. I ordered a muffaletta. Noticed something stringy. They had not removed the plastic casing of the mortadella prior to slicing it. I had eaten some of that plastic before I realized it was there. What place that serves cold cuts doesn’t know to remove the plastic??!
If you like to have the guy who’s making your sandwich stop mid-​making, to completely abandon it to make sure the the only other customer there, the bitch with the I’m-better-than-you attitude, to make sure he gives complete attention to her to take her order and assure her that it’s coming right up, while your sandwich is literally in the middle of being made, then this also is the place for you.
If you enjoy being accused of not paying for your sandwich, then, again, this is the place for you. The guy who rang me up had stepped away. The guy who was making my sandwich (the same one who stopped in the middle to placate the self-​possessed bitch), brought it over to me, but held it away from me (!) while asking if I had paid. Because I would take food I hadn’t paid for?
When I pointed out items 1 and 3, above, to them, they just stood there with their mouths gaping. They don’t even know how to properly apologize. Forget about mentioning item 2. That would just make them mute.
This was on Sunday, 2÷16÷14, late morning. I meant to call the Pasadena health department. Will call them next week.