Cheese Matters

Cheese Heaven & Romance in Santa Barbara

We are fortunate to have access to treasures like The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills where cheeses from all over the planet can be sampled and taken home to enjoy.  Now, Santa Barbara has one of the legends of the cheese shop world right in the heart of the city.  Kent Torrey opened a branch of his famous Cheese Shop of Carmel and boy-oh-boy are people in Santa Barbara happy.  Kent’s store is easily found near Nordstrom, in the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center.  It’s called Cheese Shop Santa Barbara and they’ll teach you and taste you on cheeses while you pick out your selection.  I love this quote from Kent, “Instead of working with paints on canvas—we work with cheese and condiments to help customers create a beautiful and delicious cheese plate.”

Santa Barbara is so close you can drive up there in less than two hours and on less than a tank of gas.  All of my friends there go to Kent’s store and they get everything they need to have a terrific  picnic.  The Cheese Store of Santa Barbara’s tag line is so appropriate, “The Gourmand’s Mecca.”

The Cheese Store Santa Barbara has it all: gourmet foods, wines and, of course a huge cheese selection. Two hundred beauties from around the world of cheese are just waiting for you to take them on a romantic picnic.  The Cheese Store even has the rare Barely Buzzed, an American original cheese that is aged in coffee and lavender buds.

Why not bundle up and go to the beach and watch the pelicans dive into the sea, while you share some amazing cheeses with someone special.  What an amazing life that we have here in California.  Enjoy!

The Cheese Store of Santa Barbara
Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center
811 G State Street (near Nordstrom)
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 884-9463

By Barrie Lynn / The Cheese Impresario

TheCheeseImpresario.com
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