Bougie's Cheese Shop in La Mesa Village occupies the historic Levy House, a 1920s Craftsman kit home on Date Avenue now converted into a retail cheese and charcuterie destination stocking over seventy artisan varieties. The American-made cheese program pairs directly with the local wine-flight format at La Mesa Wine Works in the Village, connecting two tasting categories that share flavor-profile overlap in acid, fat, and tannin structure. Opened in December 2024, the shop sources roughly ninety percent of its inventory from small-batch domestic producers and local San Diego makers, rotating seasonal selections as artisan production cycles allow. The charcuterie board menu ranges from a three-cheese, two-meat format for six to eight guests up to a four-cheese, premium-tier build for sixteen to twenty, assembled to order alongside the same La Mesa Village foot traffic drawn to Public Square on the boulevard. The rear patio, called The Porch, provides covered and uncovered seating with fire pits and fountain landscaping configured for private cheese-tasting events and wine-pairing classes.