Foremost Liquor Market

For the 01÷09÷16 drawing, I got the Powerball number and they said the prize was worth $ 3. When I looked online, it says that the prize was worth $ 4. I’m going to keep this post up until I get a valid reason for shorting me $ 1.

This is a great, local liquor store. The guys that work there are always very friendly.

A little dated but still a large clean liquor store with a friendly staff. Surprisingly large selection of spirits; seemed like every major category got at least 7 to 10 feet long of multiple shelf space and a lot of variety. They actually had a vodka from Mexico which I found rare. I didn’t notice a very large craft brew selection but there was definitely a presence and a good amount of it cold. Also thought the prices on spirits was lower than usual for an independent place.

This place is so good I’m almost scared to write a review on it for fear of getting the word out to all the other hipsters.
Guys running it are really friendly and even though I’d only been twice they remembered me from the first time.
Go. Check it out. Show them some love.
I would possibly ignore the old reviews because this place has the feeling that there has been some revamping going on. Craft beer & great liquor. I got a bottle of parabola and have NEVER in the last four years found one. I got the last bottle but seriously these guys are working to give you good stuff.

This liquor store looks any just plain liquor store. But it’s well stocked with all the beer, liquor, and wine that you can’t think off. The service is friendly always willing to help with any questions that you may have on their products that they carry on their shelfs.
Did I also emotion that they had a big winner. Win the lotto here.

Just your standard liquor store. They have a large selection of wines and hard alcohol [missing a few top quality brands here and there], along with any cold drink you would normally buy.
They have great beef jerky… $ 2 a slab means it has to taste good. And it does. to me.
I didn’t receive any rude customer service in particular nor was I denied any privileges to shop around. This gets 3 stars for being average. Really can’t write any more than that.

Tommy is good guy.
The others are grumpy and kind of have the look of «pay and get out of here».
Store needs some remodeling and reminds me of a rest stop in the middle of the country.
Music, better shelves and a positive attitude would greatly make me go in here more.

Very unfriendly — hung up on my multiple times!

Good service wide selection of booze.

It’s old on the outside, old on the inside. I love it. The maintained, but not redone character is a draw for me. This place also has been used for commercials, so you know it has character. I have always had good service here. Selection for liquor, wine and beer is very good. I always would like more beer selection of course, but they have a very international selection and plenty of craft beers. Big thumbs up for Hitachino White Nest Ale from Japan in big bottles.

I have to agree with George. OK, so maybe the rude individual I encountered was not the owner, but he needed a bit of help in the customer service department.
Case in point: I went in to purchase a bottle of wine and a six-​pack of beer. I’ve frequented this store for the past two years, since moving to the area. Naturally, the man at the counter carded me. Upon seeing my driver’s license photo, he asks, «How old is that photo?» I replied honestly, «About a year.» He then proceeds to tell me that I look different. OK, fine. But then he goes on to say that he thinks I have gained weight since the picture! I was incredulous.
I thought perhaps he was questioning the authenticity of my ID, but, hey — I’m 39, and I may not look it… but I certainly don’t look 20!
I had to come to the conclusion that, even if he was right (maybe five pounds?), he was way out of bounds telling me so.
A new market — Fresco — just opened right down the street on Monterey and Avenue 60 /​Via Marisol. They are always polite, have a great beverage selection, and best of all, no one there has ever told me I was fat! Bet you can guess where I’ll be taking my business.

Foremost liquor is foremost owned by a rude and demeaning storeowner. He was derogatory at the register and unapologetic. Go to an independent storeowner that actually cares about their customers!

I have lived in this neighborhood for the longest time and never went to this liquor store until now. It is a staple of South Pasadena. The store looks tiny from the outside. However, when you go inside, it has an enormous selection of alcohol! WOW! I totally believe in supporting local businesses and this is one that I will consider frequenting in the future. Yes, the décor in the store seems to be stuck in the 80’s but it gives this store a nostalgic character.

Always has an excellent stock of wines, liquor and obsucre stuff like Honeyager. The guys that work there are always friendly. Good place to buy lottery tickets too! Our neighbors won 110 million!

It’s really a 3.5 star rating here, but whaddyagonnado. i am obliged to say for like the 5^th or 6^th time that Unilocal,though I do love thee, you don’t let me rate by the half star and c’mon, you know i’m not askin’ for a lot here!
anywhoozers, what does it say that this is the 2^nd liquor/​wine store i am reviewing in as many days – hmmm, bad economic times gotcha down?
nah, maybe i’m just bored and thought i’d do a liquor survey of some of the main offerings in the area to the north of me… yea, that’s it!
soo…yes it’s kinda dusty in here and the wine selection is no trader joe’s or bev mo’ (both in the immediate area), but if both are closed and if gerlach’s is not within striking distance (a much better mom and pop true wine store), then foremost is not a bad choice.
kind of a depressing convenience store is sandwiched in between a decent liquor section to the far right, and the ‘wine cellar’ to the left. pretty decent selection of wines, and quite a few ports as well, but DON’T expect:
1. Any form of wine banter/​recommendations coming from the mildly friendly but non-​engaging staff
2. Any clear and consistent pricing of the wines – many have only a small tag on the bottle only, and some have no pricing at all. kinda hard to make selections and a pain in my ass to ask the aloof staff to gimme all the prices.
It goes without saying you’ll also get the dust factor here, which i don’t mind so much, considering wine is probably the only purchase i’ll dust off before taking happily home to booze it up…

My hubby grew up in South Pas and has fond memories of the Foremost LIquor Shop. I can just picture a deliquent form of a now mild mannered high school teacher, skate board in hand, curly blond fro, mouthing off about «bitches» to his buddies. And while that picture, at least to me, is funny… it doesn’t mean that the Foremost should still look and feel like it’s the early 80s inside.
There’s a «card» rack in the back… a wire holder of birthday greetings and such, that holds cards that I swear date to those days of yore when young hub-​meister was darkening their parking lot. I mean, these cards are covered in dust. We actually bought one last year to give to a friend as a joke.
As for the liquor selection, I guess it’s adequate. The beer selection is better. The wine selection sucks. They run out of ice a lot in the summer. They need to dust more in there. Seriously.