Cheese Shops

Artisanal Cheese

Artisanal Premium Cheese began in the dining room of the two-star Michelin restaurant, Picholine in New York City. Everything about Artisanal is rooted in culinary excellence.

With a mission to curate the world’s finest cheeses, Artisanal selects from thousands worldwide to offer 200 remarkable, unique, and handcrafted cheeses.

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Bedford Cheese Shop

From the Bedford Cheese Site:

Maybe the best way to tell you about The Bedford Cheese Shop is to tell you what we aren’t. We aren’t a supermarket that happens to sell cheese. Nor are we part of a big chain, or owned by a multi-national corporation. And we aren’t an e-tailer that’s just in the business of selling cheese online out of a huge warehouse. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Citarella

A destination for the discerning, Citarella is regarded as a top food mecca in New York City and the Hamptons.

Mike Citarella created Citarella in 1912 on Broadway & 164th Street in Harlem’s Sugar Hill section of New York. A jewel of a store where fish was piled high on marble slabs, sawdust scattered the floor and dedicated employees were quick to help customers.

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Essex Street Market

In the early years, Essex Street Market’s identity was shaped by the Lower East Side’s Jewish and Italian immigrants, who served as both the merchants and the customers.  Local residents got personalized service as they gathered to browse a diverse collection of goods and sundries including flowers, meats, clothing and fresh produce.

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Formaggio Essex

Formaggio Essex developed out of Ihsan and Valerie Gurdal’s desire to recreate the “market experience” they enjoy so much on their many epicurean journeys. The store’s 225 square foot space is resplendent with beautifully wrapped and bottled jams, honeys, mustards, vinegars, olive oils, and cured meats from small producers around the world.

 

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Formaggio Kitchen

Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge, Mass is a unique gourmet food shop specializing in small production artisan cheeses and charcuterie, hand-made sweets, staples for your pantry, hard-to-find spices and salts, and gifts for food lovers everywhere.

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Murray's Cheese Shop

From the words of Rob Kaufelt:

Murray Greenberg (never met him; he died before I got here) was a Jewish Spanish civil war veteran and communist who opened a wholesale butter and egg shop a few doors up Cornelia street in 1940. The old timers tell me that even though he was an old leftie, he was still a street smart capitalist who used to buy cheese cheap and trim it and sell it. In the 70's he sold the shop to his clerk Louis Tudda, an Italian immigrant from Calabria.

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Saxelby Cheesemongers

Saxelby Cheesemongers offers a premier selection of American farmstead cheese, focusing on cheeses produced in the Northeastern United States.

Anne Saxelby, proprietor of Saxelby Cheesemongers, has a strong background in American farmstead cheese, having started her career as a cheese maven at Murray’s Cheese in the West Village, and subsequently worked on numerous farmstead dairies in the US and abroad.

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Stinky Bklyn

Stinky is a cheese shop on Smith Street in the Boerum Hill / Carroll Gardens neighborhorhood of Brooklyn. The store offers a wide variety of speciality, domestic and imported cheeses from all over the world. In addition to Cheese, Stinky offers a curated selection of speciality foods and gift platters.

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