Get Cheese - Where to Find Great Cheese! Report by Pia Proal
Much to our surprise
many of our local restaurants feature cheese plates both as a dessert,
as well as an accompaniment to the meal. With more diverse cheese
selections available, you can find a wide selection in your local
market or at specialty stores such as Formaggio's
Kitchen. This little store is filled with some of the finest artisanal
cheeses around.
More and more restaurants now offer selections of fresh American and European cheeses. You can find familiar varieties, such as goat cheese, Munster, or triple-cream Bries, as well as more exotic cheeses such as Manchego, Dry Jack, and Cabrales on their menu items. If you need to brush up on the varieties that are available or that might suit your palate, you can find descriptions of most of the cheeses at www.cheese.com.
See what cheeses are on the menu at some of these fine establishments:
Restaurant
Notes
Restaurant Details
UpStairs on the Square,
Cambridge
An extensive cheese platter is offered
every evening featuring a variety of Artisanal French, Italian
and American cheeses.
Cheeses are served a la carte in any
combination. Manchego, Drunken Goat, and Keens are just a few
of the chesses on offer. Wine pairings are often suggested.
The selection of cheeses change on
a regular basis. Brebis De Collines, Hillman Farms Goat Cheese,
Fourme d' Ambert and Gariotin are currently on the menu.
The Cheese Plate features 3 different
cheeses and is served with salted and candied whole pecans,
vine-dried raisins and fresh strawberries and a good French
baguette. Current cheese selection includes St Maure de Tourainne,
Manchego and Stilton.
The specialty cheese plate is currently
offered with a glass of 1979 Niebaum-Coppola 'Rubicon'. The
featured cheeses include Blue Moncenisio, Piave Vecchio, Brescianelle
Stagianata and Delice de Bourgogne.
The artisanal cheese plate usually
changes nightly and consist of a goat and cow's cheese. Sauterne
or vin santo chianti dessert wine is offen to paired with the
cheese.
The specialty cheese plate includes
such cheeses as Bartlett Blue, Chabis-Feuille and Brebis au
Espelette with a 2000 Cypres de Climens as the paired wine.
The Cheese Plate offers three cheeses;
one soft, one hard and one blue-veigned. They are usually accompanied
by fresh blueberries or blackberries, raspberries, grapes or
apple slices and freshly baked French style bagette slices.
The Artisian Cheese Selection is served
with Champagne grapes and Walnut Raisin toast points and includes
such cheeses as Cypress Grove Chèvre, Great Hill Blue
and Old Chatham Sheepherding Co.
The dessert cheese plate includes 3
different cheeses, sometimes from the same country or same milk,
along with whole toasted almonds and apricot milk jam.
The cheese course menu is offered as
an appetizer or snack in the bar or as a dessert course. The
cheeses change with the season. Currently on the menu you will
find Trillium, Thistle Hill Tarentaise and Bayley Hazen Blue.
The "Piatto di Formaggi Mista"
is a gourmet aged cheese platter, with Fontina, Goat cheese
and Provolone, Grapes, Italian Prosciutto di Parma, Date and
Almond cake, and Cherry Peppers filled with sharp Provolone
and Ham.
Just for comparison - on the other
coast - their Cheese Plate includes such cheeses as Steinbock
Chevre, Camellia, Yellow Buck Camembert and Myrtlewood just
to name a few.
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