For those of you who obsess over cheese, or whose diets consists of at least 75% dairy, listen up: there's a new World Champion cheese, and her name is Agou Ossau-Iraty, she hails from southwestern France, she's made of raw sheep milk, and she can be yours in San Francisco if you can afford it.
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Where To Buy The Best Cheese In The World In SF
Make Your Own Mozzarella: 11/16
Cheese. It's why we live. Is there anything better than cheese? Probably not. Even some vegan cheeses are good. Very good. So is (dare we say) the occasional yellow jar cheese bought and consumed at a liquor store under the duress of binge drinking. Oh please. Don't you judge us. For we, like you, love cheese. And since you love it so much, isn't it high time you learned how to make it yourself? Enter Italian cheese expert Arcangelo "Lino" Esposito of Belfiore Cheese in Berkeley. He will head Urban Kitchen SF's fall cheese workshop, teaching you the secrets of making ricotta and pulling mozzarella from curd.
SFist Eats: The Melt
Just last week burgeoning grilled cheese (internet?) startup, The Melt, held a a surprise preview at their very first SF location. SFist was able to take a quick peak inside. The Michael Mina backed QR code expediting chain is opening their first space at 115 New Montgomery at the end of this month. With "grilled cheese in one minute" technology and online ordering, The Melt's founder Jonathan Kaplan (Flip Video founder) hopes to achieve national dominance with over 500 locations.
Mission Cheese Opens
By Stevie Burnich After two years of cross country travels and much planning, Sarah Dvorak’s Mission Cheese finally opened its doors at 736 Valencia. (Be sure to read her blog about the shop, too!) At first glance, the space itself appears more cafe than than fromagerie. However, with a selection of over 30 domestic cheeses, pressed sandwiches, mac and cheese, raclette, and beer and wine license on the way, Mission Cheese is more of an amalgamation of both. Their cut to order selection houses a wide range of hand selected, small produced offerings ranging from Northern California standards such as Cypress Grove’s Humboldt Fog and Cowgirl Creamery’s Red Hawk, to East Coast favorites from Jasper Hill Farms, and Wisconsin’s lesser known cheesemakers, like Roelli Cheese Haus and Hidden Springs Creamery.
This Sunday: Artisan Cheese Festival in Petaluma
Does dairy compose 75% of your diet? Yes? Then we have a lot in common. Also, there's a good chance we might see you Sunday at the Artisan Cheese Festival in Petaluma, an annual ode to local cheese. Sure, the word "artisan" gets tossed around too much these days (each time you say "artisan donut," an angel gets slaughtered and turned into sashimi), but its rightfully neighbor is cheese. Delicious cheese. Perfect cheese. Calming cheese.
The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Now Open
Realizing that we here at SFist subsist on a 75% dairy diet, the American Grilled Cheese Kitchen (1 South Park Avenue) opened shop this week around the corner from us, just off South Park on Second Street. As of 11:30 a.m. today, the line was growing just around the block. And how.
Cowgirl Creamery Wins 'Small Business of the Year' Award
Although difficult to make Rotel dip out of their top-drawer fromage, Senator Mark Leno will honor esteemed Cowgirl Creamery today as Senate District 3's Small Business of the Year.
Brian Boitano Food Cart at Precita Park
The food cart craze has taken off over the last couple of years. (So much so that people are more than willing to wait an hour to eat grub served to them... from a truck. Shudder.) But what a ride it's been, yes? On Saturday, a car company-sponsored "Best Of Tours" took to the streets -- taking your hungover SFist and other local food scribes around town for a day of binge eating -- hitting such gastronomic hot spots as Fisherman's Wharf, Let's Be Frank at Crissy Field, Veronica Salazar's El Huarache Loco at Alemany Farmers Market, and the Creme Brulee Cart outside La Cocina.
Fondue Cowboy: Comfort Food Comes to SOMA
After white-knuckling a Tablehopper absence -- Marcia Gagliardi, you see, is in the process of writing a book, hence her two-week sojourn offline -- we were relieved to find her waiting in our inbox today. One item that caught our tongue was news about the upcoming Fondue Cowboy, scheduled to open in the heart of SOMA very, very soon. Tablehopper reports, "What I found at the cozy 40-seat eatery at 1052 Folsom at Russ Street was a more grown-up spaghetti western theme. When I arrived, owner David Mur, and his construction friend Robert Harris were embellishing the bar you'd, ahem, saddle up to with warm multi-toned wooden planks that fill the base of the fondue, beer, and coffee bar. The opposing accent wall will feature cow skulls, Western-themed art, and here's to hoping, The Duke himself on the flat-screen TV!" What's more, since the place has a bar and involves pots of melted cheese, we plan on making it a home away from home. We're not kidding. Read more about Fondue Cowboy here.
Weekend Events
DIY, fashion, cheese, and pride -- who could ask for anything more?! Here are just a few events going on this weekend:
Unwrap Those Slices: 2nd Annual Norcal Grilled Cheese Invitational
Since the economy is down the bidet, now more than every before folks are getting by and a few slices of American Cheese and buttered bread set to a sizzling, non-stick pan. So this year's Grilled Cheese Invitational promises to be its most creative yet.
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