This was really a surprise.

I just like to browse in places. I must drive shopkeepers halfway to mad-town with my perusing and enthusiasm without actual purchasing. The Cheese Shop is perfect for it, despite being so small, with it's range of exotic cheeses from all over the place. It has delicious cheese from Wales, presumably produced by some sort of quixotic cheese monster, it has delicious cheese from England. In fact, that's kind of what this place does. It has delicious cheese.

They don't seem to really be advertising the fact that they do a cheese plate, but its such amazingly fantastic value that if you're remotely at all feeling like sitting and tasting a bunch of cool cheeses, this is the place to do it. Cheese plates tend to be the domain of expensive restaurants, often costing as much as a cheap meal from somewhere like the aforementioned Musashi. However, The Cheese Shop offers face-gasm type cheeses at somewhere around $10 for domestic cheeses and $15 for international. That was for the two of us mind you, not each. And for some reason, the lady there (which it must be noted was UBER nice) gave us a good mix of cheeses for $11, along with some rad thinly sliced bread and quince stuff that tasted great with all the cheeses.

I had never tried Gorgonzola before, so that was a delightful discovery. Such deliciosity! The blue cheese was nice, as was the hard cheeses and the triple cream. And the other ones. For a cheese newbie such as myself, I was somewhat spoilt with riches. We took our time with the delighting of the cheeses and even though I was feeling somewhat sick with the richness of it all afterward, it was definitely awesome. And that's what we're totally about.