Baytown, Texas
Dannay's opens at four on north Garth with donuts, cinnamon twists and kolaches — cheese, sausage and boudin among the savory ones.
Best for A north-Garth neighborhood doughnut stop
Cheese of United States
57 stores · curated ORBIS register
American cheese counters cut to order, whether the counter is a New York monger bar or a village general store. Murray's Cheese runs monger-guided selections and cheese bar tastings in New York. Grafton Village Cheese ages its Vermont cheddar from a dairy cooperative first organized in 1892. Caputo's Market & Deli sets artisan cheese beside craft chocolate and cured meats. Taste at the counter before the wedge is wrapped: the monger finishes the pairing.
Visit Facebook ↗Junior's
Hidden GemDowntown Brooklyn
Junior's has served its cream-cheese cheesecake from the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension since Harry Rosen opened the restaurant in 1950. The Brooklyn bakery still follows the original recipe alongside a full deli and diner menu.
Best for New York cheesecake
Visit official site ↗Goat.sheep.cow.
Hidden GemChurch Street
Church Street cheese shop and wine bar specializing in European and American farmstead cheeses, cured meats, and provisions cut to order. The counter builds boards and picnic baskets and pours natural wines by the glass.
Best for Farmstead cheese and wine
Visit official site ↗Gene's Sausage Shop & Delicatessen
Hidden GemLincoln Square
This family-run European delicatessen smokes its own sausages and cures meats in-house, filling a Lincoln Square emporium with imported cheeses, breads, and pantry goods beneath a seasonal rooftop beer garden. The counters run to Polish, German, and Eastern European specialties made from old-country recipes.
Best for House-smoked sausage and European deli goods
Gene's Sausage Shop & Delicatessen came to Lincoln Square in September 2009. It took over the space of Delicatessen Meyer, a German-American grocer that had served the neighbourhood for 53 years before closing in 2007. The business behind it is older. In March 1972 two brothers from a farm village in Malopolskie in southern Poland, John and Gene Luszcz, opened a small deli on West Roscoe Street. It specialised in homemade smoked sausage and other Polish foods, drawing on the family's recipes and smoking methods. The shop served the Polish neighbourhood around St. Ladislaus church. After eight years it moved in 1980 to larger premises on Belmont Avenue. A life-size sculpture of a cow on the sign still marks that store. Gene and his wife Alice built it into a European market with forty kinds of smoked sausage made fresh on the premises each day by sausage-makers trained in Europe. Fresh meat is cut to order from the cooler by butchers. Prepared foods and imported specialties fill the rest of the floor. Their delicatessen was featured on the Frugal Gourmet Show and 190 North. The Lincoln Square store at 4750 North Lincoln Avenue was opened as a second full-range European market in the same mould. It has the sausage counter and specialties downstairs and a rooftop above the shop. Weekly specials run across imported pantry goods, from German curry ketchup to barrel sauerkraut, and the counter keeps to the Polish and German lines the brothers started with.
Visit official site ↗202 Allen Street, Hudson, NY
Kate Arding, formerly of Neal's Yard Dairy and Cowgirl Creamery, and chef Mona Talbott, who trained at Chez Panisse, opened this cheese and provisions shop in 2014. The counter curates cheese, charcuterie and Hudson Valley pantry goods under a standard the owners describe simply as: if it doesn't meet it, it doesn't cross the countertop.
Best for Artisanal cheese and Hudson Valley provisions
Visit official site ↗Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Tulip Tree Creamery hand-makes small-batch cheeses and cultured butter in the Indianapolis area, drawing on European cheesemaking tradition and Indiana dairy. The creamery has won a national Good Food Award in 2017, as listed by the Good Food Foundation, and its wheels turn up on cheese boards and restaurant menus across the city.
Best for Artisan cheese and cultured butter
Visit official site ↗Jacinto City, Texas
Village Pizza on Market Street makes the dough daily and tops it with a three-cheese blend. The same counter sends out a seafood platter of clam strips, shrimp and fish.
Best for Independent pizza and seafood
Visit official site ↗East Nashville
Proper Bagel makes New York-style bagels and prepares sandwiches to order in East Nashville. The counter also offers house-made cream cheeses, smoked fish and deli sides for take-away meals.
Best for New York-style bagels, house-made cream cheeses, and breakfast sandwiches in East Nashville
Visit official site ↗Nassau Bay, Texas
Sonia Kotb's Mediterraneo on NASA Road 1 runs a café and a deli case — hummus, falafel, tagines, grape leaves and imported cheeses — with live music on Friday and Saturday nights.
Best for Mediterranean market and cafe
Visit official site ↗Midtown, Manhattan
Bagels in Midtown — hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, enormous, and the fuel that powers New York's working days.
Best for Hand-rolled bagels, cream cheese spreads, and bagel in Midtown.
Visit official site ↗Upper West Side, Manhattan
The original gourmet supermarket — olive oil tastings, cheese caves, and the Upper West Side institution that defined serious grocery shopping.
Best for Gourmet groceries, olive bar, and the UES's original serious supermarket.
Visit official site ↗Greenwich Village, Manhattan
The most slice joint in New York — a thin, foldable, perfectly greasy plain cheese slice that defines NYC pizza culture since 1975.
Best for The classic New York cheese slice — thin, foldable, perfect.
Visit official site ↗Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Murray’s Cheese offers a deep counter of artisan cheeses with monger guidance, accompaniments and cut-to-order service. Tastings and pairing advice help shoppers assemble boards by milk, style and intensity.
Best for Artisan cheese, monger-curated selections, and cheese bar tastings.
Visit official site ↗Putnam Market
Hidden GemPutnam Street, downtown Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Putnam Market makes its prepared foods, baked goods and charcuterie from scratch at a downtown Saratoga Springs storefront, with a wine shop next door. The counters run to cheese, deli sandwiches and picnic provisions.
Best for Gourmet deli, cheese and wine, picnic supplies
Visit official site ↗East Village, Manhattan
An Italian pastry shop since 1894 — cannoli, cheesecake, and traditional sfogliatelle in a beautiful vintage setting.
Best for Traditional Italian pastries, cannoli, and 130 years of East Village sweetness.
Visit official site ↗Di Bruno Bros.
Heritage HousePhiladelphia / United States
Di Bruno Bros. has run its original 300-square-foot "House of Cheese" in Philadelphia's Italian Market since 1939, alongside additional cheese, bottle, and Rittenhouse Square shops across the city. The family business sells cheese, cured meats, and gourmet grocery items in-store and ships nationwide through its online shop.
Best for Specialty food, Cheese, Cured Meats, Gourmet Grocery
Visit official site ↗Pittsburgh / United States
Pennsylvania Macaroni Company, known locally as Penn Mac, is a Pittsburgh Strip District institution selling imported Italian pasta, cheese, deli meats, and olive oil from its Penn Avenue storefront. The shop offers curbside pickup and ships its Italian imports and gift boxes through an online store.
Best for Italian Food, Deli, Specialty Food, Cheese
Visit official site ↗Mission District
Bi-Rite Market is a Neighbourhood grocery with local, organic produce, artisan cheese and house-made provisions.
Best for Farm-driven groceries and prepared foods
Visit official site ↗1435 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101 / Seattle / United States
Seattle specialty house since 1946; one of the city's first cut-to-order cheese, pizza-by-the-slice, and espresso counters.
Best for Cut-to-order cheese, pizza slices and espresso from a Seattle house founded in 1946.
Visit official site ↗Sonoma, California / United States
The Sonoma Cheese Factory has been a purveyor of award-winning cheeses on the Sonoma Plaza for 90 years, now also home to The Butcherman's meats and Sonoma's Best Wine Shop under one roof. The historic shop offers hand-selected cheeses, cured meats, and local wines for purchase in-store or online.
Best for Cheeses, cured meats and local wines on Sonoma Plaza
Visit official site ↗Caputo's Market & Deli
Hidden GemSalt Lake City, Utah (flagship downtown; multiple SLC locations)
Caputo's Market & Deli ages cheese in its own Caves and runs a craft-chocolate program with an annual Chocolate Festival and tasting classes. Cured meats and imported gourmet goods fill out the downtown flagship and its other Salt Lake City locations.
Best for Artisan cheese, craft/heirloom chocolate, cured meats, gourmet pantry
Visit official site ↗Chilmark
At 7 State Road, the Chilmark General Store stocks everyday provisions, local produce, artisan cheeses, and daily-baked baguettes, with a rocking-chair porch that doubles as the up-island village's gathering spot. Its kitchen turns out hand-stretched thin-crust pizza and sandwiches using produce from island farms and the store's own garden.
Best for Provisions, porch pizza, and local specialty foods
The story of a community store in Chilmark begins in 1875, when E. Eliot Mayhew sold almost anything from a building near the present site. Chilmark General Store carries that role into the present at 7 State Road on Martha's Vineyard, close to Beetlebung Corner. Husband and wife Joel Glickman and Jennifer LoRusso took over the lease in 2011 after years of visiting family in the town. Jennifer trained in industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design and led design teams at Target and Pottery Barn. Joel, a Brown University graduate, ran the community garden program for the New York City Parks Department. The shelves hold everyday basics beside specialty and organic foods and beside cheese and charcuterie from Vermont Creamery and Jasper Hill Farm. French baguettes are baked daily, and bread arrives each day from Pain D'Avignon in Hyannis. Produce comes from island farms such as Morning Glory Farm and Grey Barn & Farm, and from the store's own garden 1.5 miles away. The kitchen turns out hand stretched thin crust pizza and sandwiches, served on the porch that works as the up-island gathering place. The owners describe the goal plainly, a community market and pizzeria that keeps a time-honored place the way it is.
Visit official site ↗Clayton Road, Clayton, Missouri
A wine and spirits shop on Clayton Road offering curated bottles, in-store tastings and wine-club memberships, opened in 2020. It hosts private events and assembles gift baskets alongside single-barrel and wine-and-cheese clubs.
Best for Curated wine buying and clubs
Visit official site ↗Milford
Brewing since 1995 in a former early-1900s cheese factory on River Street in Milford, Cooperstown Brewing Company makes traditional ales with baseball-themed names. Its riverside taproom adds an on-site pizza truck, yard games and family outdoor seating.
Best for Traditional English-style ales, baseball-themed beers
Visit official site ↗Cooperstown (61 Linden Avenue)
A family-owned organic grocery on Linden Avenue running since 2004, Cooperstown Natural Foods carries organic produce plus locally sourced cheese, meat, dairy and baked goods, with gluten-free and vegan lines. The full-service shop stocks specialty foods alongside natural personal-care and household goods.
Best for Organic produce and local specialty foods
Visit official site ↗Sister Bay, Door County, Wisconsin
Jesse and Rachael Johnson started with eleven goats in 2011 and opened this Sister Bay creamery in 2013, now milking around 130 goats. They make goat cheeses from chevre to cave-aged wheels, plus goat-milk gelato and soap, sold from an eatery and shop with farm tours.
Best for Farmstead goat cheese and gelato
Visit official site ↗Southside Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Earl Comeaux opened this southside Lafayette grocery in 1979, and although it changed hands and took its current name decades later, the Comeaux family stayed involved through the transition. Boudin, stuffed chickens, turducken and hogshead cheese are all made in house rather than bought in for resale.
Best for Boudin, turducken and stuffed chickens
Visit official site ↗Madison / United States
On Madison's Capitol Square since 2007, Fromagination is a European-style cheese shop whose cheesemongers cut Wisconsin and international artisan cheeses to order. It sells cheese, gift sets and local companions in the shop and ships nationwide.
Best for Cheese shop, artisan cheese, Wisconsin, cheesemonger
Visit official site ↗Grafton, Vermont, USA
Rooted in a dairy cooperative first organized in 1892, Grafton Village Cheese ages award-winning raw-milk cheddars from Vermont cow's milk. Its retail shop sells the aged wheels alongside clothbound, smoked and cave-aged variants.
Best for Aged Vermont cheddar
Visit official site ↗Galena
This Main Street shop pops and flavours around fifty varieties a day, led by an old-fashioned caramel corn plus cheese and caramel puffs. Bags run roughly seven to thirteen dollars, with build-a-box options and a flavour-of-the-month club.
Best for Small-batch gourmet popcorn
Visit official site ↗Pescadero / United States
Harley Farms is a small-scale farmstead goat dairy in Pescadero founded in 1991 by Dee Harley, producing goat cheese from its own herd using traditional methods. Its Farm Shop sells cheese, bath and body products, and gifts on-site alongside guided goat tours and farm dinners.
Best for Farmstead dairy, Goat Cheese, Bath & Body, Farm Shop
Visit official site ↗High Desert Market and Café
Hidden GemOld Bisbee (203 Tombstone Canyon)
A café and gourmet grocer at 203 Tombstone Canyon that bakes everything on premises and serves salads, sandwiches, quiche, and pizzas with daily vegan and gluten-free options. The market side stocks imported cheeses, olives, chocolates, and pottery from India, Spain, Indonesia, and Mexico.
Best for Scratch baking and gourmet groceries
Visit official site ↗Houston Heights, Houston, Texas
Houston Dairymaids sells cheese exclusively from Texas artisan makers out of a 1930s former Sicilian grocery in the Heights, favoring unpasteurized-milk wheels and hosting tastings that connect shoppers to the cheesemakers directly. Founder Lindsey Schechter built the shop around introducing Houston to in-state producers rather than importing internationally.
Best for Texas artisan cheese
Visit official site ↗Minneapolis / United States
Ingebretsen's has been Minneapolis's home for Scandinavian food and goods since 1921, pairing an original butcher shop with an extensive Nordic marketplace on East Lake Street. Shelves hold lefse, imported cheeses, knitting and needlework supplies, Dala horses, and gifts, all available online and by catalog.
Best for Scandinavian Foods, Butcher, Nordic Gifts, Needlework
Visit official site ↗2559 Hwy 174, Edisto Island
King's Farm Market is a seven-generation family farm stand on Highway 174 stocking its own produce alongside pies, breads, grass-fed beef, eggs and cheese. Prepared casseroles and grab-and-go sandwiches round out the shelves, open daily.
Best for Farm produce and Lowcountry baked goods
Visit official site ↗D Street, Davis (beside Pence Gallery)
A specialty food shop that grew from pandemic-era cheese-and-charcuterie boxes into a street-facing market on D Street. Shelves carry tinned fish from Portugal, Spain, and California, West Coast honeys and nut butters, and cheeses, with an in-house bistro in development.
Best for Tinned fish and cheese boards
Visit official site ↗Findlay Market, Over-the-Rhine
A Findlay Market bakery specializing in cheesecakes by the slice, key lime pie and other made-from-scratch desserts. It bakes to order for the counter and for shipping across the country.
Best for Cheesecake by the slice and pies
Visit official site ↗Meat & Cheese Restaurant and Farm Shop
Hidden GemDowntown Aspen (E Hopkins Ave)
Kate Mullen's farm-to-table restaurant sits beside a farm shop selling artisan charcuterie, cheeses and local provisions. The shop's shelves run to pantry goods as well.
Best for Artisan charcuterie, cheese and provisions
Visit official site ↗Onancock / United States
Founded in 2003, North Street Market is a gourmet wine-and-cheese shop on North Street in Onancock stocking curated wines, cut-to-order cheeses, olive oils, aged balsamics and gift baskets. It offers curbside pickup, local delivery and nationwide shipping, and hosts monthly wine-and-cheese tastings.
Best for Wine shop, cheese, gourmet food, olive oil, gift baskets
Visit official site ↗Near Southside
Founded by Chris Magallanes and Ernest Morales as a 2019 food truck, this smokehouse at 201 East Hattie Street cooks over oak and hickory in an offset smoker. Its Tex-Mex-inflected menu is known for pork belly poppers stuffed with jalapeno, cream cheese, and burnt ends.
Best for Tex-Mex-influenced smoked meats and poppers
Visit official site ↗Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin
A fourth-generation, family-owned cheesemaker running since 1961, now led by Chris and Ann Renard alongside their Rosewood Dairy. The Sturgeon Bay shop sells artisan cheeses made to heritage recipes and runs the on-site Melt Bistro.
Best for Wisconsin artisan cheese
Visit official site ↗Rubiner's Cheesemongers
Hidden GemGreat Barrington, MA
Rubiner's Cheesemongers on Main Street in Great Barrington is a serious cheese counter run by the Rubiner family, ripening and hand-selecting artisan wheels from small European and American dairies. A companion cheese cafe serves fondue, raclette and plates built from the shop's aged selection.
Best for Artisan and farmhouse cheeses
Visit official site ↗S. Clyde Weaver
Heritage HouseEast Petersburg / Lancaster, PA
S. Clyde and Emma Weaver started selling smoked meats and cheese from a market stall in 1920, and the family firm still smokes ham, bacon, and bologna the same way from its East Petersburg storefront. It has held a stand at Lancaster's Central Market since the business began.
Best for Smoked meats and cheese
Visit official site ↗Star Provisions Market & Cafe
Hidden GemWestside
On the Westside, Star Provisions runs a gourmet market, bakery, cheese counter and cafe as the specialty-food sibling of the Bacchanalia restaurant. It stocks artisan cheese, charcuterie, bread and pantry goods.
Best for Artisan cheese, charcuterie, bread and gourmet pantry goods
Visit official site ↗Madison / United States
Founded in 1988 by Max Harn Sr. and now run by his daughter Jennifer, Stella's traces its signature hot and spicy cheese bread to a failed empanada dough that baker Coralia Harn recovered by mixing the filling straight into bread dough. Sold from its Regent Street café and still anchored by the Dane County Farmers' Market, the bread now ships nationwide via Goldbelly.
Best for Wisconsin hot and spicy cheese bread
Max Harn Sr. founded Stella's Bakery in Madison in 1988; his daughter Jennifer now runs the business, which has built its reputation on a single accidental invention. Coralia Harn, working the bakery's ovens, was attempting to make an empanada when the dough gave her trouble; rather than start over, she mixed the filling directly into bread dough and sold the result the next day at the Dane County Farmers' Market.
That bread became Stella's hot and spicy cheese bread, now considered a Wisconsin food landmark. The farmers' market remains central to the business; by the bakery's own account, roughly 95 percent of its income still comes from Saturday mornings during market season, even after decades of growth.
The bakery has since moved its storefront to Regent Street, where it now operates as a café serving pastries, sandwiches and coffee alongside its bread. Beyond Madison, the cheese bread ships nationwide through Goldbelly, with a particular following in the Chicago area.
Visit official site ↗Straub's Markets
Heritage HouseForsyth Boulevard, Clayton, Missouri
A fifth-generation family grocer founded in St. Louis in 1901, with its Clayton store on Forsyth Boulevard known for a USDA Prime butcher counter, prepared foods and its long-running chicken salad. The specialty market also bakes, ships gourmet gift boxes and stocks a deep wine and cheese selection.
Best for Specialty grocery, butchery and prepared foods
Visit official site ↗Woodstock, Vermont / United States
Sugarbush Farm has made waxed cheddar cheese and pure Vermont maple syrup on its 500-acre, five-generation Luce family farm outside Woodstock since the 1940s. Visitors get free samples and self-guided tours daily, while the farm store's cheeses, syrups and jams also ship through its online shop.
Best for Farm Shop
Visit official site ↗Minneapolis / United States
Surdyk's is a family-owned Minneapolis institution on East Hennepin, pairing a deep wine, beer, spirits, and THC selection with a cheese shop and deli. It sells online with curbside pickup and delivery and hosts tastings and classes.
Best for Wine & Spirits, Liquor, Cheese Shop, Deli
Visit official site ↗The Cheese Shop
Hidden GemCarmel Plaza, Carmel-by-the-Sea
In business at Carmel Plaza since 1975 and led for decades by cheesemonger Kent Torrey, The Cheese Shop cuts hundreds of world cheeses to order alongside gourmet foods and wine. It ships nationwide and runs monthly cheese and wine clubs.
Best for Artisan cheese and gourmet food
Visit official site ↗Cold Spring and Beacon, NY
An independent cheesemonger with counters in Cold Spring and Beacon selling cut-to-order artisan cheeses, charcuterie and accompaniments. Staff build cheese boards and stock specialty larder goods.
Best for Artisan cheese and charcuterie
Visit official site ↗Chilmark
The Grey Barn & Farm is a certified-organic, grass-fed dairy in Chilmark whose cheesemakers age raw-milk rounds, among them the washed-rind Bon Anniversaire. Its farm store also sells the operation's own beef, pork, eggs, and milk from cattle, pigs, sheep, and chickens raised on the land.
Best for Raw-milk farmstead cheese and organic meat
Visit official site ↗North Conway Nh / United States
This solar-powered market on White Mountain Highway in North Conway stocks organic and local produce, all-natural meats and cheeses, bulk foods, herbs and eco gifts. A farm-to-table cafe and a wellness collective share the site.
Best for Organic grocery, local produce, bulk foods, supplements, eco gifts
Visit official site ↗Milwaukee / United States
The Village Cheese Shop is a European-inspired specialty store in Wauwatosa Village stocking more than eighty artisan cheeses cut to order, plus cured meats, a 300-bottle wine selection, and gourmet pantry goods. Cheesemongers guide tastings at the counter, and shoppers can order online or join the monthly cheese and wine clubs.
Best for Cheese Shop, Wine, Charcuterie, Specialty Food
Visit official site ↗Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA
Locally owned since 2011, this Croatan Highway spot pairs a wine-and-tap-house restaurant with a retail market stocking more than two thousand wines, hundreds of craft beers, and cheeses cut to order at the counter. The market side also carries gourmet pantry goods, glassware, and locally made accompaniments for building a cheese board at home.
Best for Wine, craft beer, and artisanal cheese to take home
Visit official site ↗Walnut Creek / United States
Set in the heart of Ohio's Amish Country, Walnut Creek Cheese & Market sells house-made cheese, baked goods, sausages, and jarred preserves from its store on State Route 39, alongside a second location in Berlin, Ohio. Shoppers can browse the deli, bakery, and bulk foods departments in person or order online for shipping or curbside pickup.
Best for Food & Drink, Cheese, Butcher
Visit official site ↗Milwaukee / United States
Wisconsin Cheese Mart has been a family-owned cheese store in Milwaukee for more than eighty-five years, curating cheddars, goudas, curds, and specialty wheels from makers across the state. Its shops in Milwaukee and Madison are backed by a robust online store shipping cheese, sausage, Pine River spreads, and gift crates.
Best for Cheese Shop, Wisconsin Cheese, Sausage, Gifts
Visit official site ↗Kent, Connecticut
Woodford's General Store in Kent, Connecticut stocks locally grown goods, from produce and pies to jams and cheeses, alongside home-design finds like linens and wearable throws. Weekly delivery and curbside pickup serve Housatonic and Hudson Valley shoppers.
Best for Locally grown goods, from produce and pies to jams and cheeses
Woodford's General Store, at 4 North Main Street in Kent, Connecticut, built its stocking list around a specific shift the company points to directly: families leaving cities for the Housatonic River and Hudson Valley regions full-time, plus shoppers looking to avoid crowds at large grocery stores. The response is a shop built entirely on partnerships with local farms and regional makers rather than distributor catalogues — produce, meats, granola, pies and quiches, eggs, dairy, garlic rubs, coffee, jams, pickles, and cheeses, alongside a handful of Southern-inflected treats. A home-design selection runs alongside the pantry goods: linens, candles, greeting cards, cutting boards, wearable throws, art, jewelry, and hiker's bells round out a shop that is as much a general store for the house as for the kitchen. Access is built around the same convenience pitch — a weekly delivery option, walk-in sales, and curbside pickup — aimed explicitly, in the company's words, at customers 'in the compromised category' who need to limit crowd exposure. The store keeps limited hours, open Thursday through Sunday only, reflecting a small operation built around a specific weekend-driven Litchfield County customer base rather than a full-time retail schedule.
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