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| - I love this place - both as a store and as a snack bar. It's a great, unique idea for a store/bar, and the quality of the food/drinks and service couldn't be better.
As a store, Good Cheese has a wide variety of interesting products to buy and bring home. As the name implies there is an interesting, constantly changing rotation of cheeses, including some really unique ones. There are also some great things to put on cheese (mini onions, pickles, etc) and great things to put cheese on (crackers, fresh bread and pretzels). It's a great cheese store - way more friendly and interesting than the more standard ones on the Danforth.
As a bar, Good Cheese is a quiet, kinda romantic place to grab a drink and some really good snack food, including plates of the same unique cheese noted above. There is seating for about 20, in a really nice atmosphere. Their beer and wine selection is similarly unique, and I've really enjoyed the selections I've tried. The food is also excellent - the "kitchen plate" which combines cheese with a bunch of other snackables is my favourite. I've been taking friends here as a "pre-dinner/drinking" spot (since it's open until 10 pm on Fri/Sat), and it's been a big hit.
The two owners (I think they're the owners?) are also very friendly and approachable, and happy to give you some guidance if you don't know much about cheese.
I only have two complaints. One, the seats at the back of the store/bar are not as nice, since there isn't much back there. I always try to sit at the bar, or the tables closer to the front. Second, there isn't a lot of posted information about the cheese on the store side. Their Instagram feed gives weekly updates about their selection, but in store it would be nice if there was a list of what the different cheeses are, and what they're like, for cheese noobs like me.
Overall, this is a great addition to the neighbourhood, and I will be back often!
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