Love cheese? Us too. Browsing through my photo library I came across cheese photographs from various restaurants where we dined over the last couple years. The photos bring back memories of excellent meals. I thought I would compile them, thinking the presentations and accompaniments could provide inspiration for serving a cheese course or cheeseboard at the next dinner party.
Morels French Steakhouse, Las Vegas
Guy Savoy, Las Vegas
Custom House, Chicago
AOC, Los Angeles
David Burke Fromagerie, Rumson, New Jersey
Daniel, New York City
Guy Savoy
Alex, Las Vegas
Balthazar, New York City
The Girl and The Fig, Sonoma, California
Carneros Wine Bar, Sonoma, California
With holiday entertaining right around the corner, I’m definitely looking forward to serving cheese. And I’ll be borrowing ideas on presentation and accompaniments from some of these restaurants where we thoroughly enjoyed the cheese course. I like variety, balance of strength and character of the cheese, paired with interesting flavorful accompaniments.
Cheeses:
- Milk: Cow, Sheep, Goat
- Textures: Soft to Hard
- Taste: Mild to Strong
- Various Origins
- A Variety of Shapes and Colors
Accompaniments:
- Bread: Baguette, Fruit & Nut Bread, Herbed Bread, Lavosh
- Fruitcake: Dried Fig Cake, Dried Date Cake
- Nuts: Almond, Walnut, Hazelnut, Pecan
- Candied Nuts
- Fresh Fruits: Fig, Grape, Apple, Pear, Melon
- Dried Fruits: Fig, Date, Raisin, Plum, Apricot
- Honey, Honeycomb
- Chutney
- Fruit Compote
- Fruit Paste: Quince, Apricot, Plum, Pear, Fig
- Cured Meats: Thinly-sliced, Room-temperature
- Olives
- Drizzled Olive Oil
- Duck Confit
- Micro-thin Sliced Onions
- Caperberries
- Roasted Peppers and Tomatoes
- And, of course, Wine!
Classic Combinations:
- Manchego & Quince Paste & Serrano Ham & Green Olives
- Cheddar & Chutney & Apple
- Stilton & Pear & Walnut
- Gorgonzola & Fig & Honey
- Fresh Buffalo Mozzarella & Tomato, Basil and Olive Oil
Do you have a special cheese or an interesting flavor pairing to share?
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What a fantastic post! And look at all the great restaurants you’ve frequented! Lucky girl. I will definitely keep this post handy for the future.
I love fine cheeses of the world! Great post!
Another cheese lover here 🙂 Those look fantastic!
I love cheese too – they’re all my faves – oh, excepts for the blue cheeses (travesty, right?). But other than that…I’m all good!
-DTW
http://www.everydaycookin.blogspot.com
Just look at all of those amazing cheeses!