Grocery Stores
Global Cheese
Globe Cheese in Kensington Market is one of the best cheese stores in the city. There are a range of domestic and imported cheeses, some unpasteurized; as well as fresh feta, olives and smoked fish. When they have it in stock the goat's brie is tough to beat.
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A number of comments have been removed from this post because it has become obvious that they are all coming from the same person using multiple names. The same person is also commenting in a post for a competing cheese shop. It's lame. Please stop. Thanks.
Note: they did agree to an exchange, but I shouldn't have had the hassle in the first place.
On Products - I haven't had too many issues with the cheeses that I have brought home. My only real beef is that they sometimes give you significantly more than you asked for, and sometimes don't show you when they weigh it out, and you can't quite talk to them properly behind that wall of cheese. Then you go pay for it and realize how much it is - not cool.
My only thoughts on getting a bad product are to ask them to just cut you something off of the same block. Sometimes I go to the left side of the store (looking from the entrance) where there is less of a cheese-wall so I can make sure I see what is going on for the whole process.
This place is okay - good deals and wide selection.
Global Cheese also has a shop on Norseman (by Kipling) in Etobicoke.
Limited but free parking too!
The boursin (garlic cream cheese) is awesome. they used to have a sign on the vat of it saying "with GARLIC grows hair on your chest." Smear some on European Meats (2 doors away) keilbassa and you're in heaven. The tubs of grated parmesan (4/ 5 bucks?) are fantastic. I can usually dump half a container of supermarket parm on a plate of pasta and barely taste it. This stuff requires perhaps a teaspoonful. I just picked up some Havarti with dill for 4 bucks a pound. Last time I got very zippy aged cheddar for 5 bucks a pound. I've served this stuff to friends relatives and coworkers and never had a person who didn't adore it.
And, yes, when you go there, they'll serve the next customer if you dither about like a twit. So will European meats. But you're in and out in 5 minutes, having had five samples and having spent less than what Cracker Barrel edible plastic costs for REAL cheese.
Finally, you're buying real cheese. Dont want it to go off? rewrap it once a week.
My Swiss girlfriend, I think would have broken up with me over it had she had not given me the "well, you're Canadian. How would you know the difference?"
"My Swiss girlfriend, I think would have broken up with me over it had she had not given me the "well, you're Canadian. How would you know the difference?" "
Really, dude? That has all the authenticity of "Dear Penthouse: I never thought I'd be writing to you but..." Like the use of the word "putrescence" and "cadaverine" it betrays a writer who is too clever by half, suggesting an author who has watched too much Monty Python rather than an actual human with an opinion rather than an agenda.
What part of "It's lame" didn't you get?
But dont take my word for it folks. Check out the reviews at the other site that comes up when you enter "Global Cheese" on Google. Those folks blather on about the $400 cheeseburger they had in Luxembourg last week. They adore this place and would certainly pillory it if anything was amiss. And there's no mention of this bait and switch, rotten cheese bullshit.