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Leslieville Cheese Market
Leslieville Cheese Market in the east end boasts that "everyone at Leslieville Cheese is a cheese expert". Check in with them in the fall about their cheese night school. Or try a Leslieville Cheese Board, 5 pieces of cheese totaling 1 kg. They even have a children's version, featuring a mix of mild cheeses ($35). (I guess you serve it with white grape juice.)
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I also would like to defend them, after reading Ilya's comment, "terrible service, product, prices." I don't have gushing praise but I can honestly say that they are just regular people who are trying to do a good job. I can't imagine how the product is terrible. It's cheese. Cheese is never terrible. Quite simply, "good service, good product, good prices."
Speaking of the neighbourhood, what I'm more interested in is the extremely sketchy and amusing "family restaraunt" right next to the Cheese Market in the picture that seems to be always packed with visitors of questionable nature with at least a few of them smoking outside.
Where is the cheese?
Terrible service with an attitude.
Never go back there again
The baguettes they carry have the perfect amount of crunch and moisture, and the pasta is also really good.
The grilled cheese sandwiches are really flavourful and I was pleasantly surprised by the pear and blue cheese one. B+ however it could become an A+ if there were more cheese in it.
I definitely agree that they put too little cheese in the sandwiches, but the rosemary bread and the nice thai chutney / dip is good. For that reason I would say they are priced well at $7.
They could improve by adding more cheese to their sandwiches.
I just found and read through these postings and thought, my goodness, what a lot of problems they have! I haven't noticed anything so terrible. But then I realised that the comments span 3 years, and so hey, they aren't doing so badly, are they!
I think maybe people get angry and go right home and post things here. Hmmm.... what can I say? I think the woman Leslie Sklar who posted here sounds like she is a very angry person. She's right about what happened with the bread, but that sounds like an employee error. It's funny how she said "If there weren't any other customers I would have been rude!" While I think Leslie is correct that it shouldn't have happened like that, I don't know if it's important enough to go on their "permanent record" so to speak. It's certainly not important enough to never go back to the store. It sounds like she is cutting off her nose to spite her face.
I can say that I get the grilled cheese sandwiches from time to time and that they are excellent. They have enough cheese. They occasionally have more than enough cheese.
I can't see why anyone would say that they are more expensive than anyone else. It's true that cheese is getting expensive these days, but it's the same everywhere.
They have a lot of excellent products that they make themselves, like their pate and all of their dips. And cheesecake :)