Cheese Brakes

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  • Street Cheese’s Courtney Wins US Cheesemonger Championship

    On Sunday, March 12, one half of Street Cheese (Courtney) competed in the Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters competition. This competition took 13 of the best cheesemongers in the country and put them through a rigorous set of tests, including a written exam, a blind taste test, a perfect-cutting test, an oral presentation, and five food service…

  • Street Cheese Prepares for US Cheesemonger Championships

    A web article and radio short published on March 6 highlighted our efforts to attend the Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters this month in New York. Courtney, one half of the Street Cheese team, is one of 13 cheesemongers from across the US competing for a spot on Team USA. The two mongers who win the competition…

  • Street Cheese Interviewed for Seattle Tips

    We were among 22 Seattle-area bloggers and businesses tapped by Redfin’s real estate blog for tips from locals to get the most out of our state’s largest city. We included the viewing windows at Beecher’s Handmade Cheese along with some of our favorite spots in the Ballard neighborhood. To read what we had to say, check out…

  • Community Impact Award Winners Announced

    We are pleased to announce that we have received a Community Impact Award from Business Impact Northwest! The award is presented through our involvement in the ImpactPitch business competition. Community Impact awards are given to businesses in the competition’s first two rounds with the two highest scores for both rounds combined in each of the…

  • Are We Nuts?

    Starting a food business during a pandemic is crazy, right? Truth be told, we didn’t plan it this way–but the pandemic has provided us space to slowly dip our feet into the water, getting used to it gradually rather than taking the freezing plunge. There is a lot that goes into starting a business, and…