Best of Boston
Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
When you need to provision aperitivo hour, head to one of Formaggio’s three local shops (pictured) to chat up staffers overflowing with cheese-world facts. The [...] read more»
2019 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
Overflowing with the region’s best aged and fresh curds, Formaggio is a bona fide turophile’s haven. But even those without extensive cheese knowledge will enjoy [...] read more»
2018 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
Milky, stinky, pungent, sharp—it’s all here for the tasting. From black-truffle-studded Piedmontese Robiola to the funkiest of Vermont blues, Formaggio has been slicing up an [...] read more»
2017 Best Cheese Shop
Eataly
Boston
You know you're close to Eataly's tempting cheese counter when you spot the larger-than-your-face wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano—and catch a whiff of formaggi in its many [...] read more»
2016 Best Cheese Shop
American Provisions
South Boston
With as many as 80 varieties of small-batch fromage available, this Southie shop is small on space but big on nutty, pungent flavor. Staffers are [...] read more»
2015 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
If your idea of heaven smells like stinky blues and buttery Comté, welcome to paradise. True nerds du fromage shouldn't miss Formaggio's classes (some of [...] read more»
2014 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
Peek inside the musty underground caves where Formaggio’s young fromage is ripened (they’ll give you a tour if you ask nicely), and you’ll gain a [...] read more»
2013 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
Formaggio features a carefully considered yet seemingly endless array of marbled blues, sharp cheddars, and runny Robiolas, some of it kept in underground "caves" built [...] read more»
2012 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
Not everyone appreciates the olfactory assault that is Formaggio. In fact, we frequently have to check our companions at the curb before heading in to [...] read more»
2011 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
As they've flourished and expanded, this Cambridge fixture and its smaller South End sibling have become more epicurean temples than mere cheese shops, stocked with [...] read more»
2010 Best Cheese Shop
Formaggio Kitchen
Cambridge
If we could be anything in the next life, we'd come back as a mouse so we could gnaw our way into this wondrously stinky [...] read more»