Sign up for the mailing list for this well-curated Culver City store and you'll get invitations to quirky tastings two or three times a week, always accompanied by cool cheeses, bread or other bites.
Spain is responsible for the coolest cheese in recent memory, torta del Casar.
There are cool string cheese dudes singing in rockbands and wearing sunglasses, or string cheese dudes saying "dude!" and doing magic tricks.
Narrow the air vents or cool the cheese using the methods below.
The bass was white and flaky, served with two sauces on the side, a spicy sambal olek and a cooling blue cheese dip.
On another, citrus salad ($7) was impressive, as were about 15 plump, snappy habanero hot wings ($8) with a cooling blue cheese dipping sauce and respectable chili ($4 and $5) heavy on shredded beef with just enough firepower to hold your attention.
A label paste room, meat cooler and cheese coolers, a chemical storage room, something called a vestibule conveyor belt system, bakery waterfall oiler, several sauce and topping lines -" "How many sauce and topping lines?" "It doesn't say".
A few appetizers would have suited a crowd having a round or two of Margaritas: Spinach and artichoke dip came with a platter crammed with toasted slices of good Tuscan bread; and a dozen messy-but-meaty Buffalo wings were spicy-hot, all ready to be dipped into cooling blue cheese dressing.
Two pastas also delivered: frilly-edged pappardelle in a creamy wild mushroom sauce and rigatoni alla Norma, with a fresh-tasting, chunky tomato sauce enlivened by roasted baby eggplant and finished with a dollop of cool, fresh ricotta cheese on top.
You can also add chips to a warm panini or tuna melt, but let the cheese cool a bit first to ensure maximum crunch.
