Gouda News! New Cheese Shop and Eatery Opens in Edgewood

Have a hanker for a hunk of cheese? Cranston is now home to a mecca for cheese and everything associated with it.

Edgewood Cheese Shop and Eatery just opened recently on Broad Street across from the William H. Hall Memorial Library.

Owner Adrienne D’Arconte said she wanted Edgewood Cheese Shop to be “down to earth and accessible,” a place where “customers can come and have fun trying out new cheeses. So often speciality food stores can be intimidating. We want people to enjoy cheese as much as we do.”

The “we” is D’Arconte and and her husband Casey D’Arconte, a chef who has worked at fine restaurants around the country, including Pot au Feu in Providence. For the past 11 years, they’ve run The Breakfast Place in Attleboro, which offers local farm products in a thoughtful brunch menu.

This new venture in their home neighborhood of Edgewood is all about cheese, from grilled cheese sandwiches to cheese plates, charcuterie, epicurean gifts and more. It’s a place to buy the best cheese for a dinner party, or to pop in for a quick lunch, or stock the pantry with mustards, jams, candied nuts, olives and other things to elevate your next cheese board.

The menu is simple and precise, like cheese slices of varying sizes fanned out across a wood block. Pick three cheeses on a small board for $7; $11 gets you 5. For four meats, pay $12. The works, $20, is five cheeses and four meats.

Sandwiches, which come on braided Italian bread or as a grilled panini, include The Casey: fennel salami and gruyere with onion chutney; The Adrienne: roast beef and brie with fig jam; and The Miles: grilled cheese - “no green stuff or anything else touching it.”

One has to wonder who that sandwich is named after. (The D’Arcontes have two sons.)

Among the charcuterie options are smoked duck breast, tasso pork, saucisson sec, sopressata and various pates.

Bring your own wine — BYOB is encouraged.

The shop is located at 1828 Broad St. Hours are Tues. to Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Check the shop’s Facebook page. Visit their website at: www.edgewoodcheeseshop.com

Photos via Edgewood Cheese Shop and Eatery on Facebook.