The Village Cheese Shop — Attraction in Town of Southold

had a Saturday afternoon boating emergency... I had a scheduled appointment aboard a beautiful new Regal yacht with potential new clients. I needed a little something extra to make a boating memory on a windy & cold March day.

I stopped into the VCS about 30 minutes before my appointment, and put myself into Leah's hands..(Hopefully, I spelled that correctly) She crafted a beautiful sampler plate with a variety of cheeses, olives and breads, none I'd ever tried before. Thankfully she also recorded a colorful little description of each on my cell phone,that I played to my clients. Recognizing my situation, Leah also loaned me a cutting board and all the tools I needed to complete the presentation.

As we sat in the cockpit talking boats and sampling cheeses, I could see my clients envisioning fabulous upcoming experiences and adventures entertaining aboard their soon to be yacht. This was reinforced in a thank you note from 2 new boaters later that day. (yes, they bought the boat, and I also returned the loaned stuff)

Everybody working at the VCS that day was helpful but Leah made the difference. She also made 3 new friends...

While The Village Cheese Shop has some really nice cheese, with the exception of 2-3 local NY cheeses, every other cheese was imported and those cheeses were from Europe. I truly enjoy European cheese, but the North Fork, upstate, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding states have some amazing cheese which I was hoping that I would find at this store. It's a small store and there were 10+ people when we visited. Nice store, but we were also essentially ignored until I discovered there were no local cheeses and decided to leave at which point they tried to engage us. I'm sure that you will enjoy this store if you're looking for nice imported cheeses from Europe, but I would check out the farms and farmstands if you're searching for...

We pop in when in the area. Saturday evening we stopped in with our son and his wife. Paige, the owner was not there at the time and a young guy made our cheese plates. We like different/unusual stuff and left it up to him. The three flights we had were great, bought one cheese to take home and had a good time. Impressed with how knowledgeable the guy was, looked like he could have been in high school even. That's not a slight but a compliment to how much he knew.

We like to support small business owners and highly recommend a visit here. Paige is always very pleasant and helpful. Great...