Chattahoochee Cheese Market — Local services in Cornelia

Food Fun Adventure Weekend took us first to the Chattahoochee Cheese Market in Helen, GA. This is a local roadside deli and cheese store. They offer meat and cheese options as well as breakfast and lunch sandwiches.

I tried the Kickin' Horse sandwich, a panini style roast beef with onion, muenster, and a horsey aioli. The sandwich was fantastic. The cheese melts into the meat and bread with some crunch from a fresh sliced onion. The horsey sauce is sweeter than I expected from a horseradish, but it was creamy with a hint of garlic and worked well on the sandwich. The box lunch came with chips, a pickle and a cookie or brownie. I tried a chocolate chip and pecan cookie. It was soft and had a good chew with lots of both pecan and chocolate, but they used oats in the cookie. I am not a fan of oats in most cookies. I washed it all down with a glass bottle Coke from Mexico.

My fiancé tried the Italian Stallion sandwich. This has most of the usual suspects of an Italian sandwich. Prosciutto, Capicola Ham, Genoa Salami, Provolone cheese, oil and vinegar, lettuce, tomato and a spicy mustard on a sub roll. This was warned on the panini press as well, and it was good too. The meats and cheese were fresh and salty with the vinegar offering some tang. The spicy mustard was awesome, and hopefully homemade, because I would eat it every day. I feel like the tomato slices needed to be thicker or there needed to be more on the sandwich to even out the salty meats. She had the peanut butter brownie. It had good peanut butter flavor, and it chewed well. She really liked it, but it was more cakey than I prefer.

Chattahoochee Cheese Market offers several hot and cold sandwiches. They also do charcuterie trays or cheese platters and a selection of wine and beer. There were other dessert options as well. It is pet friendly outside on their patio. This was our first food stop but likely not the last. Fat Man Reviews says that Chattahoochee Cheese Market is Fat...

I have been to this store on two separate occasions a year apart. I'm pretty sure the staff is the same two that I encountered a year ago Still not very helpful on cheese varieties, very limited stock. In past trips to Helen I have always had the opportunity to find great cheeses. Very disappointed at the staff's unwillingness to assist me with any recommendations. They did not seem well informed about their products that they sold. Despite the fact that They had a cooler go out earlier this week and will not be repaired till next week. They were still very unhelpful as for me finding a decent cheese for what I wanted. It was more like they were trying to rush me out the door and be done serving customers. This is not my first time in this store with this treatment. But I can promise you it is my last. I will search for what I want in other places. They could not even give me a recommendation for a substitute. And they could not direct me to another store that may have other cheeses...

I got some bit of honeys on the first visit and Mary Janes. I've got to say they must have changed the recipe on the Mary Jane's because they were lacking in flavor but the BitOhoney hit the spot. On our second visit we got more of those bit of Honey's candies. We got the Italian sandwiches but they only had one sub bread left so I had to get mine on ciabatta bread. They're good and tasty not too expensive but they're just not filling. There's no lettuce on them, the meat and cheese is just sliced thin and it's just not filling and I'm 5'3 about 120. . Also the heat the sandwiches which I didn't know I would have told him to leave my cold but they tossed up that you buy the bread it'll cut up your mouth it's so hard. Might stop in for breakfast on the way out. But I know for the next time to tell them don't heat up...