The Cheese Lady Traverse City — Local services in Traverse City

So I love cheese and look for cheese shops on all of my vacations. When I read about this store I put it on my list of places to visit. While time was running short on our last day in Traverse City, I made it a point to visit the store and am really glad that I did. The shop itself is more than just a store selling cheese. They have so many cool gift items that support the pleasure of sharing cheese with others, it is cool. I would love to have a store like this to put together gift baskets in.

We shared with the staff that we loved cheese and were seeking some suggestions about where to start. We told them about our favorite cheeses and they made some suggestions. We were offered a sample of every cheese that we were considering buying. If you are hoping to make lunch off of the samples, then this is the wrong store for you, but the samples let us ensure that we were going to like the flavor of these cheeses.

We ended up ordering three different types of cheese which were all cut to our desired weight and individually wrapped. We were able to purchase a small insulting cheese bag with a zipper, and they provided a mini ice pack to help keep the cheese cold. We also purchased some delicious and unique crackers and enjoyed our cheese over the next couple of days of our trip, even turning it into lunch with a bottle of wine on Mackinaw Island.

They have a great selection and the staff person who helped us was amazing. They sell high-quality cheeses from around the world so it is a great place to explore, but know that good...

Maybe it was because we visited in early September, after the end of the main tourist season; maybe there were product shortages related to COVID/supply chain issues. But when we visited, most of what we saw in the coolers was cheese you could buy at the grocery store. I didn't even find any Havarti!

There were also non-food items (like kitchen towels or collectable kitsch), but again, most of it was stuff you could find at any place that sells tourist stuff.

Again, possibly we showed up on an off day/week, but I had planned to buy some cheeses that were new to us and we ended up not buying anything.

Store was clean and decently well organized on the inside (outside looked like an older white house). Assuming my visit was typical, probably a decent enough place to visit if you're not looking for anything too unique to purchase (either food...

My gosh why did it take 8 months to review how AWESOME they are? Because I have a 21 month old right now. So sorry Kim you were amazing...we had them do cheese wheels for our wedding and i had mine as a "grooms cake" then got the cheese as aps for the guest it was a HUGE IT. So sorry for the late review I have pictures and will post but wanted to get this out for they really are the "cheese ladies" and know exactly what they are talking about. Kim was our go to and was fab. Good luck using them for "traffic city" is getting to busy and good establishments like these get hard to book out.... Thanks Kim! I will get pics up soon of my cheese "cake".

BTW: of course they know cheese holy mol that is all they do. They are the most knowledgeable in northern MI. Simon's in Petoskey would be 2nd to...