Wedgewood for Cheese

Russ is the most curious person I know. He follows the greatest diversity of people and places on instagram. He reads more publications than any human I know. He is a human AI.

Last week he invited me on a lunch date for today since today was the first day we both were free at lunch time. He took me to a new cheese place in Carboro called Wedgewood he had stumbled upon on Instagram. They sell cheese and have a little restaurant in the shop. It has been open a month. We weren’t exactly sure where it was based on the name of the street, but I said it sounds like it is near the car wash. Turns out it is on the side of the car wash building.

We entered the beautiful little shop and found that there were more people working there than there were eating or shopping there. This meant they had no trouble seating us at the counter. We ordered the cheesemonger’s choice of a cheese plate of three cheeses and a lox toast.

The cheese plate came first. It had a soft cheese called afterglow, a Brie and a third harder cheese. Some fig jam, a blackberry, half a strawberry and three Cornichon came on the flat tiny platter along with a bowl of more than enough yummy thin crackers.

The afterglow and Brie were fantastic. The third cheese was too waxy and lacked flavor. I let our server know that the third cheese was awful and they happily replaced it with a fabulous Gruyere. After we enjoyed those tiny cheeses our lox toast arrived. We each enjoyed the slice of toasted Baguette with a creamy spread, red onion, capers, dill and smoked salmon. It was a good salty four bites.

For dessert we ordered the whipped chèvre and fig jam toast. It was probably the best thing we ate. The toasted pecans and flower garnish made it as beautiful as it was delectable.

I saw they sold country ham and order four slices from the store side and brought that home to garnish the tomato pie I baked using two of the tomatoes from my friend Lee’s farm.

It was a very cheesy day. But a delightful date with my curious husband. We will be back to visit Wedgewood because Russ wants to try the French ham sandwich with French butter and cornichon on a baguette. I can’t deny the man a ham sandwich.