The Cheese Ark

Feel like prices are rising but I guess it's only expected

From top left, counterclockwise, and from mild to strong

The goat cheese has a bit of alcohol taste, but otherwise very mild and easy to eat. The alcoholic taste goes away after a while

Baron bigod is special. It's brie but with this particular flavour, it's hard to describe but I'd say it tastes like "openness" to me

Black garlic la bouse is very up my alley, super strong umami from the garlic, it's a flavour bomb

Won't comment on the truffle la bouse cos I hate truffle

Props to them for getting their hands on belper knolle, I got it in Austria (jumi kase, for anyone who's going) and loved it.

The comte-like cheese was pretty good. It's 24months so not completely dry yet, but there's alr salt crystals and the flavour was good

The next hard cheese was fine, didn't particularly leave an impression

The last one, lazuli, is an absolute joy. As described, the texture really was quite similar to cheesecake ( for a blue), strong umami, and not too funky. Stellar!

Can't rmb what I loved about it but this is quite a textbook blue, and quite blue it was (if you've never had blue you won't be able to accept)

4 year Gouda: Huge crystals, almost sandgrain-sized. It's a little bit diff from normal Gouda but again didn't rlly change my mind.

Surfin blu: the ale washing gives the exterior crazy complexity, each bite was a different note. Can clearly taste the stitching of the blue and the buffalo mozz, some parts are much stronger than others.

Abe rot: not much flavour, the texture is actl not bad but way too smelly, it's really really bad

A bit of crystals, flavour was good and for this type of cheese it's pretty good. But if you don't like this kind of dry semihard cheese like me it's not gg to change your mind.

Chili la bouse: The chili really works incredibly well w the slightly funky gooey cheese

Belper knolle jung: super soft, crumbly and a tad sour well complemented by the spice crust outside, for a tad of heat

Aarewasser: I think this is as good as this type of cheese gets. Very smooth and soft and with stickiness at the back of the throat. Flavour was pleasant too

The hazelnuts were meh and quite surprisingly the most expensive thing, so I guess you can ask for a change or just ask to do without it.

The last 2 items were my add-ons after I was sufficiently impressed, so generally the bill should be about 30+gst which is very reasonable for something of this standard, in fact it's a steal.

Apart from the annoying location, there's really no better place if you want a platter. Most atas restaurants serve 3 types which is really not enough for cheese lovers, plus how much can you eat after the meal. If you want to fix something like this yourself, with a 150g minimum of purchase per cheese it's gonna cost upwards of 200 bucks lol