{"id":1118,"date":"2013-08-03T22:07:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheese.carrotseverywhere.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2013-08-03T22:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T02:07:34","slug":"prima-donna-at-cheesetique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Prima Donna at Cheesetique"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1119\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cheese.carrotseverywhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cheesetique_tray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1119\" title=\"cheesetique_tray\" src=\"http:\/\/cheese.carrotseverywhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cheesetique_tray-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prima-Donna cheese tray at Cheesetique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<div>We were meeting friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsrestaurant.net\/\">RTs in Arlandria<\/a>, so we stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/cheesetique.com\">Cheesetique<\/a> &#8212; in Del Ray, also on Mount Vernon Ave. before dinner.<\/div>\n<div>We sat at the bar and had a mac-and-cheese with cauliflower, cheese, and bacon. The also have a large seating area in the back and a front patio.<\/div>\n<p>Then the cheese trays looked so pretty, I had to order one &#8212; I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisanalcheese.com\/prodinfo.asp?number=10418\">Prima Donna<\/a>, a Dutch gouda, aged a year. Nice, but not too salty. It came on a wooden cheeseboard with bread, crackers, cornichons and red grapes. The oniony crackers were a bit much with the mild cheese, but the rest worked. $8 for one cheese plate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We had a North Carolina IPA with it (Brevard Brewing Company) &#8212; don&#8217;t know enough to know if a wine would have been better.<\/p>\n<p>You get 10% off your store order if you buy at the restaurant, but I forgot to ask. I wanted to get a French and a German cheese for a friend. They had a ton of French cheeses, and only one German one &#8212;\u00a0 <span>Cambozola, a blue cheese. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were meeting friends at RTs in Arlandria, so we stopped at Cheesetique &#8212; in Del Ray, also on Mount Vernon Ave. before dinner. We sat at the bar and had a mac-and-cheese with cauliflower, cheese, and bacon. The also have a large seating area in the back and a front patio. Then the cheese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}