Making a Stink
Smith Street’s pungent new cheese shop also stocks smoked meat, fresh bread, cookies, condiments, olives, and pickles — making it a perfect one-stop pre-picnic shop. I explained that I like a creamy cheese but didn’t want anything that would melt on the way to Prospect Park, and they had just the thing — a grassy…
Smith Street’s pungent new cheese shop also stocks smoked meat, fresh bread, cookies, condiments, olives, and pickles — making it a perfect one-stop pre-picnic shop. I explained that I like a creamy cheese but didn’t want anything that would melt on the way to Prospect Park, and they had just the thing — a grassy French cow’s cheese called St. Nectaire. I left with a little more than a quarter pound of it ($2.36), some Mazzola’s olive bread ($3.75), and a bag of madeleines ($6.50) for dessert. The best part was the sticker used to seal my cheese — not only did it include a suggested wine pairing (the store owners also run the nearby wine shop, Smith & Vine), but also an endearing tag line: “Stinky Bklyn. We love you. Really. We do.”
I think “T” is right, what we need to start doing in this city is to tell people what kind of restaurants they’re allowed to open so that tourists or people who have been living here for a couple of months and have no interests but sports and John Wayne won’t feel uncomfortable dining in neighborhoods they occasionally visit.
this sounds like the perfect place to stop by and pick up a treat before I visit Uncle Joe in Brooklyn. He will appreciate the familiar scent being his kitchen always smells like cheese!
T –
Your description of what you would like to see open on Smith street is available in Brooklyn already – It’s called Applebees and it’s on Flatbush and Dekalb. You can eat all the crappy “unashamedly American” food you want to there.
I like Stinky Brooklyn and its convenience. However, I and several friends have stopped shopping at Smith & Vine because, despite the nice and friendly atmosphere, the recommendations in below $20 wines just just haven’t been very good (and no, we’re not wine snobs — we’ve gladly tried their table of inexpensive wines and those have generally fallen flat as well). We’ve had better results at other wine shops, where we can spend $8-14 and come away very happy, which is a shame because we also like Smith & Vine’s convenience.
took your suggestion of the non melting cheese , apples and wine and went to Montauk for the day…in a cooler of course and enjoyed the day with my sons Irish family from Mayo …. what a store…show me more
Le monde is a newspaper. Magazines are so cliche.
Fairway cheese selection is outstanding, however, one of the major pluses at a place like Stinky (just like Smith & Vine) is the enthusiasm and knowledge posessed by the people working there. I find going to these places to be an educational experience!
check out bedford cheese in billsburg too. super yummy.
fairway’s great, but a bummer to get to in a pinch. if you’re trying to do some last minute shopping this is great, as is bedford cheese shop…
cheese is very american. W-I-S-C-O-N-S-I-N, V-E-R-M-O-N-T. nuff said.
oh, and ps. the whole trucker hat thing and cheesy american burger joints? done. think ashton kutcher and hard rock cafe.