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Beecher's Handmade Cheese — Pike Place Market
Seattle, WA
At Pike Place Market, Beecher's cheese counter and café wrap around a glass-walled working cheesemaking kitchen, letting shoppers watch milk turn into Flagship while they buy cheese or eat lunch.
Beecher's original Pike Place location deliberately places active cheesemaking in full public view inside a busy cheese shop and café.
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Why it belongs
Cheese retail, café food, American artisan-cheese sales and active glass-walled cheesemaking under one Pike Place storefront.
Cheese retail, café food, American artisan-cheese sales and active glass-walled cheesemaking under one Pike Place storefront.
Beecher's Handmade Cheese opened its original Pike Place Market location in 2003 with a glass-walled cheesemaking kitchen designed to put the process in public view. Visitors can watch cheesemakers at work when production is underway, then shop Beecher's own cheeses at the counter or order café food such as grilled cheese, soup and its branded “World's Best” Mac & Cheese. The counter also carries cheeses from other American artisan producers, so not every cheese sold here is made in the Pike Place kitchen. Production and the day's menu vary, and no particular batch or stage is guaranteed.
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What you will find
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Known for
- Flagship cheese
- Pike Place Market
- Glass-walled cheesemaking
- Cheese counter
- Grilled cheese
- Mac and cheese
- American artisan cheese