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Antonelli’s celebrates second birthday with free cheese plates
When John and Kendall Antonelli opened their Hyde Park cheese shop in 2010, they knew Austinites loved specialty cheese, but little did they know how much.
Antonelli’s Cheese Shop started primarily as a retail store front for customers to buy cheese and accouterments and place for the Antonellis to host cheese classes, but as more restaurants started ordering wholesale, they quickly outgrew the space at 4220 Duval Street.
In the past few months, they’ve opened a headquarters across Duval Street that now houses a huge walk-in cooler that holds most of the cheeses that appear in cheese and charcuterie plates at restaurants across the city including Asti, Bistrot Mirabelle, Chez Zee, Coal Vines, , the Mansion at Judge’s Hill, Truluck’s, Vino Vino and Violet Crown.
The cheese 101 classes that they host each month will also be held in this new space, which you can rent out for private classes, but the original storefront remains the place where everyday customers can walk in and order cheese.
To celebrate the blockbuster two years that the business has had, the Antonellis are giving away cheese plates this week at various restaurants around town, starting today at 5 p.m. at Haddington’s and Snack Bar. (Snack Bar owner Bethany Andree says have Belgian-style beers from Adelbert’s Brewery, one of the newest breweries in town, to go with the cheese plates.)
Here is a list of where they are giving away the cheese plates, while supplies last, on which nights:
Tuesday — 24 Diner, Fino and Hopfields
Wednesday — Bartlett’s, Fion Wine Pub, House Pizzeria
Thursday — Chez Zee, Max’s Wine Dive, The Steeping Room
Friday — Coal Vines, The Seedling Truck
(Kendall Antonelli points out that on Wednesday nights throughout the year, Dive Bar, Star Bar and Gibson Bar give away cheese plates if you buy a bottle of wine.)
Photo by Deborah Cannon for the Austin American-Statesman.
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