This restaurant specializes in southern hospitality and is an ode to old Florida. Owens Fish Camp is located in the heart of Burns Court in Downtown Sarasota. The shop also hosts cheese classes, one of which I recently attended over the holidays! I often order the cheesemonger boards when friends and family are visiting and we sip wine and enjoy while in the shop (but you can also order boards to go for party needs and hosting). They are open daily for lunch (the grilled cheese – omg!), and the shop features a pantry section, natural wine section, and grab and go cooler section. These spots stretch from Siesta Key, to Sarasota, to Longboat Key, but most are centrally located downtown.Īrtisan Cheese Company is an independent, cut to order cheese shop located in the Rosemary District of Sarasota. Their support, whilst overwhelming, really helped.Over the years I have been receiving more and more requests for recommendations in Sarasota – particularly where to dine out! While this is by no means an exhaustive list, below are a few of the Sarasota restaurants I love (and the dishes to try!) as well as a few local shops to visit. I’ve been held up by the cheese community people who wrote on our Facebook group and who emailed me. So even though we did not lose the shop (for which I’m so grateful), the economic impact will be mighty. Half of Sarasota, including my own home, remained without power or water six to eight days after the storm passed. Another cheese community friend from Nashville tried to let me piggyback on a shipment from her distributor so she could overnight a few cheeses from Tennessee. One independent cheese shop owner from New York offered his Fed Ex account so that I could order cheese. And by the middle of the week we were waking up to the realization that the West Coast of Florida suffered colossal power losses, and we might not get a delivery from our distributors until the following week as their distribution routes sustained damage. I had zero bloomy rinds, goats, or washed rinds, as we tried to sell off or give away cheeses that were more fragile. I put the shop back together last week and reset the case with what they’d taken in. We were prepared to lose our inventory, and likely our shop.īut that didn’t happen.
At one point, 12 hours before Irma made her way to Florida, the hurricane tracked directly through Sarasota, and we were warned to expect 15-foot storm surges. My shop is in Zone A which was under a mandatory evacuation. The Whole Foods specialty team didn’t even flinch, and when the girls arrived at their doorstep at 4 pm on Friday, two of their employees were waiting with a dolly and said: “we got this.” By mid-day, I was frantically trying to find someplace who would take in our remaining inventory, and in doing so I reached out to a friend at our local Whole Foods, who ultimately took in six styrofoam boxes of our cheese. So my cheesemongers and I sold off as much as we could in a fire sale to those who hadn’t already evacuated, which was about 70% of my customers. The Friday before Irma, a category 4 or 5 storm was headed for Florida and we were expecting a direct hit.
I’m in Sarasota, Florida, and I own Artisan Cheese Company, an indie cheese shop a stone’s throw from the Bay Front where we’ve been for five and a half years. This one comes from Louise Kennedy Converse of Artisan Cheese Company in Sarasota, Florida. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing some of these stories. During the recent natural disasters, we were struck by stories from those in our community coming together to help each other. This tight-knit, supportive group of individuals are a constant source of inspiration to us. Cheese Community: Louise Converse, Artisan Cheese Company Erika Kubick | September 19, 2017Ĭulture Magazine is proud to be a part of the artisan cheese community.
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