The Cheeseboard
1512 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709
(510) 549-3183
I LOVE this place. I had just come back from a study abroad program Paris, learning about the history and intricacies of socio-political relations between America and France (really, drinking lots of cheap wine, smoking way too many cigarettes, and eating way too much amazing food, but whatever). Ah Calfornia, I was so glad to be back.
My point is, I NEEDED cheese. I was getting cheese withdrawals. At around 3 in the afternoon, I’d realize I was getting the cheese sweats. Seriously, it was missing in my life.
A friend sugggested, nay, forced me to go to Cheeseboard. So I went. I stepped inside, and immediately smelled wet feet. Perfect!! I sampled four different cheeses, and purchased their cheapest brie and a baguette. We went to Indian Rock Park, and ate the most amazing brie and bread as I watched the sun set over the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay, and schemed about how I was going to move to Paris.
I’m quite happy living in San Francisco now. And I’ve found that the Cheeseboard has been a sort of measuring stick in my relative rise to wealth, from a cheap college underclassmen, to working professional. See, I used to get the cheapest brie at the Cheeseboard. The time I was graduating college, I was purchasing the third cheapest brie - I was moving up in the world! When I go back now, I find myself purchasing the fourth most *expensive* brie in the shop. One day, when I am finally a property owner in our wonderful blue bubble, I shall return, triumphant to the Cheeseboard, and order a baguette and a quarter pound of their most expensive brie.
And that, my friends, will be the sign that I have made it.
