Nickel City Cheese and Mercantile

"NCCM will be an approximately 900 sq.' market, and I'm going to use the back patio for cheese classes and culinary events. Even Europa will participate with dinners out on the patio. Tuscany will also have access to the space for their classes. We're going to make our own gourmet sandwiches and we'll be offering a weekly flavor of mac and cheese. I really like plain good old gruyere mac and cheese, though the Buffalo chicken wing mac and cheese is soooo good - Buffalonians will love it - it tastes just like chicken wings. We'll have specialty gourmet products including cured meats (currently being cured across the street at Europa), sea salts, crackers, honeys, jellies, an olive bar (not the typical supermarket olives - they will be imported and delicious), chocolates... and I hope to have beer and/or wine in some capacity some day. At some point we'll have cheese knives and boards, etc, but right now my focus is getting the food into the store. I'm going to get to know my cheese loving customers - I'll introduce them to new cheeses and I'll record what they like the most. I didn't spend the last few years studying cheese for the fun of it... although it was fun [laughing]. I want to share my knowledge. Whether it's sampling a cheese or attending a cheese class, NCCM is going to be a place for food lovers to take away an appreciation for many foods that just aren't available here yet. I'm planning on opening at the beginning of February."