Seattle Cheese Fest 2009

There is usually a fee for the wine tent, like $5 or something.  Tons of free samples.  And if you want to take a seminar or see a demo, sign up early!  This year they are having a great mozzarella demo!

Cheese!

I've been a couple years, but never feel like I've stayed long enough to sample enough different kinds of cheeses--probably because of the thick crowd that attends--especially if it's 80+ degrees like it was last year!

This sounds fun.

Awesome! I remember stumbling onto this festival a couple years ago. There was a rather gorgeous man serving up samples of some kind of French cheese....

Somehow I missed this last year...I have a weird feeling that it coincides with some other yearly event....But I love cheese!

I freakin love cheese too! More than likely, i will be there!

Anyone want to meet up for post-cheese cocktails? :-)

Post-cheese cocktails or wine.... possibly. It's still almost 3 months away so I'm not making any definite plans this early in the game ;)

Um, it's cheese. You bet your sweet ass I'll be there.

I am coming to Seattle for the weekend from San Diego-- this is going to be fun to go to!

Hope I can make it this year! Last time I went, I couldn't believe how full I got off of scarfing down bits of cheese!

Ugh!  I've been trying to make it to this for 3 years now!  The past 2 years I've had family in town and this year I graduate on Saturday so even *more* family will be here.  I guess I will be going next year....

oh helllz yeah. This time im taking a cooking class.

Ali, go on Sunday, then!  It'd be a fun thing to do with family who might be sticking around through Sunday.  Last year the weather was beautiful.  Hot, in fact.  Not that this is any indication of what the weather might be like this year, of course.

Cheese.yum

I want to be buried in a coffin of cheese....... *mmmmm*

How many pounds heavier will I be at the end of this one? I shudder to think....

This is why it sucks to work on Saturdays.

i'm excited for this. I'm going to eat cheese until i can't poop!

yay!!

I hope it rains again so its not so crowded....hahahaha

MMMMMM cheese....

i'm lactose intolerant and NEVER bring my lactose pills anywhere and eat tons of cheese anyway.  This would be a good day to remember to bring them I think...

There are lactose intolerance pills?

I just wanted to come back to this event and say, "I love cheese."

Yeah, they're called lactaid or something.  I buy the store brand at whatever drugstore, take one right before I start eating, no worries.

This was so packed last year! Then I moved from trying cheese to trying wine and stopped caring about all the people pretty shortly after that...

MMMmmmmm cheeeeseee...

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I'll be at the Market working, so I guess I can say I'm in!

I'm hoping I can get most of my moving done on Saturday so Sunday I can take a break and head down to the Market!

Effing cheese

darn it.  I'll be in portland.

I just found out that I'll have 3 separate friends staying with me that weekend (none of whom know each other, OF COURSE) and was getting a little anxious about what to do with them and then I remembered this! Thanks yelp for reminding me of things that i'd forget about otherwise.

More like who "Cut The Cheese" Fest. hahaha.

P.S. This reminded me of someone "cheesing" against their opponent in StarCraft tournaments. :D

Last year was sheer HEAVEN!!
They had this great sharp cheese that was rolled in essence of espresso and lavendar!
It was soooooo amazing!!

Me gusta Queso!

I'm so bummed I'll have to miss this due to work :(

I loveeeeeeeeeeeee cheese! But I can't go!!!! Someone buy some soft and some old stuff for me and send it my way!

+1 Kiki. Stupid work. =(

Cheese grommit!

Woohoo! First U-district street fair then to the cheese-fest! YUM! =)

I'm there! Especially for the  wine and cooking demos...

Two years ago at this festival, I saw the table with Cougar Gold cheese. I cautiously approached the table, looking for price tags, and, trying to be conversational, I asked, "You guys have better prices than that ripoff WSU store at Westlake Center, right?" All commerce activities at the table came to a halt. Eyes narrowed. "We ARE the WSU store at Westlake Center." I was suddenly very interested in what the next table was selling.

Maybe it's been long enough that I could try the festival again. I do love cheese.

LOL! That's an awesome story Matt. You probably made their shit list. Heheehee

i hate fighting for cheese... the crowds, the lines... it's just not worth it.  

go grab yourself a baguette from three girls bakery, cheese from Beechers, Slaumi from that martket  over there and "brown bag" it and find yourself a spot, and have an impromptu picnic out on the grass or the sidewalk.

it's just that good.

LOL... Matt, that sounds like something I might have done.

I'm lactose intolerant too, so if I go, stay outta my way, ppl.

This is a great event but gets a bit crowded.  My advice is to get out of the market if the cruise ships dock.  The people from the ships can really over run the place.  The best is if there is a slight drizzle, then mostly the cheese lovers are out and about.  Hope to run into some Yelpers there this weekend.  I will definitely try to catch one of the Mozz making demos.

Man I am looking forward to Fromage-n it up.

I FUCKING love cheese.

That is all.

Wow is it a petri dish of insanity there today.  I can only hope it rains tomorrow so it's more fun. hehe.

Someone was wearing a shirt that said make Cheese not War!  What a nice day it was :)

I'm considering going to this tomorrow. How were the crowds today?

It was a little insane today but soooooo good.  I think that my friend and I sampled half the cheese available and then had to stop because we thought we were going to be sick.  So we went to pike brewery and had beer to settle our stomachs!

The crowds were pretty insane. I didn't stay long as I have a pretty low tolerance for clueless crowds of random elbows and strollers. Not worth it...There are many more civil ways to sample excellent cheese.

Ehhh. I'm not really in the mood for crazy big crowds. I think I'll skip it, then. Thanks!

I'm headed there tomorrow in the middle of the afternoon, which I can only assume is the peak time for crowds. I get a bit claustrophobic in big crowds, so we'll see how well I do. Hopefully the cheese is enough to sedate me.

I'm hoping I can make it down tomorrow for at least a bit.

Perhaps we will skip this..if the crowds are that big...magnuson park here we come!!!

Yeah it was hellish.  The first sunny weather tourists.  The cruise ship vacationers.  And plenty of drunk idiots.  I have to say, the first two years were great.  A nice crowd, easy to get cheese, not too many drunks.  This was simply unpleasant.  They need a new format for this festival now with the size it is.  I'd skip it unless you already know what cheeses you are after.  BTW, you can buy almost all the cheeses at the local grocery stores.