Our Cheese
Street Ched? Quark? Aged Gouda? Cheese curds?
At Urban Stead, you’ll find the best of Ohio cheese in award-winning varieties.
Street Ched
Our award-winning traditional English-style Clothbound Cheddar aged a minimum of 12 months. This beautiful cheddar has a natural sweet and tangy sharpness with a savory, earthy finish that keeps giving long after you’ve taken your last bite.
*2024 International Cheese and Dairy Awards Gold Medals (3) for Mild, Mature & Extra Mature/Vintage Cheddar, ICDA Trophy - Champion Americas Cheese, US Dairy Council Trophy
*2024 World Cheese Awards Bronze Award
*2024 American Cheese Society Gold Medal
*2023 World Cheese Awards Bronze Award
*2022 American Cheese Society Silver Medal
*2023, 2022, 2021 Ohio State Fair Cheese Competition Reserve Grand Champion & First Place Aged Cheddar
Ingredients: Pasteurized Local Jersey Cow Milk, Salt, Cultures & Enzymes
Gouda
This award-winning traditional Dutch-style gouda evokes flavors of salted caramel and butterscotch with a remarkably long-lasting umami finish. Aged a minimum of 12 months.
*2024 International Cheese and Dairy Awards Gold Medal
*2024 World Cheese Awards Gold Award
*2024 American Cheese Society Bronze Medal
*2023/2024 World Cheese Awards Bronze Award
Ingredients: Pasteurized Local Jersey Cow Milk, Salt, Cultures & Enzymes
Tomme d’Evanston
This fresh-tasting elegant alpine-style cheese is mild and nutty, with subtleties of fresh straw and a hint of mustard on the finish. This cheese is perfect for a cheese board, but is also a great melting cheese, similar to a gruyère cheese. Tomme is typically named for the place in which it is made, thus we’ve given a nod to the neighborhood where we’ve laid our roots with this cheese. Aged 6-12 months.
Ingredients: Pasteurized Local Jersey Cow Milk, Salt, Cultures & Animal Rennet
Quark
Fresh creamy farmer’s cheese made in the traditional Eastern-European style. This bright, tangy and versatile cheese pairs beautifully with fruit and honey for breakfast or dessert, can be incorporated into cheese sauces and pastas and also serves as the perfect ingredient for baking cheesecakes, blintzes or strudels. Quark also is a fabulous substitute for commercial cream cheese; use quark in your favorite fruit or vegetable dip or substitute it for cream cheese in your favorite party spread!
*2024 American Cheese Society Bronze Medal
*2022 American Cheese Society Silver Medal
*2022, 2021 Ohio State Fair Cheese Competition Second Place
Ingredients: Pasteurized Local Jersey Cow Milk, Salt, Cultured NFDM, Cultures & Enzymes
Misty River Camembert
This Camembert-style cheese is a lovely little white creamy pillow of cheese has earthy, flavors with a slight finish of mushroom flavors. This cheese pairs beautifully with sweet fruits and jams.
Ingredients: Pasteurized Local Jersey Cow Milk, Salt, Cultures & Enzymes
Cheese Curds
These delicious fresh squeaky cheese curds are day 1 cheddar. Cheese curds are perfect for snacking, but are also the perfect addition to your morning eggs; they’ll melt beautifully over your grilled chicken or burger, and are the perfect cheese addition to your favorite soup or chili. Don’t kid yourself; buy two bags, because you might finish the first bag before you make it home.
Ingredients: Pasteurized Local Jersey Cow Milk, Salt, Cultures & Enzymes
How Our Cheese is Made
Our cheese is made fresh on site. But the story of how the cheese is made goes beyond our walls, with countless hours, miles, and people who help make us to make our award-winning cheeses.