Farmshop to open artisan market Jan. 29
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Farmshop in the Brentwood Country Mart is welcoming a new addition to Jeff Cerciello’s restaurant and bakery: a full-scale artisan market.
The market, comparable in size to the restaurant itself, boasts a deli, cheese and charcuterie counters, products such as Jessica Koslow’s Sqirl preserves and seasonally inspired prepared foods. Also stocked on the market’s shelves are California wines, craft beers and housewares from L.A. favorites including Heath ceramics.
Managing the floor is Emiliano Lee. With years of experience working as a cheese monger and manager (and even a ‘fresh foods wrangler’ who sourced sustainably farmed produce) while working at Liberty Heights Fresh in Salt Lake City, Farmshop’s new hire knows his cheese.
Lee, a Bay Area native, is thrilled to launch a market filled with foods crafted in California. The advocate brings farmstead American cheeses to Farmshop’s cheese counter from Oregon and Vermont but mainly from California producers such as Bellwether Farms, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Cowgirl Creamery, Cypress Grove Chevre, Marin French Cheese, Franklin’s Cheese, Vella Cheese, Laura Chenel’s Chevre, Andante Dairy, Garden Variety Cheese and Bleating Heart.
With the market in place, Cerciello and team are working to add an educational component with dinners, tasting events, cooking demonstrations and book signings on the horizon.
The artisan market at Farmshop will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
225 26th St., Suite 25, Santa Monica, (310) 566-2400, farmshopla.com.
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