Formaggio

Buon Giorno!
Last weekend I took a trip to Boston to visit my good friend Ruth and her fam.  You may remember her baby girl, Babs, from such previous posts as this and this.
I always have a nice time visiting them.  They live in Back Bay where you can walk to everything.  I can pretend I'm hip and live in a city for a few days which is just the right amount of time for this small town girl.  Plus, they are super laid back and very generous hosts.  For example, Ruth treated me to a vichy body scrub at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel's Spa.  Unbelievable.
On Saturday morning we ventured out to Cambridge to find a cheese/gourmet food shop that I had read about online called Formaggio.  It's located in a really cute neighborhood with cute little shops including the Marimekko store.  Dangerous.

*cue angels singing*

After dropping too much cash on some very small floral printed items we found Formaggio.  

It turned out to not only be an amazing cheese shop but an all around amazing food store.  They had fresh produce and lots of imported dry goods.  They had incredible pastries.  We bought some macarons.

Oooo la la!

The best thing is that they had lots of cheesy samples for everyone to try.

free + sample = happy me!

A beautiful bell shaped soft cheese to try.  Nice and stinky!

And check out the cheese counter.

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And salamis below.

I got a few slices of the saucisson sec.  It was wonderful and brought me right back to France.
Another great feature of Formaggio is that they have a weekend BBQ.  They just set up on the sidewalk right out front and grill up amazing meats and sides.  

The menu:

Check out this cornbread:

And this chicken was amazing:

One interesting thing was there was a Boston Firefighter standing there the whole time.  I guess maybe that's a requirement if you want to grill on the street?  Anyway, he wasn't hurtin'.  He was getting free BBQ!

Byeeee!