The FORKING BEST cheese plate I ever had was the cheese plate from Bistro Laurent in Paso Robles California. Forking Cheesus it made me feel like I never tasted great cheese before. It was something that I couldn’t provolone.

It was a very simple cheese plate without the usual adornments such as nuts, fruit and honey but this plate showed me that cheese when ultra good doesn’t need embellishments. Cheese plays the starring role. It’s all about the cheese. The cheeses were so amazing that I asked for a list of what I tried. I camembert it any longer and here is my list.

I’m not 100% certain which cheese is what but when I looked up all the cheeses I am pretty certain that the center cheese that looks like a pretty carnation was the Tete De Moine. It might have been the strongest of the cheeses on the plate and is served scraped from a knife for more air surface for proper tasting. In French tete de moine means monk’s head because it was created by monks in the French speaking area of Canton of Bern.

I think the wedge at the top that looks similar to brie is the Reblochon. It might look like brie but it did taste a forking lot better than any brie I ever forking had. Reblochon is a French Cheese from the Alps traditionally made from cow’s milk.

Other Cheeses on the plate are Etorki- pasteurized sheep’s milk cheese made in French Basque County.

Camembert- creamy surface ripened cow’s milk cheese  (unlike any camembert I ever had and more flavorful)

Comte- French Cheese made from unpasteurized cow’s milk from the France-Comte of eastern France (NOTHING like any comte I had before)

Last cheese was spelled Ste Maure by the Chef but in my search the cheese came up either Sainte Maure or Sainte Maure de Touraine. If the cheese was one of the Sainte Maure kinds it was a full fat goats milk cheese made in the province of Touraine. The Sainte Maure de Touraine is made with a straw in the center and the Sainte Maure is made with out the straw. Both are fine cheeses.

That Cheese Plate WAS THE BEST FORKING CHEESE PLATE I EVER HAD!