Formaggio Essex

Gourmet grocery store · Lower East Side

Formaggio Essex

Gourmet grocery store · Lower East Side

88 Essex St, New York, NY 10002

Highlights

Nestled inside Essex Market, this gourmet haven dazzles with a top-notch cheese and charcuterie selection, plus yummy pantry finds and sandwiches.

88 Essex St, New York, NY 10002 Get directions

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"With its squeaky clean aesthetic, the new Essex Street Market is host to counters, shelves, and kitchens full of specialty comestibles. At Formaggio Essex, the cheese selection gets all the attention but don’t forget to check out the tinned fish selection. Here, there’s a wide array of tinned seafood from around the globe, including New Hampshire’s own Gulf of Maine Conservas Bluefin Tuna, one of the few regional offerings out there, and one of the few retailers carrying it in the city." - David Neimanis

The Best Places to Eat Tinned Fish in NYC - Eater NY

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@philtoronto

my go-to, my tried & true great selection and great recs always

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Jessica Kramer

Google

This is a superb cheese store with lots of gourmet groceries that are also outstanding. The staff are all lovely and the manager / owner once bought me a cup of coffee when he went to get one for himself which took me from a fan to a super fan. The cheese selection is the best in the city and every brand they carry is excellent.

Kristi Steinberg

Google

We bought some slices of Fra Salametro picante and manchego and a baguette for our flight and it made for a great lunch. I'm used to getting manchego and salami from Trader Joes. Now I know how different it can be. Of course this is more expensive, but totally worth it. The service was very helpful and personable, not snooty.

Moozhan Ghorbani

Google

Would probably be a fine experience as long as you don’t ask for recommendations. By the third cheese, it was clear they had no idea what I was asking for and I just bought a cheese (even though it was not even close to what I was looking for) so the experience could be over. Would go to the vegan cheese shop over this one any day.

Theresa Giannola

Google

Looks great. I haven't stopped by. I can't do cheese. Nordic preserve. Unregular pizza. Indian restaurant opens at 5 pm. Ty

Blue Kaufman

Google

I go there multiple times a month and they are definitely pricey, but it’s well worth it. However the owner/manager (Caucasian male with brown hair) is pretty snooty and rude and it is very off putting; yesterday, my friend and i felt so uncomfortable to the point where we just left. I have been a returning customer for 2-3 years and not only has he never said a word to me but he’s got an impressively obnoxious stare (maybe it’s his resting b face but it’s quite awful). The rest of the staff is extremely kind and helpful though!

Angel

Google

The olives I bought from this place were completely open and leaked, ripping a hole and spilling my items all over the disgusting street as I walked. Getting olive juice all over my paper wrapped cheese, cracking the $$$ honey I just bought, and ruining my night.

Nina Potischman

Google

A little pricey, but very worth it. I tried this cheese at an event and had to get some. Some of the best cheese I’ve had in NYC by far!!!

Hank Lee

Google

i ask for half a lb of rogue river blue, hope its not the owner, but whoever was working says "you know its going to be about 30$"... racist, classist "cant understand normal thinking" thing to drop on a customer. maybe its because of the neighborhood? i wonder how far they drive to work at that cheese shop to feel that way about someone clearly from the neighborhood. i can get the cheese from somewhere else if thats what formaggio essex wants.