True Life – Someone melted a wheel of cheese in front of me and now I can die happy.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words…but I enjoy talking (shocking) so I’m just going to add in all my #feelings.
Raclette is the closet thing to an obtainable heaven, besides maybe this, as there is nothing more emotionally moving than watching someone scrape a mound of hot cheese off a half-melted giant wheel of cheese and onto a enormous plate of meat, potatoes and bread. While I’ve heard that seeing your own child for the first time after the mess that is childbirth is pretty amazing, I still think my standard of beauty is going to be a steady downhill from here.
So the space itself is tiny – probably seats a dozen people at full capacity. The price tag is extremely affordable and to only further that, Raclette is BYOB with a $5.50 corking fee. So naturally being the farthest thing from sommeliers, we went with Rosé, which pairs with everything, everyone and any imaginable occasion.
So here’s how Raclette works – they have a bunch of wonderful looking tartines, loaded with meat and cheese, however everyone is there for the grand event. Basically, you get an extremely large plate with meat, potatoes, bread, pickles, a sad excuse for some sort of greens, and pearled onions. Then this wonderful gentleman comes to your table, not once…not twice…but three times, with this giant half melted wheel of raclette cheese, and scrapes like 1,000 calories of hot, gooey, magic onto your smorgasbord of slightly healthier items. I, jokingly (but in hindsight sounded a bit too serious), asked him to pour the cheese on my face, which wasn’t appropriate or appreciated. So just remember that because it becomes an actual temptation.
To cut this short, unless you’re lactose intolerant (bless your tortured souls), eat something that’s 90% kale for lunch that day, get a bottle (or box) of something classy, high tail it to Raclette and prepare to never look at cheese the same again. After dinner, if you’re not dairy-ed out, go to Mikey likes it next door, which has a great story and an even cooler menu.