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The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills, USA

The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills

The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills is a gourmet foods store in Beverly Hills, California, known for its selection of cheeses and other gourmet products. It also stocks wines and other delicacies, including the rarest of all caviars, Golden Imperial Osetra, and is often featured in publications such a

s Bon Appétit and Entrepreneur magazine. As of 2025, the store carries more than 500 varieties of cheese. In 2022, longtime employee Dominick DiBartolomeo purchased the business from former owner Norbert Wabnig. The store, originally housed in a refurbished 1920s brick building, has supplied many of Los Angeles' high-end restaurants past and present, including Wolfgang Puck's Spago, Valentino's, Patina, and Bar Marmont, as well as Las Vegas' Bellagio hotel. The change of ownership in 2022 was followed by a relocation and expansion the following year, and the offerings were expanded to include prepared foods such as sandwiches and salads. History The Beverly Hills branch of Cheese Shop International, an East Coast-based franchise, was founded in 1967 by Colonel Sigmund Roth. In 1978, after a few years of Roth's declining health, Norbert Wabnig, who had worked at the store by day while pursuing his music career at night, purchased the business and changed its name to The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills. He transformed the store's feel from one of an upscale chain store to the more European style that it retains today. As a way of recognizing the producers of handmade specialty foods fr

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