City of Albany
Cheese Traveler

Cheese Traveler

540 Delaware Avenue, Albany, NY 12209, 12209-1442, City of Albany, United States

Cheese • Casual • American • Catering


"I don 't know a lot about cheese, except that it makes for some of the best jokes. However, for a while now this place has been on my radar and a series of events (such as date night coinciding with the store 's late hours allowed us to come here and explore their offerings. It is a small shop, located on Delaware Ave. in a set of stores that is easy to miss if you don 't have a smart phone or a very observant wife/navigator! When we walked in it was obvious that this was a fun little store with a wide variety of cheeses. However, it wasn 't cold (as in full of fridge coolers at all but instead warm and pleasant. Which is also exactly how I would describe Mary, the woman who helped us. She walked us through several types of cheddar cheeses which my wife likes, providing samples and commentary along the way. Then, she made some recommendations regarding soft cheeses. They appear to only have one variety of Provolone (one of my favorites and it was quite good, but I do wish there were more. We decided to get a box filled with four types of cheese, two types of meats (beef sausage and spec , various fruits (strawberries, two types of grapes, blueberries nuts, corn nuts (a surprising but welcome addition! , honey sticks, and marmalade. All worked well together with the crackers provided and it was easily enough for two rather hungry and adventurous adults. I won 't lie... it wasn 't inexpensive... but for a special occasion it was certainly special. Going back, I think I would focus more on some of their interesting cured meats and other local items like jams on the walls. Go take a look at the EXTENSIVE list of items they have on their website as being in stock, and then wonder how anyone could possibly see them all in just one visit. It was a lot of fun and I hope to get back."

Allie B's Cozy Kitchen

Allie B's Cozy Kitchen

Clinton Avenue, City Of Albany, 12206, United States Of America, City of Albany

Food • Seafood • American • Southern


"This was the most disappointing place I’ve ordered from in a very long time, I was craving soul food and saw this place pop but and tried my luck and struck out. Me and my brother tried everything below and these are our opinions I’ll use a rating scale of 0-10 (0 being bad and 10 being amazing). Let’s start with the sides. We order collard greens but it got subbed for vegetable for the day which was cabbage, the cabbage had zero flavor no seasoning no even salt and pepper, extremely over cooked. Next side was potatoes salad again zero flavor. Next macaroni and cheese sadly this was super disappointing as well not a lot of cheese just noodles with minor cheese and it didn’t taste great. Lastly we had canned yams this was the saving grace for each tray the yams were great sweet and flavorful and cook to perfection. Overall the sides only 3/10 Now onto the main courses, the baked turkey wings are not good. The turkey had no flavor meat was tinder but again zero seasoning and texture wasn’t great 0/10. Next the BBQ pork ribs, very good loved the sauce and the ribs were not tough, but did not have a lot of meat. 7/10 with their signature bbq house sauce 9/10. Next we have the grilled bbq chicken, very disappointing the chicken had way to many charred parts and it runnier everything it was just burned underneath, sauce was decent but because it’s was so charred that’s all you could taste juicy on top and white meat inside 5/10. Lastly the fired chicken wings, these were amazing seasoned the flavor amazingly and fried them perfectly I’d recommend trying 10/10 with bbq sauce 1000/10. We did try their chili shrimp tasty but wanted more 7/10. Corn bread was bland 5/10. We ordered chocolate cake but I have to assume they ran out or got our order wrong, but regardless the cake they gave us was tough with no flavor even the frosting lacked sweetness and flavor. Sadly I wouldn’t order from this place again. But please try them out and from your own opinion."