Flaky financial backer can’t curdle Calf and Kid’s opening
Cheese shop proprietor will meet with new potential investor this weekend.
Posted by: Kristin Cordova on Aug 20, 2009 at 02:00PM
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It looks like Sheri LaVigne, the proprietor of soon-to-open The Calf and Kid cheese shop, is already on the fast track to recovery after her financial backer gave her the ole’ boot. On Tuesday she posted an S.O.S. tweet— “Call to action fellow cheese lovers et. al: my investor has flown the coop!” —that inspired responses from three new potential investors. She plans to meet with one of them this weekend.
LaVigne hopes to open The Calf and Kid in the Pearl Apartments building (current home to Anchovies and Olives) before Thanksgiving. She will source directly from smaller, local artisan cheesemakers: Chehalis’s Black Sheep Creamery, Port Townsend’s Mt. Townsend Creamery, Rogue Creamery in Oregon. “Right now, people can only buy these cheeses at the farmers market. We will have them everyday of the week.” LaVigne also promises plenty of “stinky French cheese” along with varieties from Italy and eventually Wisconsin and Vermont. “It’s gonna smell like France in here.”
Thanks so much for the continued support! I’ll be sure to keep you updated on events as they unfold. Vive la fromage!
I am happy to hear that Sheri is still planning to bring the cheese to our hood. We need her now more than ever.
Michelle
Best wishes finding another investor, I feel this city needs your shop toots sweet and I would also have to imagine that many a cheese aficionado with a few spare nickels to spare lurks about in hedge rows and under stairs waiting to spend with reckless abandon once your shop is operational.