A much-anticipated cheese shop & restaurant opens soon in the Triangle — with a new name

A Carrboro cheese bar with a dozen seats is one of the Triangle’s most anticipated restaurants of 2024 — and now it has a new name.

The Cheese Shop in Carrboro will debut its restaurant Wedgewood Cheese Bar later this fall.

Wedgewood is the first restaurant from married couple Michelle and Stevie Webb. The couple have operated The Cheese Shop as an 80-square-foot cheese counter within the Carrboro restaurant Glasshalfull.

Now Wedgewood will open in the former Carrboro Car Wash building, with a 2,000-square-foot space, including a horseshoe bar with 15 seats, a large cheese counter and a retail wine shop with selections from Paula de Pano, a Chapel Hill sommelier and owner of Rocks + Acid wine bar.

Co-owner Michelle Webb said the expansion from tiny cheese shop to restaurant and bar helps put the versatility of cheese in the spotlight.

“We’re taking iconic dishes and giving them that Wedgewood twist,” Webb said. “We call it fine-ish dining. People are familiar with cheese plates, and we’ll have those, but we’re exciting about being able to serve dishes that use cheese as ingredients, like whipped ricotta with prosciutto and figs, that’s a composed dish.”

Webb said demolition on the space it set to begin soon and that the couple hope to open their doors by late October or early November.

The Wedgewood design is led by Shaun Sundholm of Sundholm Studio, which recently redesigned the interior of Nanas in Durham.

Stevie Webb said Wedgewood plans to bring an European experience to Carrboro.

“We’ve been able to do a lot with a little over the past couple of years, but with Wedgewood you’re really going to see our vision and experience at maximum horsepower,” said cheesemonger and co-owner Stevie Lee Webb in a release. “We finally have the space and independence to manifest this other-worldly, happy place; an homage to my native Britain and Europe, and other North American places we’ve called home. I’m looking forward to being your rather enthusiastic tour guide.”

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