The Cheese Factory

The Cheese Factory is Edmonton's undisputed best place to buy poutine cheese curds, but there are so many other delicious products offered at an affordable price. My personal favorite is their smoked beer cheese, best served when bbq'd for 3 minutes that pairs perfect with an IPA beer. Their feta cheese is super fresh which is very notable when compared to the grocery store brand names. Honorable mention to their new blueberry and cranberry cheddar cheese blocks 🧀 that I now serve my guests as part of our charcuterie board. My guests are always impressed when we entertain! Big surprise, Mario's Poutine and Pizzeria is next door and offers many of these marvelous cheese products on their menu. Sorry vegans, but I recommend substituting the bacon with Montreal smoked meat on the Supreme Pizza. And the same smoked meat on their signature poutine which is the best in Edmonton hand down!!!

My granddaughter and I stopped here for poutine yes it was good but very small the amount of gravy was so minimal and it cost $7. but the biggest complaint is the cupcakes we spent $4 and bought three cupcakes and when we got home to take them out and eat them the cupcake was seriously as hard as a hockey puck and the icing was yucky as a baker myself I could pretty much tell you those cupcakes were four or five days old and one of them was slightly burned anyways yeah the cheese is good but so far the baking huge disappointment

I use to LOVE the beer cheese. Buy 4-5 packs every time I was in Edmonton, but the last 6-7 packages have not been good at all. Don’t taste smoked and very very dry, it seems that since they have started supplying the grocery stores the product is not the same. It’s too bad because it was my favourite cheese.

I don’t want to give too low or high of a rating here but hear me out... Something has changed with the cheese curd recipe over the last year or so. I loved the cheese curds here. Would go out of my way to just head here for a bag. The last 3 bags have tasted quite a bit different. At first I thought it was a not a great batch kind of day. Happened again. I hadn’t purchased for awhile after that until today. Stopped in since I was in the area. Again they taste weird!! I don’t know how to describe it other than they seem to be more tart and a lot less salty. The curds in the bag today were also Super soft and didn’t have the very audible squeak they had in the passed. Last thing, the bags also seem to have more and more of the whitish clear liquid in them. Anyway, this place does have lots of yummy cheeses to try (smoked beer cheese delicious) but truth be told, I don’t like how the cheese curds have changed.

I got some curds on Saturday. These aren't the same cheese curds. They feel and taste like squeekers, God awful. Maybe I just got a bad batch, or maybe the quality went down since you supply the supermarkets. Threw the rest in the garbage that how terrible your curds are now. Please get back to normal.