This isn’t the end: the institution for cheese education is moving in with bagel- and cheese-maker Daily Driver at its flagship location in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
“It’s bittersweet to leave the Square,” Cheese School owner Jeanine Egan said Wednesday. “I’m completely heartbroken that we have to leave, but it’s the right thing to do for us. It’s the right thing to do for the communities that we support.”
The decision to move was made to “conserve our resources,” Egan explained. The rent for the massive Ghirardelli Square space was prohibitively expensive for the Cheese School, she said, and Ghirardelli Square landlord Jamestown was also seeking a tenant that could be open seven days a week. The Cheese School’s cafe and cheese shop used to be open to the public every day, but with reduced foot traffic and a smaller team following the pandemic, they were only able to open on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Cheese School of San Francisco is a destination for cheese classes and events.
Tommy Lau/Courtesy of The Cheese School
“To stay open on all of those days was really just a drain on our resources,” Egan said. “I needed to focus on what really brought in the most revenue for us, which was our classes and our events and our catering.”
In The Cheese School’s place, as first noted by Eater SF, a trendy Southern California restaurant is moving in. Broad Street Oyster Company debuted as a raw seafood pop-up in Los Angeles in 2017 before opening its first brick-and-mortar in Malibu two years later. Known for its decadent lobster rolls and other seafood dishes, the Ghirardelli Square location will be Broad Street’s first opening in Northern California. The two-story restaurant is anticipated to open mid-2023.
As for The Cheese School, moving in with Daily Driver — the only cheese-making creamery in San Francisco — was a natural fit. The two companies are frequent collaborators, with Daily Driver even operating…
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