Cheese Bar DSM

Come hang! 🤙
Have your buds meet you at Cheese Bar today!

Happy Fry-day!🍟

Pictured here are our Loaded Fries —
Hand cut organic potatoes, house made cheese sauce, bacon, herbed creme fraiche, pickles

Bubbles & Bites 🫧🥂
In case you needed an excuse to treat yourself!
We have $6 glasses of sparkling wine, $6 snacks, and $1 off pours of Champagne Vollereaux from 2 to 5pm daily.

This week’s bites…
• Fried Oysters with remoulade, parsley, and creole mustard
• Grilled Shish*tos with grana, lemon, and olive oil
• Miso Butter Green Beans with chili crunch and spice toasted almonds

This week’s Special Grilled Cheese is best enjoyed in the sunshine on the patio! 🍅🫑☀️

Summer Bounty Grilled Cheese — Our local cheese blend, ReGeneration Farm Mt. Magic tomato jam, SunRise Farm shish*to peppers, ReGeneration Farm Jimmy Nardello peppers, Mary's Farm & Garden pickled peppers, Mary’s Farm & Garden duck egg

Heirloom tomatoes + fresh pesto 🤝

This week’s Special Grilled Cheese — Local cheese blend, heirloom tomatoes (from Chef Brett’s garden), La Quercia Speck, basil & celeriac leaf pesto 🌿🍅

You can’t say no to this fro-yo…
Now scooping: Salted Mango Lassi Frozen Yogurt 🥭

Get it while we’ve got it!

🌭 DOG DAYS 🌭
What do you get when you cross a chicken and an oyster? This.

Chicken & Oyster Po’Boy Dog — House made smoked chicken andouille sausage, fried oysters, shredded lettuce, marinated cherry tomato, pickles, remoulade, creole mustard

Available through next Wednesday.
New hot dog specials every Thursday!

A grilled cheese complete with hot honey to share with your hot honey! Tag them! 😉🔥

This week’s Special Grilled Cheese — Our local cheese blend, Mary’s Farm & Garden duck egg, La Quercia N’duja, Cheese Bar hot honey

✨ Summer Specials ✨
A few highlights from our new specials menu:

Summer Pickle Plate - Selection of our seasonal house made pickles

Chipotle Glazed Pork Belly - Confit pork belly, honey chipotle glaze, spicy corn salad, pickled red onions

Smoked Potatoes - Austrian Crescent potato, black garlic + wild ramp vinaigrette, whipped yogurt, dill

Pressed Pork Terrine - Pressed pork riblets, crispy cabbage salad, preserved watermelon molasses

Smoked Ribs & Creamed corn - Vande Rose Farms spareribs, Bridgewater Farm creamed corn, maple + cherry BBQ sauce, braised chard, pickled chard

🌭 DOG DAYS 🌭
We’ll let this one speak for itself. 🔥

Pork Belly BBQ Dog — House made black garlic brat, confit pork belly, Ssamjang, kimchi quark, marinated cucumber, CB chili crunch, green onion

Available through next Wednesday!
New hot dog specials every Thursday!

We’ve got another really good one for our mushroom fans…🍄‍🟫

Special Grilled Cheese — Alpine cheese blend, wild mushrooms, caramelized onions, bacon

🌭 DOG DAYS 🌭
This week’s special is the First Date Dog… 💋🧄

First Date Dog (Garlic Bomb Dog)— House made black garlic brat, confit garlic quark, pickled garlic mayo, garlic fried cabbage slaw, pickled green garlic & scapes

Available through next Wednesday!
New hot dog specials every Thursday!

Egg, spicy cheese, salsa verde 😋
Kinda’ like a breakfast burrito, but it’s grilled cheese!

Special Grilled Cheese — 4-Alarm Cheddar cheese blend, local cheese blend, fried duck egg, salsa verde

Happy Mac & Cheese Day! 🧀
Tomorrow is National Mac & Cheese Day! Let’s party!

Our friends at La Quercia Cured Meats have a new Spicy N’Duja, so we’re celebrating that too!

Join the festivities by enjoying our new Special Mac — La Quercia Spicy N’Duja, La Quercia guanciale, Hook’s Blue Paradise cheese, mornay sauce, Rustichella noodles, our mac cheese blend, pickled red onion, parsley

We’re bringing the summer flavors with this one! Freshly picked basil and wild black raspberry jam! So good! 🌱☀️

This week’s Special Grilled Cheese — Roasted duck breast, our local cheese blend, wild black raspberry jam, Cheese Bar basil (from our own garden!), feta

It’s a good day for happy hour!
Yep, we even do Bubbles & Bites happy hour on Saturday. 🥂🫧

$5 glasses of Champagne and sparkling wine + $5 select small plate snacks from 2 to 5pm!

Bubbles & Bites snacks…
— Bresola “Air-Dried Beef” and Pleasant Ridge Reaerve
— Chicken + Cheese tostada
— Smoked Bread Cheese with Maple Syrup and Espellette d’ Iowa

We are CLOSED today, 7/4!
See ya’ tomorrow!

☮️❤️&🧀

It’s mushroom season… 🍄‍🟫🪵

This week’s Special Grilled Cheese — Alpine cheese blend, wild mushroom mix, pickled ramps, fried egg, umami powder

We heard you guys like kimchi and garlic… 🧄

Special Grilled Cheese — Alpine cheese, miso buttered chicken, Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi, grilled garlic scapes 😋

🦪 NEW SPECIAL 🦪

Island Creek Jumbo oysters, house made Tasso ham, Tasso butter, mint & lovage gremolata, grilled garlic scapes

Here while supplies last!

Our hours are a little different this week, so read carefully…

• Tuesday: 11am to 2pm; CLOSED 2 to 5pm for a private event; OPEN again for dinner 5 to 9pm

• Wednesday: 11am to 2pm; CLOSED for dinner (unless you have tickets to our Chianti dinner 🍷 — see our last post for details & to snag a seat!)

• Thursday - Saturday: Normal hours, 11am to 9pm

Cheese Bar is hosting a stunning Badia a Coltibuono Chianti Dinner with special guest, Owner and Winemaker Roberto Stucchi. 🍷🇮🇹

Since 1846 Badia a Coltibuono has belonged to the Stucchi Prinetti family. Six generations have succeeded with passion and respect for its extraordinary legacy. The Stucchi are to be considered pioneers of Chianti, having invested in the land since 1846 when their ancestor, Florentine banker Michele Giuntini bought the beautiful property. Since then the property has flourished.


As always, Chef Brett has masterfully crafted a thoughtful menu to coincide with each course.

- First -
Strawberry Bruschetta with Mozzarella di Buffalo / Cultusboni Cetamura Chianti

- Second -
Waygu Beef Tartar with Pecorino Toscano / RS Chianti Classico

- Third -
Tortellini en Prosciutto Consommé / Badia a Coltibuno Chianti Classico

- Fourth -
Duck Breast & Cheesy Polenta / Badia a Coltibuno Chianti Riserva

- Fifth -
Orange Ice Cream and Almond Cookie / Vin Santo del Chianti Classico

We would love to see you there!

- $125 per person for 5 courses and 5 wines
- Call Cheese Bar at 515-277-7828 to reserve your spot
- Wednesday, 6/19
- Reception 6pm, Dinner begins at 6:30pm
- 2925 Ingersoll Ave, Des Moines, IA 50312

✨ New Specials ✨

Sambal Spareribs & Cabbage —Sambal smoked ribs, miso-butter glazed napa cabbage, kimchi mayo, h**p seeds

Duck, Chants & Farro — Confit duck leg, wild chanterelles, mushroom farrotto, rhubarb gastrique

Morel & Asparagus Flatbread — Smoked mushroom white sauce, P.N.W. wild morel mushrooms, roasted asparagus, pickled asparagus, green onion, garlic

So good! Get them while we’ve got them!

🌭 DOG DAYS 🌭
A lil umami and garlicky dog for y’all…

Kimchi Duck Dog — House made duck hot dog, Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi, Alpine cheese blend, miso-sambal mustard, miso garlic scapes

Available through next week! New hot dog specials every Thursday!

Stop in today for “A Feast For Your Eyes”: Artist x Restaurant Collaborations | Art Week 2024!

Our inspiration was the wonderful big bunny (who greets our guests at our north entrance) by artist Rob Stephens. 🐰

We’ll be serving Rabbit Tartine and mixing up White Rabbit cocktails all day!

Catch us for lunch today!

We will be closing down for a private event at 2pm.

You need this. 🥟🌭
The Dumpling Dog is this week’s Dog Days special!

Dumpling Dog — Cabbage wrapped chicken & mushroom sausage, green onion quark, radish & cabbage slaw, crispy fried wontons

Add fries if you wanna’!
Available through next week. We put out new hot dog specials every Thursday!

It looks a little different out front, but we are still open and would LOVE to see you!

Parking is available right behind our building and can be accessed from 29th Street. Please be mindful of the neighboring businesses’ signage as there are some spaces dedicated to their clients. Most of the lot is all good for Cheese Bar/Adio Building visitors however! 🙂

Corell Contractors are doing a great job! Let’s send them all the good weather vibes!

This combo of flavors though… 😋

Special Grilled Cheese — Alpine cheese blend, chicken roulade, mushroom duxelles, fried egg, smoked green garlic powder