I went to the world's first cheese conveyor belt and learned you can have too much of a good thing

Anneta KonstantinidesAug 9, 2022, 21:16 IST

I tried to eat everything from the world's first cheese conveyor belt, and learned you truly can have too much of a good thing.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

I visited the world's first cheese conveyor belt, located at Pick & Cheese in London.
I went in with the mission to try all 26 different plates of cheese, but only made it to 18.

I set off for Pick & Cheese on a surprisingly sunny January day.

Pick & Cheese is in London's Covent Garden district (pictured).Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

After just a few minutes of walking from the tube station, Google Maps informed me I had reached my destination.

You can find Pick & Cheese inside Seven Dials Market.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

As I walked into the market, I swore I could already smell the first whiffs of cheese. I followed my nose and soon found myself right in front of the conveyor belt.

Pick & Cheese's bar was packed for lunch.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

As I waited for my friend to arrive, I decided to get a closer look at the main attraction: the conveyor belt.

The conveyor belt at Pick & Cheese.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Pick & Cheese serves 26 different plates of British cheeses and meats, which range in price from $3.60 (£2.75) to $7.99 (£6.10).

The menu at Pick & Cheese.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

My friend Ekin arrived and a waiter seated us at the last two empty stools at the bar. He then showed us the tray where we were meant to stack our plates.

A tray for empty plates was set before us at the bar.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

My spirits were high as I grabbed our first two plates of cheese.

I was brimming with confidence as I started my cheese journey.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Driftwood is a soft goat cheese from Somerset, England, that has won multiple accolades in the World Cheese Awards over the last few years.

One of my favorite cheeses from the belt was Driftwood (pictured), a soft goat cheese.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Burwash Rose, a semi-soft cheese from Sussex, England, was one of Ekin's favorites.

My friend Ekin loved the Burwash Rose cheese, which came with a flapjack.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

With our first two dishes down, Ekin and I started to get confident. Really confident.

Me and Ekin picked up six dishes after breezing through our first two.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Our spirits were so high that we decided to take another two plates off the belt.

Feeling cocky, we then picked up two more.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

As we went through our first few plates, I found there were so many different ways to build a perfect bite.

I loved trying to create the perfect bite as I experimented with the cheeses, pairings, and crackers.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

We both enjoyed the Sparkenhoe Red Leicester and Baron Bigod cheeses, which had vastly different tastes but worked beautifully with their respective pairings.

The Sparkenhoe Red Leicester cheese (right) and the Baron Bigod (left).Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

We also tried Stilton, a traditional English cheese, paired with a chocolate and oat cookie.

The Stilton cheese was paired with a chocolate cookie.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

The conveyor belt allowed us to easily mix and match different cheeses with different spreads, depending on our own individual preferences.

We paired the sticky pear jam that came with the Beauvale cheese (seen on the plate) with the tangy Maida Vale cheese (seen on the cracker).Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Somewhere around plate number 10 I began losing steam — fast.

As we hit double digits, I started feeling overwhelmed.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Ekin and I tried to stayed motivated with impromptu dance breaks.

Ekin and I took dance breaks to keep each other motivated.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

I tried to break things up with the meat plates, but they just made things harder.

The Devil's Mortar plate.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

After plate 16, Ekin and I knew we couldn't go on much longer. We decided to end our journey with the cheesecake.

Clearly struggling, we decided to end things with the cheesecake.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

We stacked up all our plates, putting the bits of cheeses and meats that we couldn't finish on the top.

We almost completely finished 17 plates.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

But that cheesecake must have had superpowers, because we got a second wind when we saw this plate coming down the conveyor belt.

But we decided to go for plate 18 when we saw this beautiful Cornish Gouda with a cumin praline.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

After nearly two-and-a-half hours, 18 plates, and $100.15 (£77) worth of cheese, our journey had finally come to an end.

I only had seven dishes left to try, but I couldn't eat anymore.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

The conveyor belt helped me expand my horizons and try varieties of cheese that I would never usually go for.

Overall, I absolutely loved my experience at Pick & Cheese.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

I learned a lot about my own palette and what kind of cheese pairings work for me. And, most importantly, I had a ton of fun.

It was the perfect reminder that, at the end of the day, cheese should be fun for everyone.Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

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