North Central Austin Edition | June 2022

DINING FEATURE Spread & Co. Local couple turns love of cheese into restaurant D espite owning a cheese shop and sporting a cheese tattoo, Rosemary Ewald said her business idea was spurred by her love of making items like jams and pickles from scratch, along with the role food has played in her life. “My mom worked at the cheese shop, and my parents met working in restaurants,” Ewald said. Ewald started her business in 2016 as a delivery service. At the time, her husband, Austin, was working as a chef in Austin. Ewald was sourcing the cheese herself, making jams, mustards, pickles and crackers from scratch, and building and delivering large, elaborate cheese boards. At the beginning of 2019, Austin quit his job, and by the end of 2019 they opened their rst brick-and- mortar restaurant and cheese shop in the Jeerson Square Shopping Center. “It is a really loyal area,” Ewald said. “A lot of these businesses have been here for 20 years. I think that helped us survive the pandemic.” At the end of 2020, the couple opened a second location at The Contemporary Austin’s Laguna Gloria. Laguna Gloria is a sprawling, 1916 Itali- anate-style villa surrounded by 14 acres that serves as an art museum. “We were denitely really scared, because growth didn’t seem like a good idea,” Ewald said. Beyond cheese boards, the menu has been expanded to include all-day breakfast items. Ewald said some of the most popular menu items are the Monger’s Grilled Cheese, which features three cheeses picked by the shop, and two sandwiches that feature pork tartines made from pork shoulder and charcuterie ends—the Frenchie and Spamwich. “The fact that we were making everything from scratch made it easy to veer into breakfast and lunch,” Ewald said. “And then being a cheese shop, we are able to focus on cheese at the heart of everything.” BY DARCY SPRAGUE

BUILDING A BOARD Owner Rosemary Ewald helps customers customize their cheese board selections.

Here are her tips to get started: • Pick dierent styles of cheeses, such as a soft,

medium and hard cheese. • Add color to your board with a variety of fruits and edible owers. • Try dierent textures by serving crackers, jams and other accoutrements. • Mix up the milks by featuring dierent types of cheese, like cow and goat.

Customers can purchase curated boards or the ingredients to build their own.

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Spread & Co. A Jeerson Square: 1601 W. 38th St., Austin 512-814-2002 Hours: Tue.-Sun. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., closed Mon. B The Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria: 3809 W. 35th St., Austin 737-757-4367 Hours: Wed.-Sun. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., closed Mon. & Tues. www.spreadandco.com

Spread & Co. sells single-serve cheese board cones $10.

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The Spamwich includes a pork tartine made of pork shoulder and charcuterie pieces $10.

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Rosemary and Austin Ewald are the owners of Spread & Co.

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NORTH CENTRAL AUSTIN EDITION • JUNE 2022