Great selection of cheeses. When I explained that I was looking for something for a Halloween…read morecheese tasting, they immediately suggested the black lemon Gouda and was a very popular choice!

I would probably give this shop a 3 1/2 stars, if only I could - mainly because I love the vibrant…read moredisplay of goodies. It's a great shop for snooping around for gift ideas of all sorts - not just cheese. Only giving it a 3 star rating for now, at least until my next visit. I seem to be going to Perth on a more regular basis these days. My reasoning is that although they call themselves a cheese shop, I don't remember much about their cheeses! They are offering a variety of other things as well, and cheese is not even the first thing you see when you walk in the door, although I do remember seeing one refrigerator of a variety of cheeses offered. This is a store, and not a restaurant, so there's no seating inside. Everywhere you look, you see eye candy! It would be a great place to find a gift for that special someone in your life. There's plenty of parking outside and near the shop, and it's down town and close to other amenities, like the Perth Museum. I'll take another look during a future visit to Perth, just to get a better glimpse and possibly a taste of their cheese :-)

TL;DR/The Short Version: It's a grocery store, lol, but has…read moresome local items that other Metro locations across Canada don't have. The Long Version: So everytime I'm visiting a city or town that's far from home (far being a relative term, but anywhere about 100km or more from my house, lol) I like to check out the grocery stores, even the large chains, because I find stores always have local items that I can't easily get at home. So while we were in Perth, ON, my husband humoured me and came with me to the Perth Metro. I was thrilled to see local-ish items like Artizen Kombucha (brewed in Perth) and Merrickville Bakery cookies (not in Perth but Merrickville is nearby and closer to Perth than it is to Ottawa, where I'm living). I also spotted an alcoholic version of Tahiti Treat, which I've never seen before. I loved Tahiti Treat as a kid! The store is fairly large. It was nearly organized and clean looking. I liked how the aisles are named after local streets or areas (in addition to having a number). We got a bottle of the pineapple coconut Artizen Kombucha ($3.99). The cashier was courteous and efficient. Note they have no self checkout kiosks here. Lots of free parking in their private lot in front of the store. Review #44 (2025)

You're probably not going to eat the best meal of your life here, but it's OK…read more I went with the Ruben wrap which was kind of a dumb idea on my part. I should've known better. I mean how good can a reuben be on a wrap. It can't compare to a proper one. It's the lazy man's way...It was OK but not great. Their fries on the other hand are superb! My husband had the steak sandwich with chimichurri sauce. He gave it a 3.5 out of 5 and said they could've put more chimichurri sauce on it to give it more flavor. The best dish at our table was a sweet potato, noodle, veggie ginger bowl. Their prices are very reasonable and our waitress was nice and service was good.

Gosh, I wanted this to be better. Arugula salad was fine although dressing was not on the side as…read morerequested - ewe blue cheese is salty and an odd grey color but gave a great tang. Calamari was a hard pass - very over cooked and no flavor. Left more than half of it behind. Lemonade was actually water with a lemon in it as a result of an error with the soda gun. Waitress fixed it but Sigh. A beautiful building with a great chocolate shop next door.

So wanted to like what was on offer here and have an addition to my excuses-to-go-to-Perth list…read more But. Yikes! Did not particularly want to write a negative review, but this was such a waste of money that it feels worse to not warn people. Caveat: perhaps meat entrees are good, or baked goods are good; we don't know -- we only bought frozen take-away vegetarian dishes. And they were uniformly awful. Tried: bread pudding -- bland, gritty, soggy, nothing to redeem this. Stir-fry with cashews -- overcooked, incredibly bland. This came with rice and the sort of mistake only a very amateur cook could make, viz: let's season the stir-fry without considering that we're going to mix in rice and... But I doubt the stir-fry was adequately seasoned even before it got all the (somewhat mushy) rice stirred in; the entire thing was flavourless. Sweet potato casserole -- probably okay for what it was supposed to be, a very Americanised dish totally overloaded with sugar, with no textural or flavour helps. We attempted a fourth dish which is now forgotten; I think it may have been a soggy and bland pasta -- it wasn't edible. None of the four dishes we took home were worth finishing, and we would've been mortified to serve them to anybody else. The people behind this are apparently so lacking in so much basic knowledge about cooking and freezing that I wouldn't hold out hope for other dishes. Very simple things that anybody who cooks for family or friends would know -- like how food will be transformed by freezing, and what modifications should be made to account for that -- were clearly quite beyond the cook's ken here. It would have been a very disappointing set of meals from a discount mass-produced frozen food line; it was a rip-off for a specialty store. So disappointed at the wasted time and money and high hopes. It is in general hard to find good food in the Valley; Perth has some notable exceptions to this, but "Sweet and Savoury" is not one of them.

TL;DR/The Short Version: Cool health food store in Perth,…read moreON. Lots of local, organic, and ethically sourced products. The Long Version: I love health food stores, so I had to check out Foodsmiths when we were in Perth. It's similar to Dandelion Foods in Almonte, and Natural Food Pantry or Kardish in Ottawa. Foodsmiths does seem to have more local items though and they have a formidable bakery section that the other stores I mentioned lack. They had tarts from Mrs. Garrett's Bake Shop (in Inverary, Ontario). As an aside, when I hear Mrs. Garrett, I will forever think of Charlotte Rae's character in "The Facts of Life." Lol. This clearly exposes me of being of a certain vintage ;) The regular prices of items that are easily found at other stores (e.g. Carbonaut, Made Good, Organic Meadow, etc.) are a tad higher than at the stores in Ottawa, but they have clearance sections and discounted items throughout the store. We were there at the end of January (2025) and I noticed a small Lunar New Year display with red lanterns, red parasols and a blue dragon. I was surprised to see that they sell sandals (!) They're all Birkenstock style sandals though, lol, the brands I saw were Finn Comfort, Haflinger, and Mephisto. I enjoyed poking around the store. Lots of free parking in their private parking lot. Review #45 (2025)

Foodsmiths is an unexpected gem of a grocery store, with a solid selection of personal health care…read moreproducts too, and some devices in Perth... I doubt that most other towns the size of Perth have such a store. This is one of my fields of expertise as an urban geographer, so I am planning to pursue this hypothesis further...

Wonderful service with a lovely decor and good coffee make this a worthwhile stop in downtown…read morePerth. They have a lovely bright indoor seating area in behind the coffee counter, sidewalk seating, and more seating in front of the counter. And bonus, they also have gelato. And baked goods, though I didn't manage to try them. Will make this a stop anytime I am in Perth

Very friendly cafe shop with taste gelatos. Service was excellent, tried a few gelato options and a…read morevegan tahini cookie, all were very well.

Incredibly knowledgeable and personable ambassador walked us through the process of not only just…read morewhisky, but vodka, moonshine, and the other spirits available. Incredible choice of pairings from local cheese producers rounded off the tour. Highly recommended for any whisky lover.

AMAZING PRODUCTS AMAZING PEOPLE…read moreNot a smidge of exaggeration here, TopShelf has the best tasting booze on the face of this planet. Customer service is leaps and bounds above ANY other company I know of. Gun to my head, I would not be able to say a single negative thing about TopShelf Distillers.