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What's in your wallet? Antonelli's Cheese Shop featured in Capital One commercial

John and Kendall Antonelli joined Trevor Scott to discuss their pandemic pivot story.

Creative strategies to help small businesses

John and Kendall Antonelli, owners of Antonelli’s Cheese Shop in Austin, Texas, are driven by their mission, ‘Do good, eat good’, which for them means telling the stories of food, working with great producers, and honoring the tradition of making food the right way through their artisanal cheese shop.

Do Good, Eat Good, and Pivot Your Business for Success!

John and Kendall Antonelli, owners of Antonelli's Cheese Shop in Austin, Texas share their pandemic pivot story and how they are not surviving, but thriving.

WMAR Baltimore- Antonelli's Cheese Shop

Owners John and Kendall Antonelli decided early on that keeping their staff and supporting local cheesemakers were the two most important parts of pulling their business through the pandemic. Read more on how Capital One Spark Cash Plus Card helped their business.

GODADDY - #OPENWESTAND- 2020

The Antonellis have always loved food, particularly fine cheeses. In 2010, they transformed their passion into a business, and Antonelli’s Cheese Shop in Austin was born.

VISIT FRANCE THE CHEESE WAY-2021

“While you are waiting for the borders to reopen why not take a culinary trip by way of French Fromages? Here, five tantalizing, regional tastes.”

CAPITALONE LEARN & GROW-2020

How Your Business Mission Can Guide You Through a Downturn With its purpose firmly intact, this mission-driven business is shifting its strategy during COVID-19.

CAPITALONE LEARN & GROW-2020

Antonelli’s Small Business Picks: Holiday Eats for Foodies. Cheese shop owners John and Kendall Antonelli show you how to build a meal around a cheese board.

DATING ADVICE-2020

Antonelli’s Cheese Shop Helps Couples Enjoy Decadent Date Nights at Home.

TRIBEZA AUSTIN CURATED-2020

Austin Under 40 Names Austinite Of The Year. Austinite Of The Year.

GODADDY - #OPENWESTAND- 2020

The Antonellis have always loved food, particularly fine cheeses. In 2010, they transformed their passion into a business, and Antonelli’s Cheese Shop in Austin was born.

CHEESE CONNOISSEUR-2019

“Becoming a cheesemonger is special,” he says. “Taking the cheeses people have been nurturing for months on end and telling their story is an honor, and I really enjoy it.”

EDIBLE AUSTIN-2019

Time and time again, Austin’s essential cheese institution has taken the title of Local Heroes Food Shop.

AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL-2018

Kendall Antonelli co-owns a cheese shop with her husband on a charming corridor in Central Austin’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The homegrown business fits perfectly with her love of interacting with people and for being involved in projects from the ground up — a realization made clear to her after once working in the bureaucracy of Washington, D.C.

AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL-2018

Antonelli's Cheese LLC is thriving, with a standalone shop in Hyde Park. The company hosts more than 200 events a year, from tastings and classes to private parties. It's also the go-to cheese source for many of the region's top chefs, sourcing ethically made and hard-to-find varieties from around the globe.

VIDEO KXAN-108

It’s Time to Get Real Cheesy.Kendall Antonellis talks with KXAN Studio 512 on a mini cheese lesson and what to expect when visiting their Hyde Park Shop.

WINE SPECTATOR-2018

What are the cheese pros excited about right now? Like wine, the world of cheese is vast and diverse—potentially overwhelming, but rewarding to explore.

THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE

If you like cheese like we like cheese – and, man, we really like cheese – there's no better place to get your goat (or sheep or cow) than Antonelli's

AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN-2017

John Antonelli has been a member of the American Cheese Society since before he and his wife, Kendall, even officially got into the cheese business. But last week, Antonelli’s Cheese Shop took another step forward into the international spotlight when John, a longtime board member of ACS, took the helm as president of one of the world’s leading cheese organizations.

MOVERS+MAKERS-2017

It’s safe to say that working with cheese all day long would be many people’s idea of a dream job. For Kendall and John Antonelli, that dream is a reality.

FAVOR DELIVERY-2017

John Antonelli: Confessions of a Texas Cheesemonger. For National Cheese Lover’s Day, The American Cheese Society Vice President and Austin cheese shop hero, John Antonelli, shares his cheesiest pairings and pick-up lines.

AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL -2016

Meet Kendall Antonelli, co-owner, Antonelli’s Cheese Shop. A country girl with a worldly view. Her first name, Kendall, comes from the Texas county her parents drove through one day and settled there because it was pretty. Her middle name, Sky, was inspired by the Hill Country views

TRAVEL AND LEISURE MAGAZINE- 2014

Best Cheese Shops in America It's hard to believe that foodie hotbed Austin didn't have its own dedicated cheese shop until 2010. That's when John and Kendall Antonelli, who used to run a grilled cheese club from their house, went pro with this opening in historic Hyde Park. John quit his job as a CPA, and the two went on a European tasting mission that included an internship at a French affineur, or cheese ager. Antonelli's stocks a number of Texas-made varieties from the goat farms of Texas Hill Country and cattle farms out on the Plains .

COMMUNITY IMPACT -2012

Austin couple celebrate love of cheese and each other John and Kendall Antonelli opened Antonelli's Cheese Shop in February 2010 to do more than just sell cheese. John said they wanted to share their passion with everyone in Austin after the idea first began to form about five years ago.

CHOWHOUND-2011

“Austin’s Lone Cheese Rangers” In Hyde Park, we visited Austin’s only dedicated cheese shop, Antonelli’s. John and Kendall Antonelli, the shop’s owners, sell cheeses from all over the world, including some made in Texas, as well as cured meats...

AUSTIN CHRONICLE- 2010

A Portrait of the Cheesemonger as a Young Couple Antonelli's Cheese Shop is an intimate neighborhood shop where curious patrons can taste everything, ask a million questions, and have their selections cut to order.

EDIBLE AUSTIN-2010

Marketplace: Antonelli’s Cheese Shop “In an MBA program, you’re basically supposed to build a business model,” says John Antonelli. “Why not try to execute it at the same time?” And that’s just what he did. Without actually going back to school, Antonelli applied the traditional graduate degree template—lock onto a passion, research, cultivate mentors, intern, write a business plan—to the world of cheese

VIDEO 2020 - KXAN

Time and time again, Austin’s essential cheese institution has taken the title of Local Heroes Food Shop.

GENEROUS BUSINESS AWARDS-2019

Austin Gives Charitable Champion Finalist: Austin Bar Association

AUSTIN AFTER HOURS-2019

Almost too Gouda to be True! The Story of Antonelli's Cheese Shop

AUSTIN 360-2019

Antonelli’s Cheese Shop owners talk mental health and a healthy marriage on ‘I Love You So Much’.

BEST CHEESE SHOPS

Cheese—in all its gooey, crumbly, farm-fresh, or cave-aged incarnations—is having a moment.

FOX7AUSTIN-2020

Austin cheese shop shows how you can make changes to stay in business and help the community

FOX7AUSTIN - 2019

Antonelli's gives recommendations for National Cheese Day.

AUSTIN UNDER 40 - 2019

Austin under 40 winners unveiled, including Austinite of the year.

CAPITAL ONE - 2020

Capital One highlights the Antonellis’ entrepreneurial story and pivots during the pandemic at these 3 segments.1. Part 1: (10:55-12:23) 2. Part 2: (29:26-31:45) 3. Part 3: (51:33-53:26)

CBS AUSTIN - 2020

Celebrate American Cheese Month with Antonelli's Cheese Shop!

SHIPSTATION STORY: ANTONELLI’S CHEESE SHOP

Husband and wife, John and Kendall Antonelli, turned their passion into profit by starting Antonelli’s Cheese shop in Austin, Texas in February of 2010. Starting as a small business that cut and sold cheese for orders, the company began with just three employees but has grown significantly since.

THE GOURMET RETAILER-2014

My wife, Kendall, and I made a honeymoon decision to quit our jobs in search of a passion that would allow us to use our strengths - eating, talking, and being together (with the goal of traveling with family). We put it all together in Austin's first cheese shop .

THINGS I'VE LEARNED: JOHN & KENDALL ANTONELLI

After eight years in Hyde Park, Antonelli's Cheese Shop opens a second location at downtown's Fareground.

THE WORD ON CHEESE CULTURE- 2020

When asked about a memorable cheese experience or bite this year, I have to quiet and still my mind from overwhelming recollections of hustling to keep a business alive, team members employed, and cheese moving.