Paste & Rind

May the 4th be cheesy 🧀🚀⭐️ @shelburnefarms 2 Year Cheddar and @gruyere_aop attempt at the @starwars Millennium Falcon Star Wars fans please don’t come for me, my husband has already pointed out all of the pieces of the ship I missed 😂

We’re taking a rare weekend away to celebrate a family wedding, but Hill’s Kitchen isn’t slowing down! While we’re gone, two of our favorite guest instructors are taking over the kitchen and we couldn’t be leasing it in better hands. 🧀American Originals: A Cheese Tasting with Paste & Rind Saturday 5/16 • Two Sessions: 11am-12pm and 1pm-2pm • $45 Kara McGrath of @pasteandrind joins us for a guided tasting of four exceptional American cheeses, each paired with thoughtfully chosen bites. May is American Cheese Month and there’s no better way to celebrate. 🌸Floral Focaccia with Quince Blossom Ridge Sunday 5/17 • 11am-1pm • $85 Alex Mudry of @quinceblossomridge is back in our kitchen for a morning of bread and botanicals! You’ll decorate focaccia with flowers, herbs, and vegetables and bake a beautiful loaf to take home. Two awesome classes, one wonderful weekend. Link in bio to grab your spot, we’ll see you when we’re back.

Alp Blossom is too pretty to stay just in stories, she deserves a spot on the grid 🌸🧀✨ I’ll be at @henceforth_dc Friday and Sunday for Trolley Club pickups this weekend! Pick up your cheese, have a glass of wine or beer, and catch up with me! I want to see you!

Things are heating up and kicking off! 🧀🍻🔥 Come join me for a guided beer and cheese tasting at @henceforth_dc Thursday 4/30 at 7pm! We’ll be tasting through four different pairings, featuring some new brews from the Henceforth crew! Link in bio for tickets! 📸: @b.holder.images

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We're so excited to announce the partnership between Henceforth and Paste & Rind! Join us at Henceforth starting this Friday, April 17th to get your fix of Kara's curated cheese boards paired with one of Ben's tasty brews or a wine from our updated wine list. #henceforthdc #henceforthcheese #pasteandrind #craftedonHstreet @b.holder.images 📷

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you already know the big news, but if you haven’t signed up yet, stay tuned for the official announcement tomorrow!

We’re brewing up something new at Paste & Rind! More details to follow soon! 📸: @b.holder.images

Such an enchanting conversation with @milk_trekker at @boldforkbooks this evening! Thank you so much to everyone who came out to our sold out event - it makes my heart warm to see so many Paste & Rind friends in the audience! And everyone go buy Trevor’s book! It’s great!

Sitting in my feelings, I feel that the world needs to know how unbelievably amazing @jbags82 Chef John is. I don’t think I’ve ever worked with someone who so seamlessly “got it” and made my life better every day. He is brilliant, and talented, and dedicated, and creative, and hilarious. There is no one else who could have kept the steady drum beat of 904 H running and kept me sane for the past two years. John and I connected from a job posting I made in a dumb restaurant industry group, and he managed to not judge me too harshly on my lack of hiring experience as I interviewed him while also working a full bar and asked him insane, disorganized questions. I’m so grateful he was able to see past my stress and chaos and took a chance on me and my cheese dream. He was not intimidated by the amount of work a small business with a tiny team would ask of him, and he never judged me for my disorder or perpetual lateness. He was always willing to indulge my schemes and harebrained ideas and my tornado of thoughts. At 904 H and at Union Market, John did everything - he made most of the cheese slates served, he made a million cheese boards, and cut up countless quarter pounds of cheese, he taught classes, and ran private events and so much more. Many of my most proud cheese accomplishments were only possible because I had him as my partner. The hardest part of saying goodbye to 904 H has been grappling with the fact that I don’t get to see John everyday. But our bond goes deeper than one physical space and now he’s permanently stuck with me texting him weird cheese ideas and pictures of my dog. So everyone tell him how amazing he is and follow him where ever he goes because he whatever he does next, it’s going to be worth your time!

Hey cheese friends - it’s been two weeks since our last day of public facing action at 904 H, and I had to jump immediately into some family stuff, so I’ve been a little slow to post. (Also it feels bad to be on the internet right now and somehow the world has gotten even more horrific.) I’ve had a little bit time to reflect on our time at the bar, and especially of this past December. And while I am full of many different emotions, the most prevalent one is of gratitude. Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who came out and supported us, all along, and especially in our final days as a bar. December was a record breaking month, with busier bar nights, frantic markets, an unreal amount cheeseboards, and still over 100 club memberships, even though we told everyone it was ending and we wouldn’t be mad if they canceled for the last month. It was a blur of cheese and tears and friends and supporters and SO.MUCH.WINE. Truly H Street, you folks came out and drank all of the wine. I placed what I thought was my “last wine order” three times so I wouldn’t run out too early. All of this intensity and love tells me that we built something awesome, and gives me confidence that whatever comes next, I know I have people in my corner. So stay tuned! I’ve got a long winter’s nap coming up, and I don’t know exactly what’s after that, but I’ll keep this account filled with cheese and farm animals and updates when I have them. Thank you, my dear cheese and wine and H Street community- how lucky I am to have had this time with you all. For now, I’ll see you around the neighborhood❤️🧀

12/25/25 - Christmas, my birthday, Cheesemas, today is many things in the Paste & Rind house so of course this is how we are celebrating ❤️🎂🧀 Merry Merry all of the things today to all of you wonderful cheese friends!