A beloved Austin cheese counter and a nationwide overnight charcuterie kitchen, both cheese-loving but built for different moments. When you're shopping for a cheese-and-charcuterie gift online, the local cheese-monger shops and the ship-anywhere makers solve different problems, and the right pick depends on where you are and what you need to arrive at the door. Antonelli's Cheese Shop and Boarderie both take real cheese seriously, both are founder-led, and both have built loyal customers, but they are not the same product.
What's the actual difference between Boarderie and Antonelli's?
Boarderie ships chef-arranged cheese AND charcuterie boards overnight from our West Palm Beach kitchen, ready to set on the table. Antonelli's Cheese Shop is an Austin cheese counter, tasting room, and event space that also ships gift boxes nationwide. Two different products, two different gifting jobs.
Antonelli's was founded in February 2010 by John and Kendall Antonelli at 4220 Duval St in Austin's Hyde Park neighborhood. The shop is best known for its guided cheese tastings, retail cheese counter, cheese-club membership, raclette experiences, and corporate / private events. Their model is experiential: customers come to Austin to taste cheese with cheesemongers, or join a tasting virtually. They also ship gift boxes nationwide. The brand has been profiled in Business Insider, Austin Monthly, Community Impact, and Cheese Professor.
We started Boarderie in 2021 to answer a different question: what would it take to deliver a catering-quality cheese AND charcuterie board, fully arranged, anywhere in the country, overnight, ready to serve? The answer became a new product category. We have been featured on ABC's Shark Tank (Season 14), selected for Oprah's Favorite Things in 2022 and 2023, and named a Food Network Editor's Pick in 2025.
Both brands take real cheese seriously. The product format is not the same.
