Meat & Cheese

Italian Meat and Cheese, Handcrafted and Shipped From Manhattan

Our meat and cheese selection brings the Italian table to your door, hand-prepared at Kesté Pizza Go and shipped frozen in ice across the US. Roberto Caporuscio grew up on a dairy farm in Pontinia making and selling cheese before he became a Neapolitan pizza maker, and he still teaches cheese making at the pizza school in our Manhattan restaurant. That dairy craft is the root of everything in this category, which today opens with our Burrata and grows from there. Nothing here is mass-produced; it carries the same hand-work as the dough.

The Italian Meat and Cheese Tradition

In Italy, cheese and cured meat are never an afterthought: they open the meal. A good board balances something fresh and milky against something aged and savory, with bread and oil to carry it. Our Italian cheese follows that logic, made by hand to an imported Italian standard rather than pressed on a factory line, and sealed cold within hours so it reaches you the way it left the counter. Every region of Italy has its own cheeses and cured meats, and the ritual of laying them out is as old as the meal itself. The best boards stay simple, letting each piece speak for itself.

Because fresh cheese is naturally gluten free, it slots easily into a table that also orders from our gluten free range, and it needs no cooking at all. This is food built for sharing: set it out, let it come to temperature, and it does the work while the oven handles the pizza. A few good ingredients, arranged simply, are the whole idea. It also keeps well, so a single order can cover more than one dinner.

How Italian Cheese Completes the Table

Cheese was made to sit next to pizza. A cold, creamy centerpiece against a hot, just-baked Margherita from our Neapolitan pizzas is one of the simplest pleasures of an Italian meal, and it turns a pizza night into a fuller spread without a second recipe. Add tomatoes, basil, good oil and a crack of pepper and the plate is done. Fresh cheese and hot crust is a contrast that never gets old.

For a complete antipasto, the same selection pairs with the cured items and pantry staples in our Italian specialties, the meat and cheese plate that opens a meal in our Manhattan restaurant. Nothing on it needs cooking, which is what makes it the easiest way to round out a pizza order into a full Italian dinner at home. It is the part of the meal that takes the least effort for the most reward.

Italian Cheese Shipped Cold to Your Door

Everything in the meat and cheese range is packed cold and shipped overnight in ice, the same logistics that carry our pizzas across the country. Fresh cheese is delicate, so the frozen-in-ice format protects the texture in transit and keeps it creamy rather than watery on arrival. Let it come to room temperature before serving for the fullest flavor, and it will taste the way it does at the counter. The cold chain never breaks between our counter and your kitchen, and everything is sealed and labeled before it leaves Manhattan.

What separates our Italian meat and cheese from a supermarket tub is the hand-work and the provenance, not a factory mold. The same standard that earned Caporuscio “#1 Pizza in New York” by New York Magazine runs through the cheese counter too. Order the selection on its own or alongside our full pizza menu for a complete Italian table, shipped in ice to your door and packed to arrive cold whatever the distance. This is Italian cheese treated like the ingredient it is, not a commodity.