Ever since my birthday dinner at Bari a few months ago, a few friends and I have been talking about tasting their entire cheese menu.

For $150 โ€” and a phone call five hours in advance โ€” you can try an ounce of the more than 40 cheeses on Bariโ€™s menu. Yep, thatโ€™s more than 40 ounces of cheese, or about two and a half pounds worth.

My first, and only, piece of advice: Bring friends. But not too many. (Sharing is all well and good, but only to a point.)

The cheese arrived โ€” somewhat disappointingly โ€” on a large tray all at once. I think we had all pictured courses upon courses of cheese, with three or four samples each, being delivered at a time, in a certain order.

To get it all at once was a bit overwhelming.

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