Featuring Local Artisan Food and Wine

Dedicated to showcasing local artisan foods and wine, now featuring over 30 Ohio wineries. Ohio specialty foods from more than 200 Ohio-based companies. Includes a wine bar where you can sample boutique Ohio wines, an interesting array of Ohio holiday gift baskets and a cheeseballing station where you can make your own cheeseballs and sample mini Heini's cheeseballs.

Heini's Gourmet Market highlights:

- A Food-Network-quality demo kitchen, constructed by Schlabach's of New Bedford, which serves as the market's epicenter for daily demos and tastings

- "Cheeseballing," an opportunity to create customized cheeseballs using fresh ingredients and herbs

- A regular, free "Thursday Evening Culinary Experience" from 6-8 p.m.

- Free gourmet coffee samples from Berardi's Coffee Roasters in Cleveland

- Buckeye Wine Gallery and wine bar featuring some of the finest Amish Country and Ohio wines

- Gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches from the L&L Bistro featuring such unique sandwiches as the Jam & Swiss, using Heini's most popular Lacey Baby Swiss cheese and Cooper's Mill strawberry jam; condiment choices for other sandwiches include unique Ohio sauces and mustards.

- And more than 800 gourmet Ohio specialty foods from more than 200 Ohio companies, many small to medium size businesses. Visitors will discover unique Ohio products such as Hungarian noodles, flavorful gourmet sauces, jams, chocolates, chutneys, mustards and mixes, and of course Heini's artisan cheeses.

Family-owned and operated Heini's Cheese is one of the oldest artisan cheese makers in the U.S. and one of the country's most successful wholesale manufacturers serving clients throughout North America. The business has been in operation since the late 1800s and in the Dauwalder family since 1935.