Worth the Wait - Fresh Mozza at Caputo's Elmwood Park

Maybe the first few times I told it to my family, it was funny:

The mozzarella was so fresh it was not even ready.

I recently learned--perhaps I'm slow on this--that there's fresh mozzarella and then there's fresh mozzarella. Really, what there is, there's white balls that look like fresh mozzarella, that actually can taste pretty good, and then there's tiny knotted white things that's really fresh mozzarella. That is, hand made fresh mozzarella. Both the Caputo brothers, the store on Harlem in Elmwood Park and the store on 15th Street in Melrose Park have taken to making mozzarella by hand. The taste and texture are extraordinarily different. Of course when you are getting the mozzarella as they make it, as I got last week at the Elmwood Park Caputo's, it's that much better.

Really, something to check out.

I always thought that the Caputo's on 15th was no relation to the grocery store titans.

AngrySarah wrote:I always thought that the Caputo's on 15th was no relation to the grocery store titans.

Same family (brothers), different owners. I think Angelo owns the grocery store on Harlem, and Pasquale owns Caputo Cheese Market on 15th.

The Joe Caputo & Sons out in the further-out-suburbs are yet another brother.

Caputo Cheese Market once upon a time was making fresh mozzarella in the store on the weekends. It sounds like they've started again. Great news!