Beechers is a Seattle-based cheese company with a large, impressive outpost just a few blocks north of Union Square.  The main feature of the store is a giant, glassed-in cheese making facility (they make their cheese on site) where you can see the whole process.  They offer tastes of their cheese.  It’s pretty good, in a cheddar cheese sort of way.  The store also has a cafeteria type counter with all sorts of cheesy foods including a very good mac and cheese.  Downstairs there’s a full-service restaurant.  The store also sells a wide range of American-only artisanal cheeses.  Though the variety is pretty good, they don’t seem to give these cheeses quite the love  more obsessive cheese stores like Bedford Cheese or Murray’s give their cheeses.