We’re on a tasty, delicious mission to share what eating natural yogurt is all about—and we’re starting in San Francisco! Our Cultured Caravan will be making stops by the spoonful all around the Bay Area giving out free yogurt, coupons and recipes. We can’t wait to see you there to try some Tillamook Yogurt!
April 12th is National Grilled Cheese Day, and Tillamook is helping you celebrate!
Tillamook is taking over San Francisco to celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day! Stop by The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen for a FREE grilled cheese sandwich, prepared by gourmet grilled cheese master and Tillamook Kitchen Chef, Heidi Gibson! Stop by The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen at 1 South Park from 5-7 PM for your free sandwich.
Plus, enter to win a year’s supply of cheese! Share your cheesiest grilled cheese moments on Instagram from April 8-12! Use #Cheeseaholic and tag @Tillamook to enter. Click here for official rules.
What a view!
Well it’s that time of the year when the Loaf Love Tour comes to the beautiful state of California. This is our last state on the tour, and our first time being in the Pacific time zone. After being in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, and Utah the last six months, I must admit that it feels good to be this close to Oregon. It was an interesting road trip to get here: I bought $20 worth of snacks (I devoured them all, of course) and all the lanes on the freeway were closed because of construction, which led to hours of sitting in traffic and we arrived to 100+ degree temperatures in Sacramento. Other than that, the trip was uneventful.
Our three month trip through California will bring us to several different cities, including Sacramento, San Francisco, L.A., Orange County, and San Diego. I’m looking forward to San Francisco the most, not just because it’ll be a break in the 100+ heat the Loaf Love Tour has been experience for months now, but mostly because we’ll get a chance to breathe in the salty air of the Pacific Ocean again. It’s not quite the salty cow smell of Tillamook, but it’ll do. I can picture it now: driving the Loafster across the Golden Gate Bridge, my hair blowing in the wind while music plays on the radio (okay, you probably know our Yums don’t have radios, but maybe I can convince another Brand Ambassador to sing for me?). Perfection.
Mountain and Central time zones have been great. I hope you’re ready for us California. Check out where we’ll be on the tour schedule.
As always, stay cheesy!
Dandy Andy
Come show your Loaf Love pride at the San Francisco Zoo on August 25!
We’re making our way through California and soon we’ll be wheeling around the Bay Area! For one day only you’ll be able to see the world’s smallest insect, the tallest giraffe, and Tillamook all in one place! The Loaf Love Tour will be at the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday, August 25. Stop by to see us between 10am and 5pm to enjoy yummy cheese samples, play games, and get Tillamook goodies!
Don’t forget to pick out your outfit early, because the first 100 fans decked-out in Tillamook orange will receive free entry to the zoo! Anyone wearing orange after the first 100 will save $1 off zoo admission. Get ready for a cheesy high five and a hug, because you’ll see me, Loafy, there too!
Our wonderful Loaf Love Tour Brand Ambassadors will be handing out samples of our natural cheeses. Make sure to grab our booklet with Tillamook Cheese coupons and recipes for you and your family.
See you at the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday, August 25!
See where else we’ll be in Northern California on the tour schedule.
The Loaf Love Tour Team - ready to explore East Bay!
As a Loaf Love Tour Brand Ambassador, I always look forward to a “Day of Loaf.” I mean, what’s better than taking a whole day just to cruise the streets of a new city and take photos of memorable sights along the way… all while riding in style in the most adorable little Volkswagens anyone has ever seen?! We chat with pedestrians at stop lights about who we are, and we get to make Tillamook lovers happy by handing out coupons and cute buttons, too! Sometimes I just can’t quite believe these are the requirements of my job – I love it!
The Baby Loaf buses at Jack London Square
This last Monday, we explored the streets in San Francisco’s East Bay! With the overcast weather reminding me of my Oregon roots, off we went! All three of our VW Baby Loaf buseswent around Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, California! We cruised along the Bay in Alameda, went through downtown Oakland, and got plenty of stares as we stopped at Jack London Square for a photo. It always tickles me when I see how amazed onlookers seem when they notice not one, but three little buses made to look like a loaf of cheese! The extra big smiles we get are some of my favorite parts of being on the Loaf Love Tour.
Cruising around Oakland
After a yummy lunch and quick drive through UC Berkeley, we wrapped up another fun Day of Loaf! I’m already anticipating the next one coming up in Sacramento later this month!
See you on the road,
-Noelle, Loaf Love Tour Brand Ambassador
Tillamook partner chefs Heidi Gibson and Nate Pollak of The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen.
What’s a sandwich without cheese? To celebrate two of the all-time tastiest foods – sandwiches and cheese – our Loaf Love Tour has partnered with five notable Bay Area restaurants. Each restaurant is offering their take on specialty melts, sandwiches (and even burgers!) featuring award-winning Tillamook Cheese.
‘Tillamook Sandwich Week’ runs from June 11th – 18th, so grab a map and start plotting out your sandwich crawl around town!
Participating restaurants:
The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen
1 South Park Ave.
Suite 103A
San Francisco, 941070
(415) 243-0107
Tillamook Sandwich Week Special: Tillamook Signature Chef Heidi Gibson has created a Mac n’ Cheese Grilled Cheese with Tillamook Monterey Jack Cheese, pork belly, smoked tomato, caramelized onions, and avocado ($8.00).
Ironside
680 A 2nd St.
San Francisco, CA 941070
(415) 896-1127
Tillamook Sandwich Week Specials: Tillamook Monterey Jack Cheese tops off Ironside’s Northern Bison Burger and Pacific Pastures Grass Fed Beef Burger (market price; $15).
Nickies
466 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 941170
(415) 255-0300
Tillamook Sandwich Week Special: Lower Haight local eatery and neighborhood bar, Nickies, will be featuring a Crispy Chicken Sandwich with a trio of melted Tillamook Cheeses – Tillamook Monterey Jack Cheese, Tillamook Medium Cheddar Cheese, and Tillamook Sharp Cheddar Cheese – served with a side of fresh cut fries or bleu slaw ($9.50).
Globe
290 Pacific Ave.
San Francisco, CA 941110
(415) 391-4132
Tillamook Sandwich Week Special: Chef Joseph has created his all-time favorite Bacon and Tomato Sandwich featuring melted Tillamook Medium Cheddar on grilled sourdough (lunch: $9, dinner: $11).
Brown Sugar Kitchen
2534 Mandela Parkway
Oakland, CA 946070
(510) 839-7685
Tillamook Sandwich Week Special: Owner and Chef Tanya Holland has created a Smoked Vegetable Muffaletta topped with Tillamook Monterey Jack Cheese ($8.50).
Meet the Loaf Love Tour team (and our cute little Baby Loaf buses!) at several participating Tillamook Sandwich Week restaurants on Thursday, June 16! Starting at 1:30pm, we’ll visit The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen, Nickies, and Globe. Later that evening, we’ll head on over to Ironside to try their Bison Burger topped with Tillamook Monterey Jack Cheese (yum!). Come join us – we’d Loaf to meet you!
The Tillamook Cheese Loaf Love Tour has arrived in Northern California!
Last Saturday, our Loaf Love Tour team spent a fun-filled day at the San Francisco Zoo. We met some cheesetastically awesome families while we sampled our award-winning cheeses.
The first 100 Tillamook fans who came to the zoo dressed in their wildest and brightest Tillamook orange received free entry into the zoo. Tickets were gone in a hurry! It was amazing to see all the Tillamook “Loaf Love” and enthusiasm for our cheese.
Lola's grandson made her this "Colby Jack" shirt so she could sport her Loaf Love and get into the zoo for free!
San Francisco Giants fans didn't have a problem finding orange in their closets. What a couple of cuties!
Our mascot Loafy spotted all kinds of exotic animals.
The giraffe is thinking "Can I eat it?"
The Loaf Love Tour will be wheeling around Northern California until August 14. See if they’re headed to a town near you… hope to see you on the road!
Get a free Loaf Love Tour mini bus in San Francisco next Monday!
On Monday, May 16, our Loaf Love Tour rolls into Northern California! We’re kicking things off in NorCal with a “Day of Loaf” in San Francisco. We’ll spend the day exploring the city by driving around in our cute little Baby Loaf buses and taking photos. We’ll also drop by to say “hi” to our favorite San Francisco chef, Heidi Gibson of The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen.
Between 11am – 1pm, the Loaf Love Tour will be hanging out at The AMERICAN and we’ll be giving away free Loaf Love Tour mini buses to Tillamook Cheese fans while we’re there! How do you get your mini bus, you ask? Well, we’re not telling… at least not yet! Tune into our Facebook page and Twitter next Monday morning and we’ll tell you what to do to get your very own mini bus.
Hope to see you at The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen next Monday, May 16!
Just wheying in with my opinion.
That’s whey over my head.
Don’t string me along.
You’re making an asagio of yourself.
Got any gouda ones to add?
Heidi preparing to shoot a recipe video for Tillamook.com
I’ve been hearing about Heidi Gibson for a long time now… Grilled Cheese Invitational ringer with loads of tasty trophies, tech professional who gave it all up to open a restaurant dedicated to grilled cheese. She even has a dog named Tilly that she rescued after finding her wandering the streets! These are the stories that passionate heroes are made of. So it was my sincere pleasure to go behind the scenes on the video recipe shoot Heidi created with Tillamook.
Heidi in the kitchen at The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen
First of all, we had her restaurant, The AMERICAN Grilled Cheese Kitchen, all to ourselves on a Sunday morning. You should have smelled the delicious onions caramelizing, cheese melting, and strata baking. It was amazing. I’ve also never eaten so much grilled cheese in my life (we photographed tons of sandwiches and we HAD to taste everything after all!). YUM.
Our spread of yummy sandwiches - all amazing!
I also loved talking to Heidi in between shoots. I could have talked her ear off, but one thing that really stuck with me was how well she knew each of the food items she used in her sandwiches. Each ingredient in her recipes came from a carefully chosen partner who shares her values around food and sustainable business – from her bread to her meat to her beverages. Here at Tillamook, we feel truly honored to be counted amongst her partners. Thanks, Heidi! We think you’re whey cool!
Heidi's Grilled Cheese Invitational awards
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