Dominick DiBartolomeo is a Los Angeles food personality, entrepreneur and owner of The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, one of the oldest and most iconic cheese stores in the United States, founded in 1967. 

Dom is a native New Yorker with a big personality and an even bigger appreciation for great Italian food passed down through generations of family recipes. After graduating from USC in the late 90s, his path to success wasn't a totally smooth one, he took a job as an assistant with a large LA public relations agency (a job he admittedly was not cut out for) while also working in the butcher department of Bristol Farms on weekends for minimum wage. Dom eventually landed his first real food industry job at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, where he traveled to and from by bus, lacking the money for a car. 

Over the next 20 years working at The Cheese Store, Dom became one of the city's foremost authorities on cheese. It's also where he met and proposed to his wife and launched Domenico's Foods, which started with the sale of his sun-dried tomatoes, based on a family recipe handed down for generations. 

In 2022, Dom purchased The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, and the following year led its move from the original Beverly Drive location to a 5,000-square-foot space on Santa Monica Boulevard, three times the size of the original store. 

Today, as the country's leading importer of hard-to-find foods and ingredients, Dom infuses his passion and expertise into every aspect of his culinary ventures. It's this same love of food that he shares with the Los Angeles community, both with his customers at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills and his vast network of top chefs who rely on Dom for his access to exclusively imported, super-premium foods and ingredients in addition to his own pastas, sauces and fresh-made products sold under his Domenico's Foods brand. While running the shop, which offers over 800 cheeses from all over the world, Dom also frequently visits Europe to curate rare food items not widely available in the United States, and maintains relationships with some of the top food purveyors, restaurants and chefs worldwide. 

With his dedication to excellence and incomparable enthusiasm, Dom continues to leave an indelible mark on the culinary landscape of Los Angeles and beyond. He's got big things in store as The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills and Domenico's Foods grow in exciting new ways.