Bordeaux / France
Côté Saveurs is a Bordeaux cheesemonger offering cheeses and prepared cheese platters.
Best for Cheese and prepared platters
Cheese of France
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French cheese is organised by terroir and defended by law, with caves to prove it. Camembert Village keeps Marie Harel's legacy in the village that named the cheese. Roquefort-sur-Soulzon ages its blue in caves with Penicillium roqueforti. Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse gathers fifty-six artisans under one Lyon roof. Raw milk is the dividing line here; ask before assuming. A rind announces the age, and room temperature lets the paste answer for itself.
Visit official site ↗Fromagerie Ceneri
Hidden Gem22 Rue Meynadier, Cannes
The Ceneri family have run this cheese house on rue Meynadier for generations, ageing farmhouse cheeses in their own cellars and selling raw-milk selections from across France and the Alps. It is counted among Cannes' serious affineurs, cutting and maturing everything from mountain tommes to washed-rind rounds.
Best for Aged French farmhouse cheese
Visit official site ↗Sigolsheim, Kaysersberg Vignoble
Meyer-Krumb farms six family-owned hectares from Sigolsheim, part of the Kaysersberg Vignoble commune, growing all seven Alsace grape varieties across the Mambourg and Schoenenbourg Grand Cru sites under HVE certification. Visitors taste on a vine-side terrace, the Weingarten, over local charcuterie and cheese boards.
Best for Grand Cru Mambourg and Schoenenbourg tastings
Visit official site ↗3 Cours Anatole France, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Founded by Alexandre Moga, this cheese-and-wine shop on Cours Anatole France sources cheese and charcuterie directly from Vaucluse producers and stocks bottles weighted toward Rhône and southern French appellations. A tasting terrace on site hosts Sunday brunches and private wine-and-cheese pairings run by the shop's own sommelier.
Best for Local cheese, charcuterie and Rhône wine
Visit official site ↗Lyon, Rhône
Fifty-six artisans under one roof in Lyon — cheesemakers, charcutiers, bakers, winemakers, and the heart of the city's cooking.
Best for Artisan food hall, charcuterie, cheeses, and the stomach of Lyon.
Visit official site ↗Marseille / France
Chez Laurette's Marseille shop brings together French-made clothing and accessories, decoration, pantry goods, wine and cheese.
Best for French-made fashion and pantry finds
Visit official site ↗Obernai / France
This Obernai caviste stocks biodynamic, organic and natural wines alongside peated whiskies, Caribbean rums, alcohol-free options and a fine-grocery selection of chocolates, cheeses and charcuterie. From its shop on Rue du Général Leclerc it also runs tastings and masterclasses for the curious.
Best for Wine merchant, caviste, spirits, fine food, Alsace
Visit official site ↗Obernai / France
This Obernai branch of La Cloche à Fromage sells more than 200 cheeses matured in the company's Strasbourg ripening cellars, plus charcuterie, wines and made-to-measure platters. Shoppers can buy in store on Rue Dietrich or order platters online via Click & Collect.
Best for Cheese, fromagerie, affinage, charcuterie, Alsace
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
Paris cheese house founded in 1909 by Henri Androuët, who opened his crémerie on rue d'Amsterdam in 1910 and pioneered retailer-led affinage — buying young cheeses and aging them himself; now led by owner Stéphane Blohorn (since 2005) across 12 locations.
Best for Affineur-selected cheeses and cheese boards.
Henri Androuët began as a traveling cheese peddler for the dairy company Gervais before deciding, in 1909, that Parisians deserved to taste the full range of French regional cheeses rather than the handful commonly sold in the capital. He opened his own crémerie on rue d'Amsterdam the following year, in 1910, and traveled the French countryside himself, seeking out small producers and bringing back relatively young cheeses to mature in his own cellar rather than simply reselling what producers delivered ready-to-eat. That practice — buying cheese young and controlling its aging in-house — made Androuët one of the first true retailer-affineurs in Paris, a distinction that shaped how the shop, and later the wider trade, approached cheese retail. Through the 1920s, as the shop's selection grew past a hundred varieties, its tasting cellar became a regular meeting point for Parisian cheese enthusiasts, and in 1934 Androuët opened a full restaurant built around cheese, drawing a fashionable Paris clientele. Henri's son Pierre, who had originally trained in architecture, took over the business in the 1930s and continued building its reputation; by the 1950s father and son were widely regarded among France's foremost master cheese affineurs. The business left family ownership in 1995, and since 2005 has been led by Stéphane Blohorn, who opened a dedicated 250-square-meter aging facility with five specialized cellars in Levallois in 2017. Androuët today operates twelve locations, including three outside France.
Visit official site ↗Paris
Historic Paris cheesemonger since 1909 — over 200 varieties of French cheese in a beautiful shop. Expert affineurs who know exactly when each cheese is at its peak. The Comté, Roquefort, and Brie de Meaux are transcendent.
Best for French cheeses including Comté, Roquefort, and Brie de Meaux
Paris / Marais / Online
Marais grocery-cafe on Boulevard Beaumarchais founded by Delphine Plisson, opened in 2015 in a former bicycle depot; modeled on Dean & Deluca, with a produce market, butcher, cheese and fish counters, wine cellar and restaurant.
Best for Curated French pantry and gift baskets.
La Maison Plisson is a market-style grocery and cafe on Boulevard Beaumarchais in Paris's Marais district, opened in 2015 by Delphine Plisson, a former fashion executive who had worked with Yves Saint Laurent, Agnes b., and the group behind Maje, Claudie Pierlot and Sandro. Modeled explicitly on American food-hall concepts such as Dean & Deluca, the shop occupies a converted former bicycle depot and combines a produce market, butcher, cheese and dairy counter, fish market and wine cellar with a cafe-restaurant.
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PRINTEMPS
Machi Machi, Taiwan's cheese-foam bubble tea brand, pours matcha lattes and fruit teas from rue Chabanais and its Printemps Haussmann counter in Paris.
Best for Taiwanese cheese-foam bubble tea and gourmet teas
Machi Machi is the Taiwanese bubble tea chain built around Cream Cheese Foam tea — a savory-sweet layer of whipped cheese cream poured over black, oolong or jasmine tea — a format the brand is widely credited with popularizing and that has made it a fixture of Asia's tea scene, with a following that reportedly includes Taiwanese singer Jay Chou. The brand runs two Paris locations: its main shop at 5 rue Chabanais near Pyramides in the 2nd arrondissement, and a counter inside Printemps Haussmann, the Boulevard Haussmann department store's food hall in the 9th. The Printemps menu leans into the house repertoire — oolong tea finished with cream foam, iced jasmine green tea, matcha lattes, and seasonal fruit-and-jelly creations — alongside the classic bubble tea format of tapioca pearls in milk tea. Machi Machi positions itself, in its own words, around taste, comfort and craft rather than novelty alone, and keeps an active French Instagram account documenting new drops under the Machi Machi Paris name. For visitors browsing Printemps' food hall, it is the department store's answer to Taipei's tea-shop culture: a quick, photogenic stop for a cheese-foam tea rather than a sit-down tea room.
Visit official site ↗Paris
A Paris market street. The Rue Mouffetard slopes down from the Panthéon towards the Jardin des Plantes, lined with food shops, cafés, and stalls.
Best for Sunday morning market, food shops, and Hemingway's 'poor man's Montparn
Open city/visitor reference ↗Paris
The 'Jaune' (Yellow Shop) has been a Marais institution since 1946. This Jewish deli sells Yiddish specialties — strudel, babka, cheesecake, smoked fish, and Eastern European prepared foods.
Best for Strudel, babka, cheesecake, smoked fish, and Eastern European prepared foods
3 Rue Basfroi, 75011 Paris
Wine is available to drink on site or take away from late afternoon until night. The chalkboard adds olives, charcuterie, cheese and vegetable plates, making the room work as a bar rather than only a bottle shop.
Best for Independent wines for tasting or takeaway
Visit official site ↗Au P'tiot Frometon
Hidden GemVillers-Bocage (southwest of Caen)
Au P'tiot Frometon is an independent cheese, charcuterie and wine shop in Villers-Bocage, sourcing goat and aged cheeses, cured meats, fine grocery and local wines from regional producers. It offers click-and-collect and made-up dining platters.
Best for Artisan cheese and charcuterie platters
Visit official site ↗Camembert Village
Worth a DetourCamembert, Normandy
The birthplace of Camembert cheese — the village where Marie Harel created the world's most cheese in 1791, with a museum and farm visits.
Best for Camembert cheese, Marie Harel's legacy, and the home of France's most fromage.
Visit official site ↗Cave de Roquefort Société
Worth a DetourRoquefort, Occitanie
Visits to the limestone caves where Roquefort is aged — the fleurines (natural ventilation cracks), the mold, and the heritage of the world's most blue cheese.
Best for Cave tours, limestone fleurines, and the home of Roquefort.
Visit official site ↗Minneapolis / France
France 44 is a three-generation Minneapolis destination for wine, beer, and spirits paired with a full cheese counter, whole-animal butcher, and gourmet grocery on France Avenue South. It sells online, hosts weekly tastings and classes, and offers cheese and wine clubs.
Best for Wine & Spirits, Cheese Shop, Butcher, Deli
Visit official site ↗Fromagerie Conquérant
Hidden GemCaen (rue Guillaume le Conquérant)
This cheesemonger on rue Guillaume le Conquérant has aged and sold farm cheeses in Caen since 2015, alongside Norman and imported varieties, burrata, charcuterie and made-to-order fondues. It has belonged to the Collège Culinaire de France since 2022.
Best for Farm cheeses and fondue
Visit official site ↗Fromagerie de Chambery
Hidden GemChambery
This Chambery cheesemonger specializes in Savoyard mountain cheeses, from Beaufort and Abondance to Tomme de Savoie and Reblochon, cut and matured at the counter. It also assembles raclette and fondue selections and regional charcuterie.
Best for Savoyard mountain cheeses and fondue selections
Visit official site ↗Mont Louis / France / Online
Pascal's cheese cellar in the Vauban ramparts of Mont-Louis ripens around 150 cheeses, from Ossau-Iraty AOP and Pyrenean tommes to Catalan charcuterie and Teruel ham. Everything is sold in the boutique, on nearby Cerdagne markets, or shipped across France and Europe within 48 hours.
Best for Cheese, fromagerie, charcuterie, regional-food
Visit official site ↗Le Mans, Sarthe, France
L'Atelier du Fromage is an independent cheese shop in the Maillets district that owner Géraldine Autret opened in 2021 after turning her personal passion into a trade. The counter carries more than ninety references, including most major French AOP cheeses, and builds custom cheese and charcuterie boards to order.
Best for Curated French AOP cheese selection and custom cheese boards
Visit official site ↗Rue Charles de Gaulle, Gérardmer
A cheese-ager (affineur) of Munster-Géromé since 1967, this Gérardmer shop matures wheels in its own cellars alongside more than 500 regional products. The shelves run to Vosges charcuterie, beers and spirits, with a restaurant a few doors down on Rue Charles de Gaulle.
Best for Munster-Géromé and Vosges produce
Visit official site ↗Xonrupt Longemer / France
La Ferme des Plombes is a working dairy farm above Xonrupt-Longemer where visitors can tour the cheesemaking operation and view the fromagerie through the shop's viewing windows. The farm sells its own cheeses and tomme in its on-site shop and at the Gérardmer market on Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Best for Cheese & Dairy
Visit official site ↗La Fermette Annecy
Hidden GemAnnecy, Haute-Savoie, Haute-Savoie
This Annecy shop specialises in regional Savoyard produce, from mountain cheeses to local delicacies. Regional wines round out the selection.
Best for Savoyard cheese, regional wines, local produce
Visit official site ↗Tretat / France
Open since 2003 near Étretat's town hall, La Rose des Vents stocks 200-plus Norman ciders and Calvados, cheeses like Camembert and Livarot, charcuterie, and cliff-walk picnic hampers, plus embroidered tea towels and cider bowls.
Best for 200-plus Norman ciders and Calvados, cheeses like Camembert and Livarot, charcuterie
La Rose des Vents opened in 2003 at 2 rue Monge, near Étretat's town hall and tourist office, and describes itself as the village's oldest shop dedicated to Norman regional products — a claim borne out by three subsequent expansions, in 2008, 2015 and 2022, as the inventory grew past what the original space could hold. The core of the shop is drink: more than 200 references of cider and Calvados drawn from Normandy's five departments, alongside non-alcoholic apple and pear juices for visitors not looking for alcohol. Cheese counters carry Camembert, Neufchâtel, Livarot and Pont l'Évêque — Normandy's signature cow's-milk cheeses — and the prepared-food side runs from charcuterie terrines and tripe dishes to seafood, including scallops, oysters and lobster bisque. For visitors headed to Étretat's chalk cliffs, the shop assembles weekend picnic hampers from its own stock, alongside embroidered tea towels and traditional cider bowls (bolées) sold as take-home souvenirs. Nearly every category on the shelves is sourced directly from Norman producers rather than a general gourmet-shop mix, which is the throughline across two decades and three expansions: a deliberately regional, not generic, French specialty grocer built around what Normandy itself produces.
Visit official site ↗Avenyn (Vasastan)
Le Comptoir is a fromagerie and bistro pairing farm-produced cheeses with other French delicacies, with counters near Avenyn and in seaside Marstrand. Guests can eat and drink wine on site, then take home a wedge from the shop.
Best for French farmhouse cheese
Visit official site ↗Nancy / France
Les Freres Marchand is a Nancy cheesemonger ageing its own cheeses in the city's cellars and selling them at its Grande Rue shop and Marche Central stalls. It also runs an online fromagerie shipping across France, plus poultry, charcuterie and a cheese restaurant in the old town.
Best for Cheese, fromagerie, charcuterie, food
Visit official site ↗Fontainebleau, France
Anne and Christophe, from a family of cheesemakers, run this affineur at 41 rue des Sablons that has sold cheese in central Fontainebleau since 1986. The counter carries aged cheeses, charcuterie, wines and the local fresh Fontainebleau, with raclette and fondue in winter.
Best for Aged cheeses, the local Fontainebleau and charcuterie
Visit official site ↗Savoie, French Alps
The melted cheese dishes of the Alps — scraping molten raclette over potatoes, or dipping bread into bubbling fondue savoyarde, and the heart of Alpine dining.
Best for Melted raclette, fondue savoyarde, and the essential Alpine dining experience.
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Savoie, French Alps
The creamy mountain cheese of Savoie — AOC-protected, made from the second milking of Abondance cows, the essential ingredient of tartiflette.
Best for Creamy mountain cheese, tartiflette ingredient, and Savoyard tradition.
Visit official site ↗Roquefort, Occitanie
The king of blue cheeses — aged in the natural caves of the Combalou plateau, where Penicillium roqueforti grows in the fissures of the limestone.
Best for Cave-aged blue cheese, Penicillium roqueforti, and the king of French blues.
Visit official site ↗Saint-Nectaire, Auvergne
A volcanic cheese from the Auvergne — washed-rind, cave-aged in the lava-formed cellars of the Monts Dore, with a nutty, earthy flavor.
Best for Volcanic terroir, lava cave aging, and cheese from the Auvergne.
Visit official site ↗Salers, Auvergne
A medieval village in the volcanic hills — one of France's most beautiful villages, with a Renaissance grain market, Salers cattle, and the cheese that bears its name.
Best for Medieval village, Renaissance market, and volcanic hilltop perfection.
Visit official site ↗Bastia / Corsica / Online
Bastia family grocer since 1984 — farm charcuterie, AOP cheeses, maquis honey, canistrelli, and island wines, vacuum-packed and shipped to the continent.
Best for Corsican charcuterie, AOP cheese, honey, and island gift boxes.
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