27 stores · curated ORBIS register
British farmhouse cheese is sold from counters with cellars behind them; the cellar is the point, since ripeness is decided there rather than at the till. IJ Mellis Cheesemonger cuts farmhouse Scottish and continental cheese in Edinburgh. Neal's Yard Dairy champions British cheese and Montgomery's Cheddar as a specialist cheesemonger. Paxton & Whitfield traces its counter to a cheese stall Stephen Cullum set up at Clare Market in 1742.
Walcot Street, Bath
This Walcot Street cheesemonger matures and sells British and Continental artisan cheeses. Its cafe and counters also carry the company's own crackers, chutneys and provisions.
Best for Artisan British cheese, crackers and provisions
City Centre (College Street), Belfast
Trading in Belfast since 1897, Sawers is a delicatessen and fine-food emporium stocking local cheeses, cured meats and seafood. Its shelves lean heavily on Irish artisan produce and hampers.
Best for Irish artisan deli produce and hampers
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
I.J. Mellis, Edinburgh's artisan cheesemonger, selling farmhouse Scottish and continental cheese from its own shops alongside cakes, selections and subscriptions.
Best for Farmhouse Scottish and continental cheese
Edinburgh
Smith & Gertrude is a wine bar and bottle shop, offering natural wines, small plates, cheese and charcuterie in the West End. At 29 William Street, Edinburgh, the range centers on natural wines, cheese, and charcuterie in the West End.
Best for Natural wines, cheese, and charcuterie in the West End
Magdalen Road, St Leonard's, Exeter
A neighbourhood cheesemonger at 71 Magdalen Road selling cut-to-order cheese alongside bread, wine and accompaniments. It keeps regular weekday hours plus Saturday and Sunday trading for the St Leonard's community.
Best for Cut-to-order cheese with bread and wine
Market Place, Henley-on-Thames
Gabriel Machin has traded as a butcher and fishmonger on Market Place since 1910, selling beef, lamb, game and poultry. The shop also stocks harder-to-find items such as smoked eel, samphire and cheese.
Best for Aged meat, game and fresh fish
Bermondsey, London
Founded in 2008 by William Oglethorpe, who trained in dairy farming in the Swiss Jura, Kappacasein began by turning surplus bread and cheese from Borough Market into toasted sandwiches before starting to make its own raw-milk, Alpine-style cheese around 2014. Billed as London's last cheesemakers, the dairy still operates near Bermondsey, selling its cheese toastie and raclette alongside its own cultured cheeses.
Best for Cheese toasties and raw-milk Alpine cheese
2–6 Moxon Street, Marylebone, London
Marylebone's cheese room on Moxon Street - you walk in among the wheels, and they are matured in London rather than shipped straight through.
Best for The cheese room experience
London / The City
Victorian covered market in the City — wrought iron, painted roof, cheese shops, wine bars, and the Harry Potter filming location that locals still love.
Best for Victorian ironwork, cheese shops, wine bars, Harry Potter.
Leadenhall Market occupies a site used for trade since the fourteenth century, with an earlier connection to the forum of Roman London. The present covered market is defined by Victorian arches, giving the City of London a retail space whose architecture is part of the experience. Its tenant mix includes independent boutiques and cafes. Wine bars and restaurants add further uses without one dominant department store. The market also runs events and installations, so the public space functions beyond ordinary shopfronts. These facts make Leadenhall different from a modern enclosed mall. Its scale is read through passages and ironwork, with individual businesses, while the historic structure remains visible around them. The first-party account places eating and drinking alongside shopping, with offices also woven through the complex. Leadenhall is a working market inside a historic City setting, not a preserved monument with token retail. Its long trading history, Victorian fabric and mixed independent tenancy give visitors more than a film-location backdrop.
London / Covent Garden / Bermondsey
British specialist cheesemonger known for Montgomery’s Cheddar, Colston Bassett Stilton and other farmhouse cheeses, with shops in Borough Market and Covent Garden and close relationships with producers.
Best for British cheese, Montgomery's Cheddar, cheesemonger.
Jermyn Street, London
Tracing back to a cheese stall Stephen Cullum set up at Clare Market in 1742, the business took its name after Harry Paxton and Charles Whitfield joined the Cullum family firm and has sold cheese from 93 Jermyn Street ever since. It has held Royal Warrants continuously since 1850, beginning under Queen Victoria and currently under King Charles III.
Best for British and European artisan cheese
Tal-y-Cafn, Conwy Valley
A farm shop, delicatessen and restaurant near Bodnant Garden in the Conwy Valley, Bodnant Welsh Food gathers Welsh cheeses, cured meats, baking and pantry goods alongside a wine cellar and on-site dining. The business runs cookery and food experiences on the same estate where much of its produce is sourced.
Best for Welsh cheese, cured meats and pantry produce
Dargate, near Canterbury, Kent
Cheesemakers of Canterbury produce farmhouse cheeses in Kent, including the cloth-bound Ashmore and Kelly's Canterbury Goat, in both raw-milk and pasteurised styles. Their range is made with locally sourced milk and sold at The Goods Shed and from the dairy.
Best for Kentish farmhouse cheese
Fore Street, Fowey
A butcher and delicatessen trading since 1974, selling grass-fed beef from the family's own Red Ruby and Dexter herds at Kilhallon along with award-winning sausages, bacon and hog's pudding. The deli counter carries dozens of cheeses in summer plus chutneys, biscuits and crackers.
Best for Cornish meat and cheese
Sparkenhoe Farm, Upton (Leicestershire/Warwickshire border, near Hinckley)
David and Jo Clarke revived farmhouse Red Leicester at Sparkenhoe Farm in 2005, 49 years after the last local maker had stopped, on land that had made the cheese from 1745 to 1875. The cloth-bound Sparkenhoe wheels are still made from the farm's own Holstein-Friesian herd, aged six to seven months, with a Vintage held back for eighteen.
Best for Traditional cloth-bound Red Leicester cheese
Market Place (The Corn Hall), Cirencester
Chef Bob Parkinson runs this open-kitchen brasserie and deli counter in the Corn Hall on Market Place, cooking Mediterranean-leaning plates from produce sold a few steps away. The shelves carry house dressings, oils and charcuterie alongside cheeses, fresh pasta and pastries baked on the premises.
Best for Deli provisions and all-day brasserie dining
St Ives / United Kingdom
Milieu Studios is a contemporary art gallery and online store founded by painter Caroline Robinson in 2023, showing seasonal exhibitions of UK-based artists from its St Ives storefront. Current pieces for sale range from Eska Marsh's framed prints to Nerys Cheesebrough's ceramic vessels, all purchasable online or in the gallery.
Best for Art Gallery, Contemporary Art, Ceramics
Mousehole / United Kingdom
At the head of Mousehole harbour, the Deli & Kitchen runs an all-day deli shop selling Cornish pasties, artisan bread, cheese, milk, local wines and spirits and Cornish gifts alongside its restaurant. Its shelves lean hard on the county's own producers, from the day's catch to nearby farms.
Best for Deli, food shop, Cornish produce, wines & spirits
Chandos Road, Redland
Papadeli is an award-winning independent deli stocked with artisan cheeses, olive oils and chef-made meals from its own kitchen and bakery. It also runs a cookery school and caters weddings, feasts and events.
Best for Artisan cheese and chef-made food
Penylan, Cardiff
This neighbourhood deli and grocer stocks Welsh and regional cheeses, charcuterie, fresh bread, wine and store-cupboard staples, with a café counter for coffee and seasonal plates. Much of the range is sourced from small local producers.
Best for Award-winning Cardiff corner deli built around Welsh producers and low food-mile sourcing
Penylan Pantry was opened in December 2013 by friends Melissa Boothman and Jolene, who set out to build a Cardiff shop that could showcase strong produce from Wales and the rest of Britain rather than stock a generic grocery range. Their stated ethos centers on keeping food miles low, buying from local producers to support the local economy, and running the shop toward a 95 percent recyclable-waste target. That approach has been recognized locally: the pantry has won a Cardiff Life award for Best Cafe and been runner-up three years running in the Observer Food Awards Wales, across the Best Ethical Retailer, Best Cheap Eats and Best Independent Retailer categories. The shop sells Welsh and regional cheeses, charcuterie, fresh bread, wine and store-cupboard staples from its Kimberley Road corner site, with a cafe counter serving coffee and seasonal plates, and builds custom hampers from the same local range for gifting. More than a decade after opening, it functions as both a neighbourhood grocer for Penylan residents and a small showcase for Welsh food producers who might not otherwise have a Cardiff shopfront, run to the same two-founder, sustainability-first model it started with.
All Saints Passage
The Cambridge Cheese Company sells British and Continental farmhouse cheeses from a small shop on All Saints Passage, cutting wedges to order beside charcuterie, chutneys and biscuits. Staff wrap the cheeses fresh and assemble hampers for local customers.
Best for Farmhouse cheeses and charcuterie
Lincoln, England
The Cheese Society is an independent cheese shop based in Lincoln, selling curated hampers, cheese boards and knives alongside a rotating monthly subscription of five hand-picked cheeses. The shop ships nationally but is rooted in Lincoln, offering free delivery on larger orders.
Best for Curated cheese boxes and monthly cheese subscriptions
High Street, Burford
A specialist cheesemonger stocking British and continental cheeses with a strong showing of Cotswold and West Country makers, alongside chutneys, biscuits and charcuterie. The Burford shop is one of three small branches the company runs across the region.
Best for British and Cotswold cheeses
Station Road West, Canterbury
The Goods Shed is a Victorian former railway goods building beside Canterbury West station, converted in 2002 into a permanent farmers' market and food hall. Under its timber roof sit a butcher, what the shed calls the city's only independent fishmonger, a greengrocer, bakery and cheese counters, with a restaurant above cooking from the stalls below.
Best for Local produce and market dining
Upton, near Burford
A Cotswold smokehouse near Burford curing salmon, trout, poultry, game and cheese over oak. Its farm shop and cafe sell the full smoked range alongside local produce, and it supplies restaurants and delis across the region.
Best for Oak-smoked fish, game and cheese
Royal Arcade, Cardiff
Wally's Delicatessen occupies a Royal Arcade address in Cardiff, with a food selection that reaches beyond Welsh products. Continental cheeses and charcuterie sit within a wider range of pantry ingredients and drinks. Shoppers can also browse hampers and gifts through its online catalogue, which groups products by type and regional origin.
Best for Continental cheeses, charcuterie and international pantry ingredients
Wally's traces its origin to Ignatz Salamon, a Polish-born shopkeeper who fled Nazi persecution — first in Poland, then from a Vienna ghetto — and reached Britain in 1939 after enlisting in the British Army and arranging for his wife and three children to follow. Ignatz ran a general store in Cardiff until his death in 1963, when his sons Wally (Walter) and Otto took over; Wally later set up a dedicated delicatessen under his own name in the city's Victorian Royal Arcade, where the current shop has traded since 1981. It is now run by Steven Salamon, Ignatz's grandson, who has described heritage as central to the business while keeping an eye on current food trends. The shop stocks continental cheeses, cured meats and preserves alongside goods sourced from far beyond Europe — Polish sausages, Canadian hot sauce, Greek honey, South African chutney — reflecting the family's own history of displacement and resettlement. Upstairs, a Viennese-style Kaffeehaus serves cakes and espresso as a direct nod to the Salamons' Central European roots. The business has been featured in trade press as one of Britain's best delis, credited for both the depth of its stock and for staying a genuine family operation across three generations in the same arcade.
Windsor / United Kingdom
Windsor Farm Shop, founded by Prince Philip in 2001, sells locally sourced meat, cheese, bread and gifts from converted Victorian potting sheds on the Windsor Estate. The shop's own butchery and delicatessen supply produce from Windsor Farms alongside a seasonal Christmas shop.
Best for Locally sourced meat, cheese
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