Regional cheese and cream stores Bouches-Du-Rhône

This is a very active cooperative with more than a hundred members - cereal growers, market gardeners, breeders - and it also exists in Manosque and Valensole. No intermediaries, ultra-fresh products and flawless traceability at the same price as the producer. Demanding or committed customers can find seasonal fruit and vegetables, dairy and farm products, cold cuts and meats all year round. The approach being also locavore, nothing is produced more than 160 km away. In the fish section, sea bream, sea bass and tuna from La Seyne-sur-Mer are sold vacuum-packed to guarantee the freshness of the product. Practical and well-stocked, the grocery section offers honey, tapenades, olive oils, jams, dried fruits, fruit juices, beers and wines, and organic products. The bread is made by farmer-bakers with their own wheat and small spelt. In short, you can do almost all your shopping at Couleurs Paysannes, and even treat yourself with a bouquet of flowers. Easy to access, the building is well visible from the avenue de La Grande-Bégude, which connects the center of Venelles to the Logissons. The welcome is smiling, the parking is free and every Friday and Saturday, producers come to present their products

It's hard to make a choice as the range of products made here is so wide: fresh, creamy, semi-dry and dry cheeses, fancy cheeses, but also faisselles, white cheeses, whipped cheeses, two-taste pyramids, logs, tommes, "camemberts", grated and shaved goat's milk, that's quite a selection! About fifty goats raised on the 4 hectares of Agnès Gaffet's family farmhouse provide the necessary milk, processed on site. In tune with the times, the goat farmer has created a drive to pick up her order (at the farmhouse or at a market).

A member of the Guilde des Fromagers, Benoît Lemarié selects the finest farmhouse cheeses, over 150 in all. You'll be able to put together a platter of the finest ambassadors of our regions: salers, gaperon with garlic and pepper, top-of-the-range comtés, bleu de Termignon, picodon de l'Ardèche and other brillat-savarin, pélardon, morbier or saint-nectaire. Also Bordier butter, fromage blanc and crème fraîche. For your parties or receptions, the house makes superb platters - just make sure you order a little in advance. We also love the friendly welcome from Benoît's team. And if you're in a hurry, you can order your platters and cheeses online, and collect them from the store or have them delivered.

Direct from the producer to the consumer, here is a good address for sheep cheese lovers. Claude Coste and his sister Bernadette have developed the family business, which was originally focused on lamb breeding. Their flock counts some 150 dairy ewes. In the cheese dairy adjacent to the sheepfold, Bernadette makes and matures her cheeses on a daily basis: fresh cheeses with garlic and fine herbs, creamy cheeses, dry cheeses, ashy cobblestones, bricks, brousse and also a mature tomme. Also smooth and easily digestible yogurts.

Florent Rueda breeds 150 saanen goats, Swiss goats whose mild, slightly sweet milk gives special flavors to the cheeses made and matured on site by his mother, Marie-Paule. These include dry, semi-dry and whole-milk brousse, as well as specialities such as St Rémois, a fresh lactic, and Alpicrème, a flowery crouté. These cheeses are on sale on the premises, and can be found at the finest restaurants in the region, including Château d'Estoublon.

The Chiari family raises, not far from the village, a herd of goats from an alpine breed, the chamoisé, brown goats with a black line on their backs with whose milk they make fresh or matured cheeses. Plain or with garlic, thyme or rosemary, they are delicious! They also have organic Aubrac cows, lambs and pigs raised in the open air whose meat they sell vacuum-packed at the farm every Friday. The animals are fed with organic fodder from the property in winter and graze freely in the summer.

Fresh milk, just out of the cow's udder... No, we are not in Savoie, but in Saint-Rémy, a few kilometres from the centre in the direction of Maillane. At Mélanie Roumanille's farm, coming with her empty bottle to attend the 6pm milking has become a ritual for many Saint-Rémois. Just like in the old days! An opportunity to admire the Tarines (Savoyard cows), but also to leave with cheese, faisselles, yoghurts and ice cream. Moreover, everything is organic! And a big plus for the kindness and welcome of the owners.

Céline, the adorable cheese-maker, has gleaned a rigorous, gourmet selection of farmhouse and raw-milk cheeses from her encounters with producers all over France, and offers expert advice on perfect pairings. A whole range of cheeses and platters to choose from. Raclettes, fondues and delicious yoghurts, custards, cream desserts and more. You'll also find other delicious flavors to savor thanks to its Greek and Italian delicatessens, olive oil, mezze, poutargue at lunchtime or homemade pasta.

Emily is a sparkling young woman who has turned her little store on rue de la République into the temple of cheese. You can find goat's milk cheese, Termignon blue cheese, tomme with blueberry flowers... the choice is quite impressive. In addition, Emily has a gift for presentation: she always adds fresh flowers and dried fruits to embellish the cheeses. She even makes pièces montées! It seems that the English actor Hugh Grant has a habit there, but shhh! In any case, without being icons of the cinema, we really liked it.

Why La Casa di Mina simply because Mina is the Corsican grandmother. Thus one finds there the best Corsican products. On the early side, 100% local products within a 40 km radius. Products from an ecological agriculture. The range of Marius products is very well represented, tapenade, anchovy paste, ratatouille, ristes and regional products. You will obviously enjoy Corsican cheeses and their Provencal cousins. But also pasta from the wheat of the mas de Daudet, fresh eggs, charcuterie from Luberon, regional wines... A farandole of delights.

This delicious grocery store has been enriched for the greatest pleasure of our taste buds with the arrival of a new caterer and a cheese shop. You will find all the cheeses "made in Alpilles" as well as those of other regions. As for the catering, it is a farandole of tastes, a large choice of starters, dishes and desserts: quiches, veal shank, salmon lasagna, moussaka and other dishes just as appetizing. Finally, there is nothing like a Gallo-Roman wine to taste a goat cheese from the Alpilles!

Mélanie and Thibaut's exclusive specialty is a brillat-savarin with pansy flower. You can order your own cheese platters, with superb decoration to boot. By the way, our cheesemongers came second in the national competition for the most beautiful platter! You'll find cheeses from all over France and the region, farmhouse-made and matured in traditional natural cellars, an ancestral savoir-faire. By reservation, you can enjoy a private tasting, accompanied by wine. You'll also find delicious jellies and confits!

Chez Ninou is the story of Olivier, a cheese enthusiast who converted from the world of transport to open this charming cheese shop in the heart of the Saint-Barnabé shopping district. It's a delightful store with a whiff of the terroir, the biquette and the green pastures. Nearly a hundred references in a rather large space that few cheese dairies in Marseille can boast. Expert, smiling advice from the owner. The loyal clientele since 2021 is not mistaken. Scrupulously selected French and foreign cheeses.