Regional cheese and cream stores Nantes

Created by Esther and Benjamin, La Laiterie Nantaise opened its doors on the Ile de Nantes in 2021. Delicious and varied products made with milk from an organic farm in Loire-Atlantique (a farm in Bouvron!): fromage frais, yoghurts, mozzarella and burrata, ricotta... in short, enough to delight a large number of gourmets! Cheeses and yoghurts are made on site in a totally artisanal way, with organic, local, quality cow's milk bearing the "Lait de foin" label. Dairy products from Nantes that are well worth discovering!

Mathieu, creamer-cheesemaker, and Nicolas, farmer-cheesemaker at the Bois Joubert farm in the Marais de Brière, opened their store in April 2022 in the Copernic district. In the window of Racines, passers-by can contemplate the range of cheeses maturing in their cellar: Basque ewe's milk tommes, abondance fermier, gouda mayennais, Ronde des Marais, Sort-Palud... Cheese nuggets made from organic raw milk of local breeds, delivered directly from the farms. You can also find Gwell, a Breton dairy speciality, as well as Corsican bruccio, in season. Mathieu and Nicolas pass on their passion and their wise advice for the choice of wines and ciders. There are also some great finds in the grocery store.

Originally from Pornic, the Dagnat cheese dairy has been in business for over 20 years, including 2 years at the Talensac market. The company is also present in La Baule, Pornic and Noirmoutier. Célia, in charge of the sales outlet, and Édouard, the manager, are both cheese ripeners. And they know how to work with cheese. You'll find a fine selection of French cheeses, with all the AOPs and a regional range including Curé nantais and Vendéens. The star homemade speciality? L'Herbillette, a goat's cheese matured in the cheese dairy, washed in Muscadet and lined with herbs. Don't miss the wide range of goat's cheeses and butters. For the holidays, don't hesitate to order your own platter. Dagnat, a leading name in the art of cheese-making!

It is in the middle of the market, near an outside door, that you will find the superb stand of the well-known cheese dairy Pascal Beillevaire. The customers are numerous to admire and to taste the best of the local and national cheese production thanks to a rigorous and constant quality of its good products. This cheese producer and creamer since 34 years in Machecoul, rather top-of-the-range, manufactures butters, creams, white cheeses, yoghurts, milky desserts (chocolate mousse, rice pudding, the famous cremet nantais, the big Swiss...) and gingerbread which made its reputation. Ludovic Condroyer is the manager of the Talensac shop. He and his team treat no less than 100,000 customers per year. Very demanding on the quality of their products, they regularly visit producers from other regions. Here, artisanal farmhouse cheeses take pride of place, as well as local producers: raw milk cheeses, Machecoulais, Pont d'Yeu, Grands Causses, Livarot and many other appellations for all tastes and budgets. You will even find ghee (clarified butter) for cooking, and Roellinger spices that will enhance a plain yoghurt. Every week specialities are prepared on the spot: truffade, aligot, tartiflette of all kinds... croziflette, chevriflette, chtififlette... what a treat!

The name is clear: this is Fromages à Gogo! Cheese aficionados will find in this place a small paradise, in the heart of the Chantenay district. As happiness never comes alone, the store also offers delicatessen, wine and spreads. Enough to prepare good meals! The young cheesemaker Gautier opened the doors of his shop at the end of 2021 and offers a nice selection of farmhouse and artisanal cheeses, difficult to choose... If needed, you can let yourself be helped and tempted by the practical and tasty tasting trays or aperitifs. A beautiful cheese shop that brings a little more flavor to the neighborhood, what a cheese!

In this district, which is undergoing a major transformation from La Prairie au Duc on the Ile de Nantes, the inhabitants are delighted to be able to count on Laiterie Gilbert since November 2019 to stock up on cheese, cold meats, delicatessen and cream products. It is headed by Geoffroy Denaud, a Parisian who left finance to move to Nantes: a new city, a new life, a new store. This cheese enthusiast spent his holidays with farmers in the mountain pastures. It was the values of the company created in 1948 that made him decide to open this franchise: respect for the environment with local products, no preservatives, colourings or added flavours, a fair approach with producers, special attention to transport and packaging to limit the carbon footprint. Here you can discover a wide variety of cheeses such as tomme aux fleurs, beaufort, kaltbach, saint-marcellin and gorgonzola fondant with a spoon, but also goat's milk cheese from the farm of La Tremblaye, coulommiers from the Dongé cheese dairy, Revard soft cheese with truffles or even mont-d'or... As a fan of raclette, you will be glazed with a dozen flavours: smoked, peppery, mustard, blue, bear's garlic, walnut, morbier, truffle, mushroom, goat, Espelette sheep. Compose your raclette platter by mixing cheese and charcuterie. You can also buy potatoes and get a raclette machine. Geoffroy thought of everything, even bottles of wine to accompany your tasting! And many partnerships for your greatest pleasure with the Boutique des Éleveurs, Cavavin, Barapom or Éclats de riz?

Installed on the boulevard Schuman, here is a pretty creamery. This cheese and cream shop reserves beautiful and good surprises, for sure, it delights our papillae! Quantities of cheeses all as appetizing as each other arranged under our amazed eyes: hard paste, soft heart, bloomy rind, ashy ..., there is for all tastes and the choice is Cornelian! Why not a little of this one, a little of that one? Gabin will be able to give you his precious advice. If you are looking for a little wine to accompany your shopping, you will find good bottles, especially from the Loire, but also a delicatessen corner, and cold cuts! Everything you need for a nice aperitif!

This new fromagerie-crèmerie, opening in autumn 2019, is nestled in a tiny boutique in the shape of an illuminated corridor. Here, Amélie shares her passion for cheeses, preferably made from raw, farmhouse milk, which she carefully selects directly from small producers all over France (Savoie, Auvergne, Pyrenees, Normandy, Val du Doubs...). A former journalist, she got the cheese bug from her great-uncle, who was a cheesemaker, and the catalyst for her conversion was interviewing shepherds returning from summer pastures in the Béarn region. The result is delicious, to say the least! You'll find plenty of ideas on how to treat your guests to an aperitif, end a meal or even a raclette evening... We can even prepare pre-cut cheese platters for you! Among the sixty or so cheeses on offer, let yourself be tempted by a Saint-Marcellin or a Saint-Félicien, crunchy Brie or even Gorgonzola by the spoonful! And if you're sweet and savory, try our cherry/chocolate/Espelette chili paste, which goes very well with hard cheeses like Etivaz. Discover also the fine grocery products and the selection of wines to accompany your meals.