Regional cheese and cream stores Languedoc Roussillon

Every time we visit, Au Bon Groin surprises us. Anne-Lise and Alexis have managed to evolve the concept from a beautiful butcher's shop to a well-stocked raw-milk cheese department, and now to a local produce area full of surprises. The store is superb, with its wide openings and trendy decor. A real pleasure for the eyes and the taste buds, with superb meats from small-scale breeders and charcuterie prepared on site, guaranteed GMO and additive-free. And for aperitif platters, just ask!

It's one of the most courted stalls in the halls, and for good reason. Over the last 30 years, the Ribière family has forged a fine reputation among gourmets in Nîmes and its surroundings. Today, Magaly holds the torch of this family lineage. A know-how and an irreproachable rigour in the methods of preparation which is not without underlining the quality of the products put on sale. Le Petit Futé has had a real crush, or greed, for Le Gardian, a fresh cheese deliciously spicy and flavoured with herbs. Let your taste buds decide!

In the pedestrian Rue de la Cloche d'Or, behind a narrow storefront, you'll find a cheese "palace" offering no fewer than 120 different varieties. All come directly from small farmers throughout France, and you'll also find Iberian and British cheeses (cheddars, shiltons...), which deserve their place even in the land of cheese. You can enjoy them (to take away), in copious combinations of cheese platters (5 to choose from) + charcuterie from Aveyron or Iberia.

Guilhem Raynaud, an epicurean at heart, has set up his cheese corner a stone's throw from Place de la République. Keen to make the best-aged cheeses accessible to all, he offers advice on his products with friendliness and professionalism. His stall is a real place dedicated to local production and short circuits, and he's looking ahead to extending his range to include tableware items that will showcase his creamery products. To round off your meal in style, there's nothing like one of his platters...

Located in Narbonne's famous halles, Le Haloir showcases the finest cheeses from the region and beyond! Do you prefer cow's milk? goat's milk? sheep's milk? Here, there's something for every taste. Goupil has a soft spot for fresh goat's cheese and truffled Brie... Fabienne and Bernard Nabonne also offer quince paste, butter, Italian cheeses, homemade chantilly, fromage blanc by the ladle, and superb aperitif platters to order. A very popular address for cheese lovers!

This pretty little Palavasian address, part cheese shop, part crèmerie and part charcuterie, delights both locals and holidaymakers in search of good local produce. On the stalls, you'll find cheeses from the area and beyond, made by producers and maturers according to the season, as well as dry sausage, chorizo, chiffonnade, brousse, spit-roasted cake... High-quality products, carefully selected, to enhance aperitifs and end meals.

Meat and cheese selected from the same breeders in the region for more than thirty years, homemade pork specialties and a wide range of prepared dishes: this is the winning and authentic recipe of the Martin butcher shop. Chantal, Gilbert Martin and their son work as closely as possible to tradition. They cut up the animals and transform them to give them the best: sausage in oil, ham, fricandeau, smoked duck breast, meat... Open: a cheese corner with small local goats. Every day, an appetizing delicatessen section, including the gratin, with potatoes, chestnuts and fricandeau, a must.

A family affair with René Bouet, grandfather and passionate shepherd: his parents were already making the cheese that has become the company's signature, Trident, a fromage frais with a laurel leaf. Louis and his partner Salomé, the ^6th generation, have now joined their parents at the head of the cheese dairy. Eager to bring a fresh impetus to the business, in November 2020 they opened a resplendent, modern boutique next to the production workshop. Several ewe's milk specialties are prepared on site. Discover the Tomme de Camargue!

Christine, originally from Normandy, has immersed herself in the world of cheeses, and naturally the products of her native region occupy the first places on her stall, such as the ladled raw milk ripened cheeses like the ladled raw milk Camembert. She presents a beautiful range of pressed cheeses, and a wide choice of goat's cheeses from the region coming directly from the producer. Smiling, giving advice and inexhaustible information on the origin of her cheeses, Christine makes gourmets eager for tasty discoveries taste her products.

Tiphaine offers you her products in her beautiful boutique in the heart of Narbonne. This Savoyard, epicurean and cheese lover meets the producers before listing them. Whether you prefer cow's or goat's milk, you'll be delighted by organic farmhouse Saint-Nectaire, farmhouse Ossau Iraty or Ariège goat's milk tomme. Visit the store or order by phone from the website, and she'll deliver your cheese platter, raclette or grocery products such as wine, beer or jam, wherever you are in the Narbonnais region.

From the Jura to the Pyrenees, when the mountains meet, a love story is born. Romain, grandson of Marcel Petit, creator of the legendary cheese dairy of the same name in the upper Doubs, and Rosa, a Catalan from the Cerdane, open the doors of an unusual creamery which, while favouring local cheeses, does not forget to give pride of place to the flavours of the Jura. High quality products, mainly PDO, from the Petite family's own cellar or from the great creameries of France, they take care of your events and prepare beautiful platters.

The discreet store doesn't attract much attention, but we immediately knew it was a good address! The stars here are charcuterie and Lacaune cheeses, accompanied by delicious prepared dishes such as stuffed mini peppers, homemade tapenade and ratatouille. There are also hams, honey-melted ribs and free-range chickens with tender flesh and crispy skin, plus a fine selection of wines. For added convenience, delicious sandwiches are available to enjoy on the terrace or on the beach.

Nadine and Thomas are settled at the end of the world, in one of these villages, which are pampered for their quality of life and their tranquillity. A short half hour from Prades on a winding road to finally discover the sheepfold and the 65 goats that roam freely in front of Mount Coronat in the heart of the Catalan Pyrenees Natural Park. In Tome and lactic cheeses at different stages of maturation, from fresh to dry, you will be conquered by the quality of the products and the welcome of the goatherds. And then, it is so beautiful in the area... we want to stay there.

This is the best cheese factory in the Halles, in Nîmes. Here you can find a rigorous selection among the Land of France. Especially during the year-end celebrations, Claude offers a few pearls, such as the Brie of Melun or a small châblis, with fine cheese in white wine. The offer is impeccable and the two friendly bosses are ready to make a snack and a few promotions to make a cheese discover. Every Sunday, a cheese is in tasting in front of shopping and after a few visits, Nadine identifies your tastes and knows how to advise you in a foolproof way!

One name, 3 stores: on Place de la République, you'll find charcuterie, poultry and ready-made meals. 100 meters further on, in Rue Paratilla, you'll find the cheese shop, and just around the corner, the Italian delicatessen. For 35 years, Hélène has not only delighted you with her fine products, she also brightens our day with her inimitable smile. She's a lively, dynamic woman who listens to her customers and is supported by a highly competent team. Le Petit Futé met and fell in love with Circé la Magicienne! Gourmets, gastronomes and epicureans, here's your address!

One of the best cheese dairies in Nîmes! Claude and Nadine have focused on diversity, originality and quality. You'll find a rigorous selection from the terroirs of our regions (Gard, Aveyron, Lozère). The house specialty? Untraceable cheeses such as old Comté, Salers and other foreign cheeses. What's more, the prices are attractive and the owners very friendly. They have a stand at local markets from Thursday to Sunday.

You can buy our raw-milk ewe's milk tomme directly from the cheese dairy, just a few hundred meters from the village square. At the back of the building, you'll be greeted with a big smile and sold this cheese, made and matured on site, after you've tasted it. Bronze medal winner at the Sud de France cheese competition, it's fruity, long on the palate and deserves a glass of red to accompany it, but you have to drive... It can be found in supermarkets along the A75.

The old-established cheese factory Bousquet, in the covered markets of Carcassonne, is also present in the beautiful grocery in "Halles Gourmandes" located in zone industrielle la Bouriette. If you are a lover of cheese cream, you have the right address. The shop offers more than 80 varieties that vary according to the seasons, some AOCs, refined ones, "cows", "sheeps", such as the excellent Broucaou de Ariège which is a subtle blend of goat and sheep and the Aude "goat". For your meals, cheese can be arranged on a slate or in a giant box of Camembert, a pleasant effect is guarranteed! The shop also offers an interesting selection of gourmet produces, spices, duly selected vintages, craft pasta, spices... In addition to all these good things, guests appreciate the good mood of Nicolas and his useful advices. An address that deserves to be a "favourite"!

Since its beginnings in 1924, the Benoît Chapert company has been drinking cow's milk on the green pastures of the Margeride, to make tasty, top-of-the-range cheeses: Aubrac, fresh Tome Aligot, Grandma's Tome and the famous Bleu d'Aumont. Home-made products that have amply contributed to the reputation of this Lozerian cheese dairy, which also offers local products and a particularly appreciated butter on its shelves.

This cooperative which stretches between the north of Lozère and Cantal provides dairy product lovers with a quality farm butter and several types of cheese: a raw milk tomme, a small shepherd's cheese (Le Berger de Lozère) and small blue cheeses made from cow's milk (la Fourmette Douce Bleue) or sheep's milk. So many specialties that deserve to be tasted, especially since they are often rewarded in agricultural competitions.