Regional cheese and cream stores Côte d'Opale

"Cheese is an art," we're told. Here, everything is homemade. The Olivier family has been refining cheese from father to son since 1907. In the store, you'll find farmhouse cheeses from all over France. Romain Olivier pugnaciously defends the know-how handed down by his father, Philippe. Here, forgotten cheeses are given a new lease of life. Their cheeses can also be found on the menus of some of the finest restaurants in the area, earning the Fromagerie a national reputation.

In this exceptional cheese factory, you buy regional dairy products made by a master cheese refiner, Wullus Paul Alexandre. He uses raw milk from which he knows the origin, formally rejects productions with chemical colorants, enhancers of any kind, stabilizers of any form and puts forward a natural cellar maturing "in the old way". Creator of the Saint-Omer camembert, he also offers the Clairmarais tome or the maroilles from his abbey, and many other regional flavors.

At the Crèmerie de la Ferme, you will find more than 300 cheeses by the slice. Among them: bergues, maroilles, mont-des-cats or flax gouda (a must try!) for the most local. You can also taste the classics such as Camembert or Gruyère. Lovers of good cheeses will be in heaven! The creamery also offers dairy products and eggs, but also a nice choice of regional specialities and some beers! If you're new to cheese, let the saleswomen guide you through the shop and they'll know how to please your taste buds.

In Vercin, Sylviane and Christophe Henguelle work in the heart of the seven valleys, a beautiful green and hilly region. It is in this green setting, a little away from the village, that you will find their farm of Bois d'Esgranges. The shepherd and the shepherdess welcome you and open their doors to let you discover their production. From the milk of their ewes they carefully make cheese and yoghurt from March to September-October.