Clément Brossault did a Tour de France of fromage on his bicycle to meet and build relationships with artisanal cheese producers before he opened his beautiful shop near Goncourt.
This fromagerie is in the covered Marché Beauvau, adjacent to the Marché Aligre.
This fromagerie is part of a stretch of food shops on rue de Bretagne, and just outside the Marché des Enfants Rouges.
Pascal Beillevaire is not just a shop, but a producer of cheeses, plus excellent butters and other dairy treats.
“All the cheeses of France,” boasts the website of this shop. Not quite, but a huge variety all the same.
This cheese shop has an tasting room upstairs for light meals based either on cheese, or the silky house-made tofu. Madame Hisada, a master of French cheeses, is Japanese.
Mistress of cheese Marie Quatrehomme received the M.O.F. designation — Meilleur Ouvrier de France — in 2000.
One of the most elegant cheese shops in Paris, Marie-Anne Cantin also offers cheese tasting classes.
This small fromager and affineur can sometimes get hidden by the all the hustle and bustle of market life just outside, but duck in. The quality is high, the service is friendly (and bilingual), and they will happily sous-vide (vacuum seal) your cheese for travel. Notable offerings include a wide selection of foreign cheeses (quite rare in Paris), goat milk yogurts, and a good variety of butters.
You’re never far from fromage in Paris. At the links below you’ll find practical information for cheese shops in every neighborhood.