Cartmel Cheeses

Cheese, cheese and more cheese! Every kind of cheese imaginable is available here in this wonderful temperature controlled shop in a beautiful village.
In what looks like a newly built court yard with a bakery and a brewery this cheese shop really brings a modern touch to the village of Cartmel. We only found out about this shop after paying in the carpark and getting a little ticket from the machine that says see the noticeboard for this months offers with this voucher. Where’s the noticeboard? Nowhere, but there is a man in the little ice cream hut in the car park who knows what the offers are. £1 off a £10 shop in the cheese shop. WHAT CHEESE SHOP? The hunt is on… Found it… and it’s amazing! I think the best thing about this shop (apart from it bring 14degree inside and a million degrees outside) are the little hand written tags on all the cheeses saying who made them — the actual name of the person not just the farm, where it is made, the type of cheese and what kind of rennet, so easy for a veggie to pick from.
The man who served us, Harry, was very knowledgeable about all the cheeses and we listened to him serving other customers while we decided what to buy. There were many other customers! A lovely little busy shop. We eventually decided on the most local Cheese made 2 miles away called Saint John (a smelly cheese similar to stinking bishop), the best goats cheese i have ever tasted called Prospect, a Red Leicester and a smelly blue. We ate them all with a load of fresh bread from the bakehouse next door…