Fromagerie du Bas-Montmartre - Paris 18ème — Specialty Store in Clignancourt, Paris
Fromagerie du Bas-Montmartre - Paris 18ème is a cheese counter on Rue Versigny where the staff will let you taste before you commit and vacuum-seal what you buy for the trip home.
A cheese counter in Clignancourt
On Rue Versigny in Clignancourt, this specialty shop sells cheese you can taste before buying, and the staff vacuum-seal a chosen assortment with each cheese labelled for travel. Sandwiches are made fresh daily and go fast at lunchtime. Expect to spend €5–20 on a few items, and note the 12 pm weekday opening.
Verified November 2026 · 2 independent sources
What you find on Rue Versigny
This is an independent cheese shop in Clignancourt, a few steps from the Jules-Joffrin end of the neighbourhood, and the counter is the first thing you meet: cheeses laid out by texture and flavour, with a second counter of charcuterie alongside.
Start with the cheese itself. A Morbier carrying wine and a Tomme worked with coffee grounds are the two finds worth asking for by name, both a step away from the standard range. The staff will hand you samples before you commit, and the selection changes regularly, so what you tasted last time may not be there now.
Sandwiches are made fresh each day and sell briskly around lunchtime; expect a queue if you arrive at midday. Homemade cookies sit near the till as a small extra. Beyond cheese there is wine, charcuterie and other groceries, so a single stop covers a picnic or a goûter.
For anyone travelling home with cheese, say so: the team vacuum-seals the assortment and writes the name of each cheese on the pack, a service they offer without being asked. Prices sit at reasonable levels for the quality, with a few items landing in the €5–20 range.
The one friction is timing. Weekday opening is 12 pm, so a morning cheese run does not work Monday to Friday; Saturday from 10 am and Sunday from 10 am are your early windows. This suits travellers who want to taste before buying and carry cheese home, more than anyone needing a quick pre-noon stop.
What to look for
Sandwiches made fresh daily
Put together each morning and gone quickly at lunchtime; come before midday or expect to wait in the queue.
Vacuum-sealed cheese for travel
Choose an assortment and the team seals it and labels each cheese, offered unprompted when you mention taking it home.
Morbier with wine
A cheese carrying wine, one of the less usual things on the counter when you want something past the standard range.
The pick list
What to bring home
Sandwiches
Made fresh each day, and the lunchtime queue tells you how Paris feels about them.
Vacuum-sealed cheese selection
Pick your assortment and the staff pack it vacuum-sealed with every cheese labelled.
Charcuterie
A second counter alongside the cheese, easy to pick up on the same trip.
Morbier with wine
One of the more unusual things on the counter, for when you want something past the standard range.
Tomme with coffee grounds
A discovery worth trying if you are browsing the wider selection.
Who is this for
This suits travellers who want to taste cheese before buying and carry a labelled, vacuum-sealed selection home in a suitcase. It also works for anyone assembling a picnic or a goûter from one counter, with charcuterie, wine and a sandwich picked up in the same stop. And if you are staying nearby and want a sandwich at lunchtime, the fresh daily ones are the reason to time your walk for midday.
If you want a croissant or a cruffin rather than cheese, Chamboule - Boulangerie on Rue Custine is the bakery to walk to instead. Chamboule - Boulangerie 🥐🧁🥖.
The verdict
It is a neighbourhood cheese counter rather than a vast fromagerie, and its noon weekday opening rules out a morning run, but for tasting before you buy and vacuum-sealed cheese to carry home it does exactly what a traveller needs.
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