Paroles de Fromagers — Specialty Store in Le Marais, Paris
Paroles de Fromagers on Rue Saint-Louis en l'Île runs cheese and butter workshops where you churn your own butter and eat it with bread at the end.
Cheese school and fromagerie
Paroles de Fromagers is a fromagerie and cheese school on Rue Saint-Louis en l'Île, where the draw is hands-on: you churn your own butter in the butter and cheese class and eat it with bread and wine at the end. The tasting selection walks you through several regional French cheeses, Comté among them.
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A cheese counter with a classroom behind it
Paroles de Fromagers is an independent fromagerie and cheese school on Rue Saint-Louis en l'Île, on the Île Saint-Louis side of Le Marais.
You churn a batch yourself in the butter and cheese class, then sit down with bread and wine and eat what you made. The mozzarella session goes the other way, starting with the raw materials and running through the whole making process, and you take the finished cheese home.
Tastings are the shorter route in. A tasting selection moves through several distinct regional cheeses. The pairing flight ends the session with several wines matched to the cheeses, a dessert wine poured last. A tour and tasting runs about an hour and a half and comes in around 20 euros.
Classes are hands-on rather than demonstrations, and the guides leading them are knowledgeable and personable.
Sunday is closed, so plan around it. Monday opens only in the afternoon, while Tuesday to Friday split into a morning and an afternoon block and Saturday runs all day.
What to look for
Butter and cheese making class
You churn your own butter and make cheese.
Tasting selection of French cheeses
Several distinct regional cheeses in one sitting, with Comté the one worth hunting down again after the class.
Cheese and wine pairing flight
Several wines matched to the cheeses, finishing on a dessert wine served as a final pour.
The pick list
What to bring home
Tasting selection of French cheeses
Sessions walk guests through several distinct regional cheeses, and visitors single out Comte as the one they want to keep eating after the class.
Cheese and wine pairing flight
The pairing ends the workshop with several wines matched to the cheeses, including a dessert wine served as a final pour.
Freshly made butter from the workshop
In the butter and cheese class participants churn their own batch and eat it with bread at the end of the session.
Mozzarella made in the workshop
The mozzarella session covers the raw materials and the full making process, with the finished cheese taken home by participants.
Who is this for
This suits a traveler who wants to do something with their hands rather than just buy a wedge, and who will build a morning or afternoon around a two-hour butter and cheese class. It also works for anyone staying near the Île Saint-Louis who wants a short, informative tasting as an introduction to French regional cheeses. And it is a good fit for a curious browser who wanders in off Rue Saint-Louis en l'Île and ends up booking a session.
When you want something sweet to carry away rather than a sit-down cheese session, Aux Merveilleux de Fred on Rue du Pont Louis-Philippe makes cramique and meringue pastries behind the window.
The verdict
It is a working fromagerie with a classroom attached rather than a full-day culinary destination, but for a two-hour hands-on butter or mozzarella session at this price it earns its place.
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