Mons Cheesemongers
We select and mature artisanal raw milk cheeses from France, Switzerland and the UK. Available for re
25/10/2024
WE ARE HIRING
As we hit our most exciting time of the year, a couple of opportunities have come up to join our tight knit team.
In the New Year, our lovely East Dulwich shop manager Tom is off to Paris. So, we’re looking for a Cheesemonger to join our retail team full-time.
In Bermondsey, we’re looking for someone to join our growing Wholesale Packing team.
We’re a London Living Wage Employer with staff tastings, producer visits, a generous staff discount and cheese on tap some of the best benefits of these roles.
To apply, and find out more about the vacancies, head to the careers section of our website.
27/09/2024
VACHERIN MONT D’OR RETURNS
Right, we know we posted a few of these this time last year. But, they’re too juicy not to repost.
We’ve been working with Sancey Richard since 2009. However, these delightful photos from the archives are from the Vacherin makes of yesteryear in the late 90s.
They are, de facto, the best Vacherin Mont d’Or producers around and the only private, family-run producer left.
The key to their unrivaled flavour and unctuous texture is the pre-ripening of their milk, and a slower make.
I think the Mons team get more excited for Vacherin’s return than they do Christmas, as should you.
We’ve got them on a special opening weekend discount across our retail sites and online. Bag yours for £15.95.
24/09/2024
If you know, you know. Available on our retail counters Saturday 28.09.
11/09/2024
28/09/24 - MEET THE MAKER - Pitchfork Cheddar
Ben Ticehurst – Head cheese maker Dairy, producers of the award winning Pitchfork Cheddar, will be visiting our East Dulwich shop at 153 Lordship Lane on Saturday 28th September and tasting out samples.
Join us to try some delicious cheddar and learn all about how it’s made from the producers themselves.
05/09/2024
It’s grey, and damp, but Izaac has dutifully checked in over 700kg of Gruyère Suisse AOP for you all to enjoy across the next few weeks.
16/07/2024
Wedding season is in full flow and we’ve already seen some wonderful celebration cakes adorning the tables of our lovely customers.
If you have a late summer celebration planned, it isn’t too late to book in a consultation at one of our retail sites. Nor is it too late to order online.
Does a huge stack of cheese sound like the perfect way to see out your special day? Give us a shout!
30/03/2024
The sun is shining and out Goat’s and Sheep’s Milk Cheeses are looking particularly lovely and spring-like. We’ve got a few new arrivals to boot.
Open as normal across all our retail sites today but we’ll be closed Easter Sunday.
Happy Easter all!
29/03/2024
EASTER OPENING HOURS
We are open as normal across all our retail sites this Friday and Saturday. Our counters are resplendent with cheese ready your Easter feasts and we’ll have Hot Cross Buns from at our East Dulwich site!
We will be closed in East Dulwich and Borough Market on Easter Sunday before returning next week!
06/03/2024
WE ARE HIRING
As we look to grow, and with a a couple of staff heading to exciting pastures new, we are hiring for multiple positions across the business.
- Full Time Retail Cheesemonger
- Part Time Retail Cheesemonger (2 or 3 days)
- QA Manager & Buying Assistant
- Bookkeeper
We offer a London Living Wage starting salary. There is comprehensive training and good opportunities for progression for individuals who can see a long future in the cheese world. Staff tastings, producer visits, and cheese on tap are some benefits of working with us.
Experience isn’t strictly necessary, but a love for food and an eagerness to learn is a must. If interested, head to our website to apply and to find more details on each role.
02/03/2024
Look at it!!
We’ve got one of the best batches of St Nectaire for some weeks on the counter at our East Dulwich site. Podgy, yoghurty and tasting just like peas and asparagus, these wheels are exactly how we like them.
The team have already eaten half a wheel, we’ll have plenty more across our retail sites next week.
17/02/2024
It’s back, and back in a big way. What a stonking batch of Kirkham’s Lancashire we have been enjoying on our counters this weekend.
25/12/2023
The Food Standards Agency have issued a recall on all Kirkhams Lancashire cheese purchased between the 1st of October & today, December 25th.
If you bought any Lancashire from us during this time, we kindly request that you do not consume it or let it come into contact with any other food in your home. Please contact us for a refund or replacement.
Whilst the recall is precautionary, it’s imperative for public health that government guidelines for disposal be followed. See FSA’s post for details on this.
Please ensure you do not eat any Kirkham’s Lancashire purchased through us until the matter is resolved.
We look forward to bringing you good news of the return to form of Graham’s fabulous cheese in the New Year.
Many thanks & a Happy Christmas to you all.
Mons Cheesemongers
24/12/2023
Come one come all! We’ve still got plenty of cheese on our counters at East Dulwich and Borough Market and we’re open till 3pm.
Thank you so much to all those that have shopped with us this week, it has been a blast.
Merry Christmas from Team Mons!
22/12/2023
What a day!
Thank you to all those who popped by one of our retail sites. We’ll see the rest of you tomorrow….
18/12/2023
In order to make sure there is plenty of time to secure your Christmas cheese, we’ll be running extended hours at some of our retail sites this week. We’re expecting Thursday onwards to be particularly busy. So, if you have the time to shop tomorrow or Wednesday, we’d love to see your friendly faces!
Anything you buy from us will easily see you through till Christmas and beyond into the New Year.
Also, a big thank you to all those who have shopped with us so far, our first big wave of cheese deliveries are on their way out to their festive homes.
Happy Christmas-ing
Team Mons x
06/12/2023
WE’RE GIVING AWAY 10 COPIES OF ‘THE CHEESE WHEEL’
Various Mons alumni have gone on to exciting careers elsewhere in the food world: setting up their own cheese shops, leading guided transhumance trips in the Biellese pre-Alps & cooking at some of our favourite restaurants, to name a few. But it’s not often we get to celebrate a former colleague & close friend becoming a published author. That author is Emma Young.
We say former colleague…. Alongside her work as a cheese consultant, Emma also now teaches courses in Cheese Retailing with Mons’ Training facility in France, so she hasn’t strayed far from the fold.
The Cheese Wheel is newly released this year. & Emma's first book is a perfect Christmas gift for the cheese lover in your life.
To celebrate, we're giving away 10 copies of Emma's book to the first 10 individuals to place an order for The Cheese Wheel Selection. Just follow the link in our bio and enter the code 'CHEESEWHEEL4FREE' when purchasing either a Small or Large Cheese Wheel Selection. Make sure you opt for the selection without a book, or you'll end up with two!
24/11/2023
Say hello to Bergkäse!
Introduced to us by our excellent collaborators of all things Swiss - Huguenin Fromages - we are newly enthused by a cheese called Bergkäse.
You may have seen one of this name briefly on our counters earlier this year. We liked it a lot, but this new edition is a different producer & altogether different profile of age & flavour which has knocked our socks off.
Follow the link in our bio to our latest blog post, it details the efforts of the team behind the cheese at Fromagerie de Montagne de Gais.
21/11/2023
Our shelves are filling up! We welcomed over 400kg of Raw Milk Somerset Cheddar onto our shelves today
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Our History
In the 1950s Hubert Mons worked as a delivery driver and trucked food across the whole of France. With the knowledge accrued from such travel and an eye for farms worth stopping off at for lunch, Hubert decided to go into business for himself. In the early 60s he began to source artisanal cheeses from his native region of Auvergne and with his wife, sold them at local markets.
Shortly thereafter, Hubert realised that ‘affinage de camion’ (van maturing) was not viable and having moved over the border from Auvergne to St Haon-le-Chatel on the Cote Roannaise, they constructed their first purpose built maturing room which was insulated by two metres of earth. As success in their maturing rooms blossomed, they went on to occupy a shop in Roanne and called it ‘L’Auvergnat’. As the shop continued to flourish they expanded their maturing rooms and were also able to begin a wholesale operation.
In the 1980s, Hubert's two sons Laurent and Herve joined the family business. Laurent took over the family shop and Herve oversaw the cheese ripening, adding another large maturing room to the premises which was designed to keep slow ripening, cooked recipe mountain cheeses. In 2007, an opportunity to expand into a disused railway tunnel in nearby Ambierle presented itself. Experiments began to test its potential for maturing tommes and other un-cooked, hard cheeses like Salers, Cantal and Laguiole. The results were successful and in 2010 the tunnel was fully converted and put to use.
The British arm of Mons cheeses began business in 2006. We import traditionally made cheeses from France & Switzerland, ripened in the cellars at St Haon le Chatel. From our base in Voyager Business Park, Bermondsey, we store, mature, wholesale and, on Saturdays, retail our cheeses. We also have permanent shops in Lordship Lane, East Dulwich and Borough Market, along with a Saturday pitch at Brockley Food Market.
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Opening Hours
| Tuesday | 10am - 5:30pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 5:30pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 5:30pm |
| Friday | 10am - 5:30pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 5:30pm |
| Sunday | 9am - 4pm |