3rd Place at the World Cheese Awards
First place next year……. Ali and I are so please to announce that the Pangbourne Cheese Shop has won 3rd Place in the Cheese Counter of the Year Awards 2016, sponsored by Le Gruyere AOP and judged by The Guild of Fine Foods. This is an amazing result in our first year of owning the […]
Bumble Bee Tastings in Store
Thursday was a hugely significant day for Ali and me as it was the 1st anniversary of us completing on our purchase of the shop. It’s been an amazing year, lots of ups, a fair number of downs but I for one wouldn’t go back and change it at all. I’m so grateful to our […]
Dublin & Irish Cheese
Ali and I have just been over in Dublin for the weekend. We’d offered last summer to take my mum to Dublin and we have finally managed to fulfil our promise, and of course whilst we were there we couldn’t resist exploring some of Ireland’s cheeses. We already stock a few Irish cheeses in the […]
Royal Bassett Blue Disappears in Seconds!
It’s been another manically busy week – not just on the shop front but at home too 🙂 This week in the shop has been all about decor… Having got new shelving installed a month ago as well as new awnings and the outside smartened up, we realised that the internal decoration needed doing. So […]
Farm Shop & Deli Awards Votes Needed
We’ve had another brilliantly busy week in the shop although it’s always a bit scary at this time of year because we have to order in our Christmas gift stock. I find it very difficult to think what sort of things our customers will want to buy – I’m best left behind the cheese counter […]
Somerset Cheeses
I’ve been down to Somerset this week to pick up cheeses. We have 4 cheesemakers who I visit every 6 weeks or so: Montgomery Cheddar, Batch Farm, Westcombe Dairy and White Lake Cheese. As you’d expect from Somerset the majority of the cheeses are cheddars but there are some other gems thrown in! Jamie Montgomery […]
Wallingford Food Festival
Firstly I must say a great big happy birthday to Jo who works with us on a Friday & Saturday ? This weekend saw Ali and I venture out to our first food festival. It was a bit of a step into the unknown and we learnt a lot on Saturday which meant that Sunday […]
Leeds Cheese
Ali and I spent Friday travelling up to Leeds to buy a car transporter trailer… Not got much to do with cheese you might think but actually it’s a key piece of kit, the use of which will all become clear next week! Having allowed ourselves plenty of time to conquer the M1 roadworks we […]
The Running Cheesemonger’s Blog
Hi and welcome to my blog! My name is Jen and I’m the running cheesemonger! My wife, Ali, and I took over the Pangbourne Cheese Shop in October 2015. Neither of us had any retail experience, let alone cheese knowledge, and so it was a bit of a leap into the unknown! Ali is a […]
