Fynboshoek Cheese
Area location:
Western Cape - Garden Route - Plettenberg Bay
Address / how to get there:
Across from the Tsitsikama Lodge, off the N2 (Forest Ferns exit)
Open for...:
lunch
Contact:
042 280 3879
Published:
18 Feb 09
Service:
charming and personal service from the owners
Winelist:
small SA selection; many beers; several by-the-glass wine options; BYO at no charge
Other features...:
Booking, Child friendly, Smoking Permitted.
Avg Price:
R80 - R100
Food:
other
Of the Garden Route’s many treats, this is the one that makes cheese fanatics shiver with pleasure. Alje van Deemder, microbiologist and prize-winning cheese-maker, handcrafts goats and cows milk cheese – his Formosa goats milk cheese in ash and Gruyère won prizes at the 2007 World Cheese Awards in London. Lunch consists of straight-from-the-oven crusty bread, a pile of cheeses and a selection of salads made from Alje’s garden bounty. Whether you savour the soft mozzarella, creamy thyme-laden chevin or the well-matured sweet milk, textured with cumin seeds, you really can’t go wrong. Along with lunch, your host, the affable cheese-maker himself, is happy to fill you in on his fascinating craft. Most of what you eat (including the bread) is available to purchase and take home.
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