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This is primarily a cheese shop with a large walk-in cheese room dominating the frontage, in [[Locale Marylebone|Marylebone]].  However, it is also a delicatessen stocking fresh fruit and vegetables and a wide variety of dry goods, as well as a small "tasting cafe".

Breakfast/brunch is served in the morning, lunch from 12:30pm, and afternoon tea from 2:30pm.  They also have an all-day food menu.  Last orders for food are half an hour before closing time.

The cafe area is mostly at the back of the premises, well-lit by a skylight, and comprises a long table seating 12 people in fairly close-packed company, as well as three two-person tables along the right-hand wall.  They've also opened up an area to the front of the premises, by the street.  On [[Ewan]]'s February 2008 visit, before the extra space was added, it was full at 12:30pm, and though space became free fairly quickly there were more people waiting, so expect to be squashed in.  It also means that there's a slightly frenetic feel to the place.

The menu is available online and (unsurprisingly) favours cheese-based dishes.  Meat is provided by the neighbouring charcuterie, the Ginger Pig.  The centrepiece of the lunch menu is the cheese plate, which is available either small (around &pound;7.50) or large (around &pound;12.50).  This came with five cheeses (all of which are given a full write-up on the reverse of the daily menu), and some apple and raisins for cleansing the palate.  It is served with a pile of lovely fresh bread on a board, and a tray of butter.  All of the cheeses (a goat's cheese, two soft cheeses, a blue cheese and a firmer, cheddar-like cheese) were, as you'd expect, robust well-flavoured and interesting, and for fans of cheese I'd strongly recommend this option.

My eating companion had the ploughman's lunch, which came with a large chunk of pork pie which was very well-received, a fresh salad, some home-made pickle and a good amount of cheese.

There is a fairly large wine-list with food-matching suggestions.  For the cheese plate, they suggest the house red (around &pound;16 for a bottle), which turned out to be really quite excellent, although it didn't quite go with all the cheeses on offer, but that's no great problem.

They also have [[La Fromagerie, N5 2AA|another shop]] (but not cafe) in [[Locale Highbury|Highbury]].

See also:
* [http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/smile-and-say-cheese-at-la-fromagerie-7413895.html Evening Standard review] (by David Sexton)
* [http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/la-fromagerie Time Out review]
* [http://londonbrunchreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/la-fromagerie-marylebone.html Brunch Book Club review]
* [http://debbiedoesdining.typepad.com/debbie-does-dining/2010/06/the-brunch-files-la-fromagerie-marylebone.html Debbie Does Dining review]
* [http://www.passportdelicious.com/2008/08/la-fromagerie-m.html Passport Delicious review]
* [http://londontastin.com/post/45669631041/la-fromagerie-cheese-shop-and-tasting London Tastin' review]
* [https://www.chowhound.com/post/dulce-de-leche-ice-cream-la-fromagerie-marylebone-london-655130 Chowhound thread]
* [https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/la-fromagerie-london-2 Yelp comments]

<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Ewan]] and Melissa, February 2008.  Food times taken from website, March 2008.</div>

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