Christmas Delivery
With the current COVID-19 situation, our couriers are expecting an unusually high number of deliveries in the run up to Christmas this year. While we'll be striving to operate a next day delivery service and meet your preferred delivery dates, we recommend that you aim to have your cheese delivered as early as possible and not wait until a few days before Christmas.
Here at The East London Cheese Board we specialise in the best of British cheeses, especially those from smaller, hard to find dairies. We also stock cheeses from France, Spain, Italy and more, but our focus is very much on the finest cheeses that Britain has to offer. From raw milk Suffolk bries, to truffled Camemberts from Cornwall to silky ewe's milk blues from Scotland, we have them all and more for you to conveniently buy online. We also love putting together custom cheese selections and have a few to choose from, but also welcome requests for bespoke cheese hampers.
Cheese Selection boxes
Here you'll find our most popular cheese selections. We have all manner for cheese selection boxes to choose from, including British, French, Welsh, etc., we even have a special selection we've put together for new mums who have been craving cheese but unable to eat some types during pregnancy. Our cheese subscription, 'Cheese Club' is also proving popular and you can sign up for 3 months, 6 months or 12 months and have a great selection of cheeses delivered to your door each month.
Large Christmas Cheese Selection
A bumper package of great cheese to bring a smile to everyone's face at Christmas
£60.00
Medium Christmas Cheese Selection
A superb selection of Christmas cheese for true cheese lovers
£39.00
Best of British Cheese Selection
The Best of British selection contains Baron Bigod brie, Colston Bassett Stilton, Cornish Yarg and Quickes Cheddar
£30.00
Most Popular Cheese Selection
This cheese selection box is full of our most popular cheeses. When you taste them you'll see why.
£29.00
Most Popular
This is a selection of our current, most popular cheeses. This changes on a seasonal basis as popularity changes with the weather. You'll pretty much always find, Carboncino, Baron Bigod and Stinking Bishop on this list though.
Vintage Lincolnshire Poacher
Beautiful hard cheese from Lincolnshire, which is like a cross between mature cheddar and Comté.
From £6.75
Baron Bigod
Baron Bigod, a beautiful, unpasteurised English farmhouse brie from Bungay, Suffolk. This cheese takes the classic French Brie de Meaux and adds another dimension.
From £8.00
Beauvale
From Cropwell Bishop Stilton, Beauvale is a soft blue cheese influenced by Gorgonzola Dolce. It won 'Best Blue Cheese' at the 2017 British Cheese Awards.
From £7.95
Carboncino
Carboncino is a delicious soft Italian cheese made from cow, sheep and goats milk. One of our most popular cheeses online and in store.
£6.50
Langres
Langres is a semi-soft, totally delicious and strikingly beautiful washed-rind cheese from the Champagne region of France.
£7.95
Stinking Bishop
Stinking Bishop is a world famous strong, soft cheese from Gloucestershire. It is the wonderful combination of mousse like texture, distinctive pink rind and powerful flavour that make Stinking Bishop a must have on a cheeseboard.
From £9.50
Westcombe Cheddar
Westcombe Cheddar is a deliciously smooth Cheddar with lovely nutty, earthy flavours. It's recently won 'Best Cheddar' in the 2017 and 2018 British Cheese Awards.
From £5.95
Petit Valencay
Light and chalky goats cheese for France with distinctive truncated pyramid shape.
£5.50
Cheese of the week
Renegade Monk
Renegade Monk, from Feltham's Farm in Somerset, is a soft, lightly blue cheese, which is also washed in ale.
£11.00
Come visit us
We're more than just a website and online cheese shop! If you're in the area, pop in to our shop and cafe, Froth & Rind in Walthamstow, London and say hi. As well as cheese, crackers, chutney and all the usual accompaniments, we serve locally roasted coffee, cakes and pastries as well as our amazing cheese toasties. Just imagine a toastie with Fourme d'Ambert and sticky fig jam or a classic melty Raclette with serrano ham. We stock a wide range of craft beer too, as well as a range of tasty local produce such as gin, jams, bread and cider.
Cheese news
Keep up to date with what we've been doing and what's new in the world of cheese.
Best of British Cheese
We love cheese of all descriptions, from all corners of the globe but we're extra passionate about British cheese and work hard to bring you the best of British cheese from the classic stiltons and cheddars to some of the more unusual and harder to find cheeses. Keep an eye on our site and we'll keep bringing you more and more fantastic British cheeses.
Colston Bassett Stilton
Rich and buttery, a classic English Stilton and still one of the finest cheeses available.
From £7.00
Minger
NEW! Minger is a silky soft, strong Scottish cheese with pungent washed rind, superb flavour and fantastic name.
£10.00
Oxford Isis
Oxford Isis is a strong, washed-rind soft cheese from Oxfordshire similar in style to Epoisses.
£9.25
Best Sellers
When it comes to buying cheese online, the list below contains our best sellers. Every so often another cheese has a bit of a run and infiltrates the top 10 but these great cheeses consistently out perform the rest. Classic cheddars, creamy blues and a few soft and strong beauties, there's a reason why they sell so well.
Vintage Lincolnshire Poacher
Beautiful hard cheese from Lincolnshire, which is like a cross between mature cheddar and Comté.
From £6.75
Baron Bigod
Baron Bigod, a beautiful, unpasteurised English farmhouse brie from Bungay, Suffolk. This cheese takes the classic French Brie de Meaux and adds another dimension.
From £8.00
Beauvale
From Cropwell Bishop Stilton, Beauvale is a soft blue cheese influenced by Gorgonzola Dolce. It won 'Best Blue Cheese' at the 2017 British Cheese Awards.
From £7.95
Carboncino
Carboncino is a delicious soft Italian cheese made from cow, sheep and goats milk. One of our most popular cheeses online and in store.
£6.50
Langres
Langres is a semi-soft, totally delicious and strikingly beautiful washed-rind cheese from the Champagne region of France.
£7.95
Stinking Bishop
Stinking Bishop is a world famous strong, soft cheese from Gloucestershire. It is the wonderful combination of mousse like texture, distinctive pink rind and powerful flavour that make Stinking Bishop a must have on a cheeseboard.
From £9.50
Westcombe Cheddar
Westcombe Cheddar is a deliciously smooth Cheddar with lovely nutty, earthy flavours. It's recently won 'Best Cheddar' in the 2017 and 2018 British Cheese Awards.
From £5.95
Petit Valencay
Light and chalky goats cheese for France with distinctive truncated pyramid shape.
£5.50
More cheese news
What is rennet?
We often get asked what rennet is and how it fits into cheesemaking. The answer is that rennet is a vital part of cheesemaking and also provides the difference between vegetarian and non-vegetarian cheeses.
Washed-Rind Cheeses
If you like a smelly cheese, chances are it's a washed rind cheese as this type is famous for its pungency.
Warming Winter Cheeses
When it's cold outside, there's nothing better than a strong cheese to blow the chills away.
Travelling with cheese
Now that the weather is getting a little warmer we give some advice on travelling with cheese, so that you can ensure that you arrive at your destination with the cheese in good condition and don't stink out other passengers should you be travelling by train or plane.