Three more little beauties to get your gobbling chops around this weekend.

Truffled Coulommiers

These rich and creamy brie-like cheeses have been maturing with their truffled filling for a week now, and they’re just about perfect. So ripe they’re oozing, with a gentle tanginess of their own, there’s a good whack of pungent truffle aroma going on too.

Fleur du Maquis

It may not look much like spring yet, but it’s springtime in our hearts. Fleur du maquis is a wonderful light ewe’s milk cheese from Corsica. It’s full of fresh milky flavours, offset by a thick crust of herbs.

Bonnet

After a big Easter lunch, Bonnet is a great way to end the meal. A firm goat’s milk cheese from Ayrshire, Scotland, it has a gentle tang, but remains wonderfully fresh and light in flavour.

We've started a new blog, full of lots of tasty, exciting and interesting foodie things we have instore, as well as all the other things that happen in our shop. And, well, pretty much anything else that occurs to us, really. Check it out at: http://mortimerandbennett.tumblr.com/

Hard as we might try to fight it, there's a definite spirit of hibernation about the shop in the aftermath of the Christmas onslaught. Demand is subdued, the weather is rubbish, so while we keep the shelves stocked and the shop tidy, we tend to simply tick over through January and February, waiting hopefully for our customers to return. 

By the time March rolls around, our sap is rising, and we're raring to go. We've just returned from a trip to the Salon du Fromage in Paris, and we have a basketload of new cheeses to share with you over the coming months. Our Easter stock is now in, and the shelves are groaning under the weight of novelty-shaped chocolates. And we'll soon have our potted herbs back for the spring: they're a wonderfully varied mix of old favourites and unusual varieties (Pineapple sage? Chocolate mint? Hyssop?), and they're fantastic value, too. We'll keep you posted on when they arrive, and we'll add some photos to the site - they make a great addition to the front of the shop.

Our Easter range is now available online - some classics such as Bonnat's sensational filled hen's egg, and some novelties like Kreutzkamm's hyper-kitsch Easter bunny: proof positive that there is absolutely nothing wrong with Germans' sense of humour.

Enjoy, browse away, and do come and visit us when you're in Chiswick - we'd love to show you around.