Puhoi Valley Cafe & Cheese Store

The Puhoi Valley Café & Cheese Store is an exciting attraction in Puhoi.

Visitors to the café can enjoy all of their favourite Puhoi Valley cheeses as well as a premium restaurant range of specialty cheese, crafted only for the café by Puhoi Valley cheese maker, Stevan Arme. Also on offer is the delicious range of Puhoi Valley Yoghurts, and visitors can enjoy them frozen, as ice cream.

The Puhoi Valley Café and Cheese Store features viewing windows into the factory so cheese lovers can see the cheese-making process first hand. Another exciting feature of the café is the new Cheese Room where Puhoi Valley cheese makers store and mature the cheeses created on site. The Cheese Room features glass fronts where visitors can view and taste the range of Puhoi Valley cheeses at different stages of maturity. This includes the Puhoi Valley Distinction Blue, a creamy, spicy and sweet blue cheese, which is matured for four weeks and then dipped in a dark wax, which helps to develop the sweet, creamy flavour. it can then be stored and enjoyed for another 18 weeks.

Opening hours

For more information:

• visit Puhoi Valley Café & Cheese Store on Facebook or
• call on 09 422 0670