Where to buy great cheese outside Paris?

[dfunghi]

Forgive my ignorance of Anthony Cheeses, where besides an expensive restaurant might one find these? Does Anthony (or whomever is the person behind the name) have a shop?

TIA

David

[julot-les-pinceaux]

The only place outside restaurant is the shop in Vieux Ferrette, which as you know is next to Ferrette, south of Alsace, 20km SW of Basel. He also has a truck that he takes to neighbouring villages.

Otherwise, expensive restaurants only, such as l'Arpège, Alain Ducasse, Les Ambassadeurs, Ledoyen, Dieter Müller, Tantris, Köingshof in Munich, Schwarzwaldstube or Manresa.

[dfunghi]

That is not too far from where I will be in Italy (Torino). Only a 5 hour drive. I have done worse for far less greatness. Maybe I need to schedule an overnight to France. That brings up a couple of other questions.

How hard is traversing the Suisse border (with non EU passport) since I need to cross in and out and back in and back out 4 times to go from Torino to Basel. Is it same for all non Suisse passports or do EU get fast track? Monday is my only free day (so far) and I could head up on Sunday and spend all Monday doing things (like eating and buying cheese) so do we know if Anthony is open on a Monday morning? Without time to include Burgundy or anything else too major are there interesting and unique diversions in between Aosta and Basel? I have never been past the Aosta area (Cogne).

TIA

DAvid

[nibor]

That is not too far from where I will be in Italy (Torino). Only a 5 hour drive. I have done worse for far less greatness.  Maybe I need to schedule an overnight to France. That brings up a couple of other questions.

How hard is traversing the Suisse border (with non EU passport) since I need to cross in and out and back in and back out 4 times to go from Torino to Basel. Is it same for all non Suisse passports or do EU get fast track? Monday is my only free day (so far) and I could head up on Sunday and spend all Monday doing things (like eating and buying cheese) so do we know if Anthony is open on a Monday morning? Without time to include Burgundy or anything else too major are there interesting and unique diversions in between Aosta and Basel? I have never been past the Aosta area (Cogne).

TIA

DAvid

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We drove in and out of Switzerland numerous times in the last year (from Germany and Austria) and never even had to stop at the border. We are Americans. Our car had French plates.

[John Talbott]

Can anyone recommend a good cheese in Paris shop, even if Anthony's cheeses are not sold there?  Apologies for the thread drift.

thanks in advance.

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