Paxton & Whitfield

18/08/2026

Seven days, seven cheeses, seven Great Taste winners 🌟

Inspired by our sell out Advent Calendar, A Week of Cheese is our year round way to discover something brilliant every day, complete with expert tasting notes to guide you through each cheese.

The 2026 Great Taste stars are in, so we’ve gone back to our counters and chosen a new line up from this year’s winners. If you’ve enjoyed A Week of Cheese before, there are seven more reasons to come back for another.

A Week of Cheese is £45 and available online now.

Plus, throughout August we’ve lowered our free delivery threshold to £35. Use code FREESHIPPING35 at checkout.

15/08/2026

There’s more to building a cheeseboard than simply hard, soft and blue.

We like to think in terms of what each cheese brings to the table instead: a proper crowd pleaser, a curve ball to make things interesting, and a kitchen staple you’ll be very happy to find still in the fridge the next day.

Some cheeses sit neatly in one camp. The best all-rounders manage to do a bit of everything.

So, how would you build yours?

Save this for your next cheeseboard and send it to the person you’d share it with!

14/08/2026

A very limited batch of something rather special.

Baron Bigod aux Poivres begins life at Fen Farm Dairy in Suffolk, where Jonny and Dulcie Crickmore make their celebrated Brie-style cheese. It arrives with us at just one week old, before its bloomy rind has fully developed.

The brainchild of our Quality Manager, Jazz Reeves, each young Baron Bigod is coated by hand with a carefully selected blend of peppercorns, ground using a pestle and mortar. Applied at this early stage, the pepper becomes part of the cheese as it matures, bringing aromatic warmth and texture to the rich, buttery paste beneath. Playing on the savoury, meaty and mushroom notes of the cheese with its natural creaminess, the addition of peppercorns making the cheese reminiscent of a delicious Steak aux Poivres, and thus Baron Bigod aux Poivres was born.

The cheese was originally created for the Academy of Cheese’s Affineur of the Year competition, where it was voted People’s Choice Best Soft Cheese in 2026.

This latest limited-edition batch has been made exclusively for our Cheese Club members, with just a very small amount available online and across our counters.

*This is a short clip from the exclusive tasting video we send out to our Cheese Club members each month.

If you want to try it, we wouldn’t hang about.

12/08/2026

A total eclipse is a rare thing.

A whole cheese disappearing? We see that rather more often!

Which cheese would disappear fastest from your cheeseboard?

11/08/2026

Anyone else feel like they’re melting this summer?

Luckily, your cheese doesn’t have to. All our cheeses are sent on a next-day delivery service, carefully packed with ice packs and sheep’s wool insulation to keep them cool on their journey to you.

And throughout August, enjoy free delivery when you spend £35, using code FREESHIPPING35 at checkout.

07/08/2026

Kinda chic since 1797

06/08/2026

Punch - new from Fen Farm Dairy

The hotly anticipated new cheese from the incredible makers behind modern British Classic Baron Bigod. Full disclosure, we have had this cheese in the business for a few weeks now but whenever and wherever it hits the counters it immediately sells out before we even manage to get a photograph!

An individual lactic, washed rind cheese, it will only be around for a few weeks each year. Made just in the summer months, the lusciously rich summer milk creates this punchy cheese. With notes of roast beef and bacon crisps, sweet hay and crème anglaise.

So, you very lucky people of Canterbury, just to let you know they’ve just hit the counter in our Palace Street shop and we do not expect them to be around for long!

Named after the Suffolk Punch horses that once worked the land surrounding Fen Farm, it celebrates the simple, sustaining farmhouse cheeses traditionally enjoyed by agricultural workers during harvest.

05/08/2026

A beautiful venue deserves a beautiful centrepiece.

Photographed in the stunning St James's Church, Piccadilly, just opposite our Jermyn Street shop, this is a wedding cake... the cheesemonger's way.

Whether you'd love to create a bespoke cheese tower with one of our expert cheesemongers or prefer the ease of ordering one of our curated cheese towers online, we'll help you find the perfect centrepiece for your celebration.

Our online cheese towers have been thoughtfully curated by our cheesemongers and are designed around different party sizes, taking the guesswork out of choosing cheeses and working out how much you'll need. If you'd like something truly personal, book a tasting appointment in one of our shops and we'll build a tower just for you.

We're already taking bookings for 2027, and if your wedding is a little sooner, we can often accommodate last minute tasting appointments. We buy cheese directly from artisan cheesemakers every week so there's always plenty of (delicious) choice.

Send this to the cheese lover planning a wedding. They might just find their perfect cake.

30/07/2026

If your courgette plant has gone from “nothing yet" to “what am I supposed to do with all of these?", you're not alone.

Whether you're harvesting from the garden or returning from the farmers' market with armfuls of beautiful summer produce (and perhaps a few more courgettes than you intended), this is the season to make the most of them.

Straight from our cheesemongers' own kitchens, we've shared four recipes featuring Sparkenhoe Red Leicester, Corra Linn, Mayfield and Paxton's fresh Goat's cheese with Garlic & Herb

From a golden quiche that's just as delicious straight from the oven for supper as it is packed up for a picnic the next day, to indulgent stuffed courgette flowers, these are the recipes we genuinely return to every summer.

Because if there's one thing we've learnt as cheesemongers, the answer to almost any glut of seasonal vegetables is simple: just add cheese.

Find all four recipes via the link in our bio.

27/07/2026