This place produces an excellent Gouda Cheese, from straight ahead gouda to smoked to herb infused and it is all of a superb quality. We stopped on our way home from a vacation up Sonora Pass a few years ago. We had not been back since then until this last weekend and found that everything was still just as good. We also picked up a REALLY good sour dough baquette. We picked up some Onion Quark, too. I'd read about quark but had not tasted it before. It's like a spread with a good tang to it and we found it different and fun. They have a nice, shaded area for picnicing, a fenced off area displaying some of their livestock, a pond and a dog run area which can be very handy when traveling with your pet. Remember, they did not have to provide the dog run so please clean up after your pet. It makes it nicer for the owners and the next users. If you're headed through town and like a good cheese you have to check this place out, even if you don't have a dog.
In Oakdale for a night, and saw this on Yelp and since we are cheese lovers, popped in! They have nice picnic grounds with pond, ducks, animals to feed, and a little cheese shop with samples. We bought the Quark Sun-dried Tomato spread- yummy! We looked for the grilled cheese sandwiches but didn’t see it advertised inside and didn’t ask. We went to the nearby Grocery outlet for some crackers for our new spread. Nice place to stop and relax a bit in a busy little town.
We stopped here because it looked so cute. The Gouda cheese is very good, but the customer service is terrible. I felt like the gal that checked us out would rather be any where but there helping us
This is a family owned and operated business. Not very big, but has great cheese and amazing people who work there.
The cheese making is shut down on weekends, so you only get to look through windows and guess. The grilled cheese sandwiches made a decent snack, but the cheese samples were each about 1/8" square, barely enough to taste. The best part was the beautiful grounds with the pond and the animals (even though you could not actually go into their enclosure, the goats were funny. I would not drive more than 10 minutes out of my way to go here.
Great place to take the family to see how cheese is made. They have live animals out back and really nice gardens. Elementary schools in the area always visit this wonderful place on field trips.
Almost passed it by but made a quick turn to investigate and glad we did. Family-run business with samples of most products.Please stop to buy some gouda. Must also try the quark from their original Dutch recipe.
Every time we go through Oakdale, on the way to the Bay area from Yosemite, we have to stop to feed the goats and llama and chickens and of course get a grilled cheese sandwich. This last time we had delicious tomato soup with our sandwiches. The outside picnic tables are next to the little lake with giant koi and a weeping willow for shade. Its just a fun little place to see how cheese is made, taste samples and let the kids run around. It is just south of town on the highway and open most of the time. It is a family run business which always makes me feel better than spending money on a fast food megachain.
First of all we love the cheese and place. My daughter who has autism loves the animals. She can spend hours feeding and petting them. The Koi pond is beautiful. Always able to find unique gifts in the store too.
OK. To be honest, I have not been inside this Cheese Factory, because most locals decided to Boycott the place when they cut down many of the trees that used to line both sides of the highway just before they built the place - without permission. Those trees were OLD and we really loved them, and they are gone forever because they wanted to make sure people would see their new business while driving by. So, as far as I know, the locals all boycott to this day. You can boycott too if you'd like. But the one thing I had from there was a grilled Gouda cheese sandwich picked up by a friend once and brought to my house, and it wasn't very good.