L'Atelier Fromager

French-style cheese maker and shop using locally sourced raw milk from central Texas.

L'Atelier Fromager, which translates to The Cheese Workshop, is an urban creamery making French-style cheeses in Waco, Texas. Owner and cheesemaker Kirsten Schubel was born in France and trained as a medical doctor before channeling her scientific background into the craft of cheese making. Our lineup includes aged tomme-style wheels, bloomy ashed rinds, washed-rind cheeses, and flavored varieties such as the cumin tomme. One signature cheese, Act of Love, is a semi-hard pressed wheel aged two months and rind-washed with Act of Faith, a beer from local Brotherwell Brewery. We sell at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market and through our online store, and we host cheese-making classes and tasting events both on-site and in partnership with other local businesses.

We make our cheeses with locally sourced raw milk from central Texas farmers who tend their land and cattle in ways that produce milk comparable in quality to what is available in France, while reflecting the Texas terroir. Kirsten continues to develop her cheese-making skills by learning from a local cheesemaker as well as from makers around the world, and she applies her scientific background to working with the micro-organisms at each stage of production. Our cheeses are aged, ranging from soft bloomy rinds ripened two to three weeks to semi-hard pressed wheels aged two months or more. Where noted, some varieties use pasteurized milk.