Monteverde Cheese Factory Shop
Local shop · Monteverde
The dairy founded by Monteverde's Quaker settlers in 1953 still sells its cheeses at the factory shop, along with ice cream in flavors like coffee, soursop and macadamia.
- Cost
- Free
- Time there
- 20 min
- Best time
- afternoon
- Kids
- 9 / 10
- View
- 2 / 10
- Crowds
- 5 / 10
- Swimming
- 0 / 10
- Effort
- 0 / 10
- Location
- 10.3051, -84.80878 — Google Maps
Tip
Grab a cone and a wedge of the semi-hard Monteverde cheese for a picnic.
Be careful
Carry small bills in colones; keep an eye on bags and phones in busy areas.
Places nearby
- Stella's Monteverde Bakery & CaféFood & CoffeeBakery opened in 1992 by English-born Stella Wallace, now a breakfast and lunch café across from the CASEM crafts co-op, using local cheeses and house bread.
- Hotel Fonda VelaStaysHillside cloud-forest hotel near the Monteverde reserve.
- Restaurante La Cuchara de la Abuela (CASEM)Food & CoffeeCooperative-run kitchen at CASEM, the women's craft co-op, serving typical plates and handmade corn tortillas.
- The Bat JungleParks & WildlifeIndoor bat exhibit designed by bat biologist Dr.
- El Establo Mountain HotelStays · from $253Mountain hotel in Monteverde with its own 65-hectare cloud forest reserve.
- Pizzería e Ristorante TramontiFood & CoffeeFamily-run Italian restaurant since 1993 (founded by an Italian and Costa Rican couple), with a wood-fired oven, house-made ravioli and lasagna and a glass-and-timber dining room above the valley.
Sources: OpenStreetMap way/1038143408 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1038143408 · https://delfino.cr/2024/06/quesos-monteverde-celebra-70-anos-de-historia-entretejida-con-la-comunidad-en-el-bosque-nuboso · https://www.estudiohispanico.com/blog/2017/11/22/fun-facts-the-origins-of-monteverde/